FRANCES FENTON (LYTTON) 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com TEACHING and EDUCATION FRANCES FENTON (LYTTON) is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and has a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Houston (also summa cum laude). Before coming to HCC, she also taught at the Musikschule Offenbach while performing. She became a full-time faculty member in 2013 and has taught the following courses at HCC: Ear Training and Sight-Singing I & II English Diction (Special topics) French Diction German Diction Music Appreciation Music Fundamentals Class Piano I Piano I – Private Lessons Special Topics Ensemble Voice Class for Non-Majors Voice – All Levels BIOGRAPHY FRANCES FENTON, a native of Texas, has sung leading and featured roles with the Zürich Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, Opera Mobile (UK, Zürich), the San Antonio Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Central City Colorado Opera, and Opera Classics of New Jersey, among others. A much-requested soloist in concert and oratorio performances, she has performed with orchestras throughout the world, including the Akademisches Orchester (Zürich), the Rundfunkorchester des Hessischen Rundfunks (Frankfurt), the Südwestrundfunkorchester (Baden-Baden & Karlsruhe), the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra do Estado do São Paulo, the Pilsener Jugendorchester, the Thalwil Kammerorchester, the Houston Chamber Orchestra, the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra (Texas and Mexico), and the Bay Area Chorus and Orchestra. Miss FENTON has been televised in four continents, singing as a featured artist on Hessischer Rundfunk 3 Germany, on Südwestrundfunk Germany, on TRT International broadcast from Turkey, on Rede Televisão Cultura Brazil, on AFN Europe, and on "Voice of America: Radio Broadcasts to Europe and South America". She has also appeared on Public Broadcasting in the U.S., as well as KUHT in Texas. All her most recent appearances have been either televised live or recorded for later broadcasts and archives. www.francesfenton.com FRANCES FENTON (LYTTON) 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com As a recitalist, Miss FENTON's appearances include a Liederabend at the Alte Oper in celebration of the 1200th Birthday of the City of Frankfurt, where she was the only American invited to perform. Miss FENTON has also performed in several chamber music concerts at the Frankfurt Opera, and at Amerika Haus, where she is included in a book listing distinguished performers from its 50-year history. Miss FENTON performed in recital at the Palmengarten. In one of her first engagements, Miss FENTON was asked to inaugurate the Central City Opera Recital Series. Recently, she has also been broadcast live from the Moores Opera House and the Houston Public Library. Miss FENTON has sung benefit concerts for the National and University Library of Sarajevo and for the victims of the Turkish earthquake, sponsored by UNICEF, in Vienna and Frankfurt. With a live television performance, Miss FENTON sang the first concert in the year-long celebration of the First German Parliament (1848) in the Paulskirche, at the invitation of the Chancellor of Germany. Miss FENTON has sung world premiere performances of "Sweeney Agonistes" by John Cook and "The Face on the Barroom Floor" by Henry Mollicone. She is a singer of choice of the American composers John David Earnest and Richard Hundley and has sung American premiers of chamber works by Donald Joyce and Sanchie Bobrow. Miss FENTON's appearances have taken her to Amsterdam, Ankara, Denver, Glasgow, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janiero, Vienna, Sao Paulo, and many major cities throughout Germany. In one year, she sang three different Liederabends in Frankfurt alone. She was also a featured soloist for the Yale Glee Club's European Tour. Miss FENTON has also appeared in Frankfurt's Mousonturm and toured as "The Voice" in Helena Waldmann's Circuit. She was invited to perform this role at the Copenhagen International Theatre Festival. Miss FENTON has also appeared at Theater Under the Stars. Miss FENTON appeared on a live broadcast by KRTS in the Houston Public Library’s Second Wednesdays Live, as Liliane La Fleur in the Moores Opera House production of Nine, and was featured performing Die Winterreise. She performed in Istambul, Berlin, Munich Tel Aviv, and Vienna as a Cultural Ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Her future plans include recitals and several world premieres by Houston composers. Curriculum Vitae 2000 – Present Houston, Texas www.francesfenton.com FRANCES FENTON (LYTTON) 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com Full-Time Professor Music Faculty - Houston Community College – 2013 to present Voice, Diction Studies (Italian, German, French, English), IPA for Singers, Music Fundamentals Piano Class, Applied Piano, American Music, Music Appreciation Voice Teacher – Memorial Music Voice Teacher – The Musician’s Academy Recording Studio from inception in 2001-2005 All levels, from young beginners to professionals Community Activities/Services President – Houston Tuesday Musical Club Founder/Artistic Director – Third Millenium Voices, a vocal recital series Houston Chapter Member – The Voice Foundation – Charter Member Board Member – Greater Houston NATS Chapter World Aids Day Candlelight Services – Soprano Soloist (broadcast KUHF) Producer /Director – Country Music Benefit For Widows, Firehouse Saloon (Houston Fire Department Beneficiaries Producer/Advisor – “The Three of We” Scholarship Concert SAI Music Fraternity Alumnae member – charitable work throughout Houston area Recent and Upcoming Appearances Fall, 2018 – Opening of The Coleman Tower – Houston Medical Center – Featured Vocalist Fall, 2018 – “F & J: All Broadway” – Jim Vukovich, piano Spring, 2018 – “American Music Recital – From the Revolution to the 21st Century” – Keith Weber, Piano Faculty Honors Recital - Houston Summer, 2017 – Friday Afternoon Recitals – New Songs and Lieder Spring, 2017 – Joint Voice Recital with Dr. Seong Shin Ra, Soprano and Dr. Yoogin Lee and www.francesfenton.com FRANCES FENTON (LYTTON) 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com James Vukovich, pianos Spring 2017 – “The Music of Roger Keele” – Roger Keele, Piano Fall, 2015 – World Premiere - Lead” 40-minute song cycle for soprano and piano trio Spring, 2014 – “E[itaphs” – Joseph Lo Cascio Fall, 2013 – Texoma NATS Presentation with Dr. Roger Keele Spring, 2013 – Arias for Dramatic Soprano – Dr. Roy Wylie Fall, 2012 – World Premiere- “Ludmilla and the Three Tenors” – written for Ms. Fenton – soprano and saxophone quartet, Dr. Allyson Applebaum Wells, composer Spring, 2012 – World Premiere “Psalms: For Soprano & Orchestra” written for Ms. Fenton – Istanbul Festival Winter, 2012 – Artist and Director, 100th Artist Concert “An Opera Extravaganza” Tuesday Musical Club Summer 2011 – Film – Die Winterreise Spring, 2011 – Featured Artist, Tuesday Musical Club 100th Year Gala Fall, 2010 – World Premiere - St. Cecilia Chamber Music Concert – “Six Seasonal Songs”, “Epitaphs” Spring, 2010 – “Lyric America: Frances Fenton in Recital” Spring, 2009 – Cultural Ambassador – U.S. & Turkish State Departments – Germany Winter, 2009 - Die Winterreise with William Vendice, Metropolitan & Los Angeles Opera Fall, 2008 - McNeese State University – Guest Artist & Master Class Clinician Summer, 2008 – Lone Star Lyric Festival “Operetta Mit Schlag” Winter, 2008 – First performance of Die Winterreise by an American soprano Summer, 2007 – Series of Recitals in Germany with Roland Boer, Conductor April, 2007 – American Arias – SAI Celebrates America January, 2007 – 19th Century Women Composers October, 2006 – “(Relatively) Unknown Verdi Arias” March, 2006 – “Friends, Rivals, Siblings” with Joanna Gaines, Roger Keele Third Millennium Voices Concert Spring, 2005 – Cultural Ambassador - “A Celebration of American Music” – U.S. State Department Concerts Bar-Ilan University, and Weil Recital Hall, Kfar Shmaryahu Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Lena Gershuni, Pianist, The New Israeli National Opera Master Classes for Ashdod Chamber Opera, Ashdod, Israel April 2005 - “American Art Songs and Arias” – Palmengarten, Frankfurt a.Main, Germany May 2005 - Opera Rediviva – Lady Macbeth scenes and arias – Houston, Texas Professional Affiliations www.francesfenton.com FRANCES FENTON (LYTTON) 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com NATS National Member Actors’ Equity Eligible Performer GdBH Member (German Musicians’ Union) Guest Judge – NAT); Resident Head Judge – NATS Houston Joint Master Classes with Katherine Ciesinski Judge – Opera Pacific, CA – Laila Conlon Vocal Competition (2 times) Judge – Sigma Alpha Iota Katie Dixie Vocal Scholarship (2 times) Judge – Ruth Burr Vocal Competition Head Judge Master Class and Recital – Orange County High School for the Arts – Orange, CA Master Class and Recital – Laguna Niguel, California Sigma Alpha Iota Performing Member Soprano Soloist – Ascension Episcopal Church Soprano Soloist – St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Tuesday Musical Club Performing Member The Voice Foundation – Houston Chapter, Founding Member www.francesfenton.com FRANCES FENTON 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com Houston Community College Performances Houston Community College Numerous Faculty Recitals Grand Opening Concert – Performing