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YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM
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KATHERINE KOZAK Phoenix, Arizona
Glimmerglass 2023: Chorus Director for La bohème, Candide, and Romeo and Juliet.
Past Head of Music, Chorus Master, Principal Coach of the Pullin Opera Studio, Arizona Opera (ongoing); Chorus Director, The Glimmerglass Festival.
KATHRYN LABOUFF Englewood, New Jersey
Glimmerglass 2023: Diction Coach for Candide.
Past: Diction Coach, The Magic Flute Cinderella, Hamlet, The Hours, El Niño Metropolitan Opera; Diction Coach, Sweeney Todd Showboat, The Cunning Little Vixen West Side Story, The Crucible, Blue Silent Night, The Ghosts of Versailles The Sound of Music, Taking Up Serpents Holy Ground, The Glimmerglass Festival; Die Fledermaus, Candide, Doctor Atomic, Ariadne auf Naxos, Santa Fe Opera.
GRANT WENAUS New York, New York
Glimmerglass 2023: Principal Coach for Candide.
Past: Principal Coach, The Sound of Music, Songbird, Kiss Me, Kate, Sweeney Todd, Camelot, Candide, The Glimmerglass Festival; Conductor, The Magic Flute, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Merry Widow, Ragtime, City of Angels, The Light in the Piazza, NYU Steinhardt; Conductor, Of Thee I Sing, A Little Night Music, Anything Goes, University of Michigan.
CARLOS AHRENS Cincinnati, Ohio
Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble and Cacambo
(cover) in Candide; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet
Past: Ferrando, Così fan tutte Vanderbilt Opera Theatre; The Mayor, Albert Herring, Vanderbilt Opera Theatre; Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, Trentino Music Festival; Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; The First Commissioner, Dialogues des Carmélites, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Future: Tenor Soloist, The Creation, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
HENRY BENSON Madison, Wisconsin
Glimmerglass 2023: Minister/Ensemble in Candide; Prune Man/Ensemble and Parpignol (cover) in La bohème
Past: Timothy Laughlin, Fellow Travelers, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Artist-in-Residence, Dayton Opera; Orville/ Wilbur Wright (cover), Finding Wright, Dayton Opera; Cincinnati Opera Chorus, Cincinnati Opera; Fenton, Falstaff Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music.
LAURA BLEAKLEY Honolulu, Hawaii
Glimmerglass 2023: Pianist/Coach for Candide and Romeo and Juliet.
Past: Gerdine Young Artist, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Resident Artist, Utah Opera; Festival Artist, Opera Saratoga.
Future: Resident Artist, Utah Opera.
KAILEE BRANDT Honolulu, Hawaii
Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble/Dancer in Candide and La bohème; Dancer in Love & War
Past: Mersister/Gull/Ensemble, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Syracuse Stage; Amina, Dance Nation Syracuse Department of Drama; Cameron Ross, Hawaii Five-O. kaileereganbrandt.com
JUSTIN BURGESS Silver Spring, Maryland
Glimmerglass 2023: Schaunard in La bohème; Martin/James (cover) in Candide Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet.
Past: Schaunard (Young Artist), La bohème, Washington National Opera; Steuermann, Tristan und Isolde, Santa Fe Opera; Ty, A Thousand Acres (workshop), Des Moines Metro Opera; Cardinal 2/Servant/Oracle 2, Galileo Galilei, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Count Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Fiorello, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Wolf Trap Opera. justinburgessbaritone.com
BRIDGET CAPPEL Dallas, Texas
Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in La bohème; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet; Rinaldo (cover) in Rinaldo.
Past: Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Shreveport Opera; Flora, La traviata, Shreveport Opera; La Poésie, Les Arts Florissants The Dallas Bach Society; Toypurina, Zorro, Fort Worth Opera; Soloist, The Magic of Opera Opera Mississippi/ The Natchez Festival of Music; Mercédès and Carmen (cover), Carmen, Kentucky Opera; Paquette, Candide, Des Moines Metro Opera. bridgetcappel.com
Nathanial Catasca
Fort Worth, Texas
Glimmerglass 2023: Grand Inquisitor/ Governor (cover) in Candide, Ensemble in La bohème and Romeo and Juliet.
Past: King Kaspar, Amahl & The Night Visitors Fort Worth Opera; Donald Woods/Big Mike, Stand Up, Fort Worth Opera; Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus Central City Opera; Nemorino/ Tamino, The Magic Victrola, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Barigoule in Cendrillon (Viardot), The Florentine Opera.
Future: Messenger, Aida, Fort Worth Opera.
MARIA NICOLE DE CONZO
Oradell, New Jersey
Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in La bohème; Ensemble and Gertrude (cover) in Romeo and Juliet.
Past: Alisa, Lucia di Lammermoor Druid City Opera; Charlotte, Werther, William Jewell College; Beggar Woman, Sweeney Todd Opera Saratoga; Danny (cover), Sky on Swings, Opera Saratoga; Berta (cover), Il barbiere di Siviglia Opera Saratoga; Elizabeth Cree, Elizabeth Cree William Jewell College.
Future: Third Lady, The Magic Flute, Nashville Opera.
TAYLOR-ALEXIS DUPONT Orlando, Florida
Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in La bohème Ensemble and Stéphano (cover) in Romeo and Juliet; Audrey in The Rip Van Winkles
Past: Phoebe, The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, Washington National Opera; Gabriel, Holy Ground, The Glimmerglass Festival; Flora, La traviata, Virginia Opera; Moth, Midsummer Night’s Dream Santa Fe Opera.
Future: Flora, La traviata Florida Grand Opera; Musetta, La bohème, Florida Grand Opera. taylor-alexis.com
KEELY FUTTERER Dover, Arizona
Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble/Baroness/ Vanderdendur and Cunegonde (cover) in Candide; Armida in Rinaldo.
Past: Armida, Rinaldo Minnesota Opera; Angostura Iabelle, Tenor Overboard, The Glimmerglass Festival; Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, Opera Memphis; Maya, The Companion, Opera Memphis; Rose, At the Staute of Venus Opera Memphis.
Future: Musetta, La bohème, Minnesota Opera; Léontine, The Anonymous Lover, Madison Opera. keelyfutterer.com
MICAH GLEASON Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Glimmerglass 2023: Assistant Conductor for Candide and Rinaldo.
Past: Assistant Conductor, The Cunning Little Vixen, Bard Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Conservatory of Music; Conducting Fellow, Curtis Institute of Music. Conductor/Music Director, The Final Veil The Cell Theater; Conductor, Julia Perry’s A Short Piece for Orchestra Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Verizon Hall Kimmel Center. micahgleason.com
