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LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE 2022 ATLAS

S U M M E R F E S T I V A L J U N E 13 - A U G U S T 6

LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE The Music Academy introduces the LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE, thanks to a significant gift to the Innovation and Sustainability Campaign. A new multi-million dollar endowment from Shirley and Seymour Lehrer and the entire Lehrer family supports the Academy’s training program for voice and vocal piano. Over more than 20 years, the Lehrers sponsored 35 students as scholarship donors and volunteered as Compeers. Seymour served on the Board of Directors of the Music Academy for 19 years. Shirley participated on the Advancement Committee for over a decade. They were the lead supporters of the Lehrer Studios built in 2005 and the re-naming of the Marilyn Horne Main House in 2016. Seymour said in his recently published book, The Man, The Machines, and the Life, that, “being a part of the growth of the Music Academy, I count as one of the greatest blessings of my life.” The Lehrers are deeply appreciated for their leadership and generosity.

2022 TEACHING ARTISTS John Churchwell director of music Nicola Bowie choreographer Daniela Candillari principal opera conductor Tom Cipullo composer-in-residence Sasha Cooke†artist-in-residence James Darrah creative producer of special projects Margo Garrett Martin Katz* Peter Kazaras Hemdi Kfir William Long Gerald Martin Moore Nils Neubert Susanna Phillips† Mosher guest artist Laura Poe† Nino Sanikidze† Tamara Sanikidze† Bill Schuman Craig Terry† Sara E. Widzer acting and performance coach Maureen Zoltek†

†Alumni *Distinguished alumni

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2022 FELLOWS DIRECTING FELLOW Sawyer Ann Craig VOCAL PIANO Michael Banwarth John Morefield Gayoung Park* Tzu-Kuang Tan Frances Theilmann SOPRANO Juliette Chauvet Kylie Kreucher Krista Renee Pape Johanna Will MEZZO-SOPRANO Danielle Casós Sarah Margaret Dyer Joanne Evans Ariana Maubach Quinn Middleman Tivoli Treloar

TENOR Giorgi Guliashvili Maximillian Jansen Sibo Msibi Luke Norvell Christopher Willoughby BARITONE Samuel Kidd* Eunsung Lee Alex Mathews BASS-BARITONE Yue Wu BASS Eric Delagrange

*Returning fellow

2022 STUDIO ARTISTS SOPRANO Sarah Fleiss Lauren Funkhouser Dalia Medovnikov Juliet Schlefer

TENOR Jonathan Elmore BARITONE Robert Rhodes Frazier Jonathan Lenn Lawlor

MEZZO-SOPRANO Anna Loreena Kelly Sarah Scofield

2022 EVENTS THU, JUN 16, 7:30 PM | HAHN HALL

OPENING NIGHT

The introduction of the fellows performing their favorite songs and arias.

WED, JUN 22, 1:30 PM | HAHN HALL

MASTERCLASS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SASHA COOKE TUE, JUN 28, 7:30 PM | LOBERO THEATRE

x2 SERIES JOHANNES BRAHMS PIANO TRIO NO. 1 CLAUDE DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp TOM CIPULLO World Premiere With Lehrer Vocal Institute Artist-in-Residence Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano, alumna John Churchwell piano

WED, JUN 29, 1:30 PM | HAHN HALL

MASTERCLASS BILL SCHUMAN FRI, JUL 1, 7:30 PM | HAHN HALL

SHOWCASE SERIES LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE: MUSIC OF TOM CIPULLO WED, JUL 6, 1:30 PM | HAHN HALL

MASTERCLASS JOHN CHURCHWELL director of music

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TOM CIPULLO

SASHA COOKE

Summer FESTIVAL OPERA P Y O T R

T C H A I K O V S K Y

Eugene Onegin DANIELA CANDILLARI CONDUCTOR PETER KAZARAS DIRECTOR ACADEMY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE FELLOWS

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FRI, JUL 15, 7:30 PM AND SUN, JUL 17, 2:30 PM GRANADA THEATRE

TCHAIKOVSKY’S EUGENE ONEGIN

PASSIONATE LETTERS. A FATAL DUEL. HEARTBREAK.

Based on Pushkin’s classic novel brought to life with some of the most romantic music ever written.

2022 VOCAL EVENTS

WED, JUL 20, 1:30 PM | HAHN HALL

MASTERCLASS MARGO GARRETT MON, JUL 25, 7:30 PM | HAHN HALL

MOSHER GUEST ARTISTS CONCERT SERIES SUSANNA PHILLIPS soprano, alumna JOHN CHURCHWELL piano THU, JUL 28, 7:30 PM | HAHN HALL

HAHN HALL 1922-2022: AN ORIGINAL CABARET Hahn Hall is transformed in a daring new presentation by award-winning music director Craig Terry and phenom director James Darrah, the Academy’s Creative Producer of Special Projects. The originally devised cabaret of thrilling music+theater that transports audiences to 1922 in an original story inspired by the politically charged Weimar German Republic and Berlin cabaret culture. The production uses the hall’s new 2022 upgrades of enhanced video and lighting technology, generously funded by the Hind Foundation.

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SUSANNA PHILLIPS

FRI, JUL 29, 1:30 PM | HAHN HALL

MASTERCLASS: MOSHER GUEST ARTIST SUSANNA PHILLIPS WED, AUG 3, NOON | HAHN HALL

MARILYN HORNE SONG COMPETITION

Winners receive the commission of a world premiere for a recital in 2023 and a cash prize.

FRI, AUG 5, 1:30 PM | LEHMANN HALL

75th ANNIVERSARY LEGACY MASTERCLASS: MARTIN KATZ

2022 VOCAL EVENTS

SAT, AUG 6, 7:30 PM, GRANADA THEATRE

ACADEMY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA THE PINES OF ROME SPERANZA SCAPPUCCI conductor, alumna GIOACHINO ROSSINI William Tell Overture Selections featuring LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE Fellows: GAETANO DONIZETTI “Cheti, cheti immantinente” from Don Pasquale GIUSEPPI VERDI “Un di, se ben rammentomi...” from Rigoletto CHARLES GOUNOD “A moi les plaisirs...” from Faust GEORGES BIZET “Nous avons en tête une affaire...” from Carmen GIACOMO PUCCINI “Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso” from La rondine JOSÉ SERRANO “Canción de la gitana” from La alegría del batallón JOSÉ SERRANO “Vuelven las horas lejanas” from Los de Aragón RUPERTO CHAPÍ “Carceleras” from Las Hijas del Zebedeo OTTORINO RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome

SPERANZA SCAPPUCCI

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FELLOWS VOCAL PIANO MICHAEL BANWARTH 23, born in Dubuque, Iowa, is a master’s degree student at New England Conservatory, studying with Cameron Stowe and Vivian Weilerstein and serving as a teaching assistant for the Song Lab. Michael won both the 2020 Fort Dodge Area Symphony Association Young Artist Competition and 2019 Iowa State University Concert of Soloists Competition. JOHN MOREFIELD 27, born in Woodstock, Illinois earned his master’s degree from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor where he studied with Martin Katz and served as a Staff Assistant. John won the Northern Illinois University Chamber Competition in 2017. Recent engagements include serving as Rehearsal Pianist and Coach for the University of Michigan Opera Theatre.

GAYOUNG PARK (‘20, ‘21) 28, born in Seoul, South Korea earned a master’s degree at New England Conservatory, where she studied with Cameron Stowe. Ga-Young also served as the accompanist for the Conservatory’s concert choir and as core pianist for the preparatory school. She recently performed Harpsichord in a production of Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas.

TZU-KUANG TAN 26, born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is a graduate student at the University of Michigan, studying with Amy I-Lin Cheng and Martin Katz, and where he often serves as an Assistant Coach and Rehearsal Pianist. Awards include the 2021 Jacqueline Avent Concerto Competition Winner and 2018 Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concerto Competition Winner.

FRANCES THIELMANN 27, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, completed her master’s degree at the University of Toronto studying with Steven Philcox. Operatic training includes one year with l’Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, and two years with the COC Ensemble Studio, where she served as music director for the world premiere of Ian Cusson’s opera Fantasma.

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DIRECTING FELLOW SAWYER ANN CRAIG 29, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, earned an Artist Diploma from McGill University in Montreal working with Monica Huisman, Patrick Hansen, and Katherine Twaddle. Sawyer co-founded the Good Mess Opera Theatre based in Canada. She recently served as the director for Francis Poulenc’s opera Les Mamelles de Tirèsias with Opera McGill.

SOPRANO JULIETTE CHAUVET 26, born in Avignon, France, is earning her master’s degree from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (Vienna). In 2018-2019 she was a Resident Artist at the Centre de perfeccionament Placido Domingo (Palau de les Arts, Opera de Valencia, Spain). Last year, Juliette won the Anonymous Audition project Competition for German Repertoire.

KYLIE KREUCHER 21, born in Commerce Township, Michigan, is earning a bachelor’s degree at Oberlin Conservatory, where she studies with both Katherine Jolly and Martha Sheil. There, she has performed the roles of Damon in Acis and Galatea and Diana in Emperor Norton. Kylie won the Classical Treble Voice division in the 2020 Ohio NATS Competition.

KRISTA RENÉE PAPE 26, born in Rockport, Texas, is based in Houston where she teaches and performs. Krista was a resident artist with Opera North (2020) where she appeared as Königin der Nacht in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. This year, she sang the role of Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir D’amore with Operativo Houston and appeared with the Palm Springs Opera Guild in concert.

JOHANNA WILL 30, born in Munich, Germany, earned her Professional Studies degree at Mannes School of Music, where she performed the role of Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in Suor Angelica. 2021 Awards include the Stephen de Maio Memorial Award (Gerda Lissner Foundation), and Metropolitan Opera National Council District Winner for Iowa.

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MEZZO SOPRANO DANIELLE CASÓS 22, born in Bountiful, Utah, is earning her master’s degree from the University of Michigan studying with Freda Herseth. Roles include Mrs. McLean in Susannah, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, and Older Leah in Uncovered. Danielle received the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award in 2020, and the Utah State University Concerto Competition in 2019. SARAH MARGARET DYER 25, born in Omaha, Nebraska, is a graduate student at the University of Houston Moores School of Music studying with Melanie Sonnenberg, where she performed the role of Cornelia in Julius Caesar. Sarah appeared with Opera in the Ozarks as Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillion and was a 2022 finalist in the Houston Saengerbund Awards. JOANNE EVANS 30, from Enfield, London, is earning a master’s degree at Bard College Conservatory studying with Edith Bers. The 2022 Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Boston District is also a Resident Artist with Opera Colorado for the 2022-2023 Season. Last year she appeared as Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff with the Berkshire Opera Festival. ARIANA MAUBACH 25, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is earning a master’s degree at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) studying with Gwendolyn Coleman. At CCM, she has performed the mainstage role of Dorothée in L’Amant Anonyme by Joseph Bologne. This May she was a Vocal Fellow at the Spoleto Festival USA. QUINN MIDDLEMAN 31, born in Portland, Oregon, earned a master’s degree from Northwestern University, and studies with Nova Thomas. She has performed with Madison Opera, Opéra Louisiane, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Iowa, and was a Resident Artist at Utah Opera. Quinn won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Wisconsin District. TIVOLI TRELOAR 21, born in Mission Viejo, California, is earning her bachelor’s degree at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, studying with Juliana Gondek and Wendy Caldwell. Roles performed include Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (Opera UCLA), Flora in La traviata (La musica lirica), and Echo in the world premiere of Kay Rhie’s opera Quake (Opera UCLA). 15

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TENOR GIORGI GULIASHVILI 26, born in Rustavi, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia, is currently participating in the Young Artist Program at Teatro San Carlo. Giorgi earned his master’s degree studying with Mariella Devia. With the Tbilisi State Opera Studio, he has performed the roles of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Alfredo in La Traviata.

MAXIMILLIAN JANSEN 28, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, earned his master’s degree at Bard College Conservatory and currently studies with Lorraine Nubar. Roles performed include Fourth Jew in Salome, the Gingerbread Witch in Hansel and Gretel, and Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites. In 2018 he won the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s French Art Song Competition. SIBO MSIBI 27, born in Manzini, Middleveld, Swaziland, is earning a bachelor’s degree at Westmont College where he studies with Nichole Dechaine. In 2021, Sibo won the Westmont College Concerto Competition. Also at Westmont College, he performed the role of Martin in Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land. Sibo is a member of the Westmont Chamber Singers. LUKE NORVELL 23, born in Tacoma, Washington, is a Resident Artist at Academy of Vocal Arts, studying with Bill Schuman. Luke recently took First Place in the 2021 NATS LA Collegiate Auditions. Roles performed include Lensky in Eugene Onegin and Duca in Rigoletto, both at the Academy of Vocal Arts, and Uriel in The Creation (Part 1) with Philadelphia Sinfonia. CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY 24, born in Warwick, United Kingdom, is earning a master’s degree at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Vienna). He won the 2021 Vienna International Music Competition and the 2021 Charles Wood Song Competition (Senior Category). Christopher was also a 2021 Waterperry Opera Festival Young Artist.

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BARITONE SAMUEL KIDD (’18, ‘19) 30, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is earning his master’s degree at Yale School of Music studying with Gerald Martin Moore. Samuel was a Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Wisconsin District Winner in 2021. He has appeared with Dayton Opera as Barone Douphol in La Traviata and has sung Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos and the title role in Falstaff.

EUNSUNG LEE 30, born in Seoul, Korea, earned his Professional Studies Certificate at Manhattan School of Music. He received 2021 Encouragement Awards in both the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (New York District) and The Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition. He teaches voice at the Korean School of New York and at Long Island Music Conservatory.

ALEX MATHEWS 27, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, received his Diploma in operatic performance from the University of Toronto, where he performed the roles of Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Count Gil in Il segreto di Susanna. At the Chautauqua Institution (Opera Conservatory), he performed Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro and Elviro in Serse.

BASS-BARITONE YUE WU 24, born in Tianjin, China, earned a master’s degree student at Mannes School of Music studying with Diana Soviero. Awards include First Prize in the 2021 Hong Kong International Vocal Open Competition, Finalist in the 2021 Golden Bell Award of Chinese Vocal Music, and Finalist in the 2022 Carolyn Bailey Argento Vocal Competition.

BASS ERIC DELAGRANGE 31, born in Newtown, Pennsylvania, is a Resident Artist at Academy of Vocal Arts, studying with Bill Schuman. There he has performed the roles of Colline in La bohème and Zaretsky/Captain in Eugene Onegin. Other recent performances include Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring at the Princeton Festival and Hermit in Der Freischütz with Heartbeat Opera.

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STUDIO ARTISTS SOPRANO SARAH FLEISS 22, is earning her bachelor’s degree at Curtis Institute of Music studying with Julia Faulkner. She was named finalist in both the 2021 Camile Coloratura Awards and 2022 Orpheus Competition. At Curtis, Sarah has performed the roles of Monica in The Medium and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito. She has also appeared with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble. LAUREN FUNKHOUSER 19, is a bachelor’s degree student at the College of Charleston studying with Dr. Saundra Deathos-Meers, where she sang as Königin der Nacht in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Lauren attended both the Washington National Opera Institute and Interlochen Arts Camp, where she received the 2019 Fine Arts Award in Voice. DALIA MEDOVNIKOV 21,is earning her bachelor’s degree from Curtis Institute of Music studying with Emily Olin. She participates in the Curtis Opera Theatre and in the Curtis Chamber Music Program. Awards include second place in the 2021 Hal Leonard Art Song Competition. She performed the role of Cecile de Volanges in Conrad Susa’s Dangerous Liaisons with Curtis Opera Theater. JULIET SCHLEFER 23, recently earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan studying with Louise Toppin and Jennifer Aylmer. Awards include University of Michigan Concerto Competition Finalist 2022 and Opera Grand Rapids Collegiate Competition Finalist 2021. She appeared with the UMich Digital Music Ensemble in Philip Glass’ Music in 12 Parts and in the rold of Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Neo.

MEZZO-SOPRANO ANNA LOREENA KELLY 25, recently earned her master’s degree from Yale School of Music studying with Kevin Short, Adriana Zabala, and Rick Christman. Awards include regional winner and national semifinalist for the 2021 National Association of Teachers of Singing competition, and the 2016 Schmidt Vocal Competition. Roles performed at Yale include Ruggiero in Alcina, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, and Smeton in Anna Bolena. She also appeared as Seston in Giulio Cesare with Catholic University Opera, and has performed with Yale New Music New Haven. SARAH SCOFIELD 24, is earning her master’s degree at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music studying with Dr. Quinn Patrick Ankrum. She was the 2020 Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Scholarship Competition Winner. She has appeared as a Colburn Foundation Fellow and a Songfest Professional Artist. Roles include Die Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte with CCM Opera d’Arte.

TENOR JONATHAN ELMORE 23, is earning his master’s degree at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music studying with Heidi Grant Murphy. Awards include first place in the 2020 Great Composers Competition International. Roles include Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S Pinafore and Secondo Soldato in L’incoronazione di Poppea with Indiana University Opera Theatre and Ballet.

BARITONE ROBERT RHODES FRAZIER 24, recently earned his bachelor’s degree at SUNY Purchase studying with Bonnie Hamilton. Performances include the premiere of “Quarry songs” by Brett L Wery in 2021, the role of King Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors at SUNY Purchase in 2021, and the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro at SUNY Purchase in 2022. Robert is also a private guitar, piano, and voice instructor.

JONATHAN LENN LAWLOR 23, is earning a master’s degree at Bard Conservatory of Music studying with Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. Roles include Forrester in The Cunning Little Vixen as part of the Bard Conservatory Vocal Artist Program, Belcore (Cover) in L’elisir d’Amore with Opera Maine, and Marcello in La Boheme with New England Conservatory. He received the 2020 NATS Upper Undergraduate 1st Prize.

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TEACHING ARTISTS JOHN CHURCHWELL DIRECTOR OF MUSIC, LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE John Churchwell is Head of Music Staff for San Francisco Opera. Prior to that appointment in 2011, he served as an assistant conductor for both the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera for 14 years. Mr. Churchwell has worked on over 125 productions with James Levine, Nicola Luisotti, Donald Runnicles, Nello Santi, and Sir Charles Mackerras among others. A champion of American music, he most recently participated in the world premiere of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West. Previous world premieres include John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Philip Glass’ Appomattox, and Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne among others. Mr. Churchwell has partnered in recital with vocalists including Michael Fabiano, Lawrence Brownlee, Joyce DiDonato, Isabel Leonard, Lisette Oropesa, Ellie Dehn, and Frederica von Stade, as well as numerous chamber music concerts with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Mr. Churchwell has been a member of the Music Academy faculty since 2000.

NICOLA BOWIE CHOREOGRAPHER Nicola Bowie danced professionally with English National Ballet before joining English National Opera as Head of Movement and Dance (1980-1998). In that capacity, she choreographed more than 40 productions there. Since 1998 she has worked as a director and choreographer at New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Virginia Opera, Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, Eugene Opera, Arizona Opera, San Diego Opera, Graz Oper, Oper Bonn, Semper Oper in Dresden, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Scottish Opera, Korean National Opera, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Opera Zuid in Maastrict, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Opera McGill in Montreal, USC, UCLA, and Cal State Long Beach.

TOM CIPULLO COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE Hailed by the American Academy of Art & Letters for music of “inexhaustible imagination, wit, expressive range and originality,” composer Tom Cipullo is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Arts & Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize, and the 2016 Argento Chamber Opera Award. He has received commissions from dozens of performing ensembles, and he has received fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Liguria Center (Italy), and the Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain). The New York Times has called his music “intriguing and unconventional,” and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has called him “an expert in writing for the voice.” Cipullo’s music is recorded on the Naxos, Albany, CRI, PGM, MSR, Centaur, and Capstone labels, and is published by E.C. Schirmer, Oxford University Press, and Classical Vocal Reprints. Cipullo’s critically-acclaimed opera, Glory Denied, is one of the most frequently performed 21st-century operas. SASHA COOKE (‘02) MEZZO-SOPRANO, ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Two-time Grammy Award-winning Sasha Cooke is sought after by the world’s leading orchestras, opera companies, and chamber music ensembles for her versatile repertoire and commitment to new music. Sasha has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Seattle Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Gran Teatre del Liceu among others, and with over 70 symphony orchestras worldwide under conductors including Michael Tilson Thomas, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Gustavo Dudamel, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Edo de Waart, Harry Bicket, Riccardo Muti, and Sir Mark Elder. The 2002 Music Academy alumna recently collaborated with 17 composers on a project called how do I find you which was released on Pentatone and premiered at San Francisco Symphony on their Great Performers series last January. She is a graduate of Rice University, The Juilliard School, the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program, and Young Concert Artists. For more information visit www. sashacooke.com. JAMES DARRAH CREATIVE PRODUCER, SPECIAL PROJECTS Director and designer James Darrah’s visually and emotionally arresting work at the intersection of theater, opera, and film is currently in demand in venues all over the world. Mr. Darrah’s productions are known for their elegance and virtuosic and visceral “striking [work] that injects real drama” (The New York Times) that merges innovative design with movement and narrative heft. Current projects include world premieres and new productions with Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize winning prism, Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up and Breaking the Waves, and Philip Glass’ Les enfants terribles; debuts with The Kennedy Center, Theater an der Wien, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia; and continued collaborations with Opera Omaha as well as Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. As artistic director of the ONE Festival, Mr. Darrah is “expanding the boundaries of the operatic form” (Wall Street Journal) by framing opera in a context that is both inclusive and highly relevant. Mr. Darrah is on faculty at UCLA, and the Artistic Director for Long Beach Opera. 15

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MARGO GARRETT GUEST ARTIST The large roster of noted artists with whom pianist Margo Garrett has long performing relationships include sopranos Kathleen Battle, Barbara Bonney, the late Judith Raskin, Lucy Shelton, Dawn Upshaw, Benita Valente, mezzo Shirley Close, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, violinists Jaime Laredo and Daniel Phillips, violist Paul Neubauer, and cellists Sharon Robinson, Matt Haimowitz, and the late Stephen Kates. Her recordings are found on Albany, CRI, Delos (nominated for 2019 ICA award), Deutsche Grammophon (1992 Grammy for Best Vocal Recital), Dorian, Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch, and Sony Classical. Ms. Garrett has premiered over 35 works, won an ASCAP Most Creative Programming Award, headed collaborative piano programs at the University of Minnesota, The Juilliard School, and New England Conservatory as well as traveled the globe giving masterclasses in leading schools of music and performance venues as well as adjudicating international competitions. Ms. Garrett is overjoyed to be back at the Music Academy this summer.

MARTIN KATZ (‘64) VOCAL PIANO & INTERPRETATION Martin Katz has been in constant demand by the most celebrated vocal soloists for more than five decades, including Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, Karita Mattila, Jose Carreras, Samuel Ramey, David Daniels, Kiri te Kanawa, Cecilia Bartoli, Piotr Beczala, and Kathleen Battle. In recent years, Mr. Katz has added conducting to his schedule, and has led operatic and concert performances for many of his partners, as well as opera productions for the New National Theatre of Tokyo, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, and at the University of Michigan. Mr. Katz has chaired Michigan’s collaborative piano program for thirty-five years, and his students, both singers and pianists, are working virtually all over the world in their chosen field. His textbook The Complete Collaborator, published by Oxford University Press, is considered a seminal work on the subject. Mr. Katz attended the Music Academy in 1964 and is a 1998 recipient of its Distinguished Alumni award

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PETER KAZARAS OPERA DIRECTOR Peter Kazaras is the Director of Opera UCLA and the Inaugural Susan G. and Michel D. Covel MD Chair at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. A stage director and Professor of Music, he was also Artistic Director of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program from 2006 to 2013. Earlier in his career, he received worldwide acclaim as an operatic tenor, performing at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, and Vienna. Over the past fifteen years, he directed over twenty productions for Seattle Opera’s main stage and Young Artists Program, plus productions for Opera Cleveland, Madison Opera, Eos Orchestra, Red: {an Orchestra}, the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and festivals at Cabrillo and Caramoor. He directed for educational programs such as Merola at San Francisco Opera Center, the Wolf Trap summer program, the Chautauqua Institute Voice Department, the Academy of Vocal Arts, the Hartt College of Music, and Florida State University.

HEMDI KFIR LANGUAGE COACH Israeli-born Hemdi Kfir joined the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera in 2007 and has also coached at the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. She is affiliated with The Juilliard School, Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artist Program, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and Tokyo’s Academy for the Performing Arts, GeiDai. At the Israeli Opera, she was language coach for Les contes d’Hoffmann, Werther, Carmen, Il trittico, Il Viaggio a Reims, and Madama Butterfly, and she coaches regularly the singers of its Young Artist Program. At La Fenice, Venice, she coached Parsifal, and at the Santa Fe Opera, Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. Ms. Kfir joined the faculty of Joan Dornemann’s International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI) in 1999, with whom she toured in the United States, Japan, Italy, China, France, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Hemdi has translated surtitles for numerous operas, and edited Nico Castel’s first volume of Handel operas.

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WILLIAM LONG ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR & CHORUSMASTER, OPERA William Long is currently a cover conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra and on the Music Staff at San Francisco Opera and Washington National Opera. This past year, Long made his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra assisting on a wide range of programs over the season. Recent engagements for the London-based conductor include his debut with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducting the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. A frequent collaborator with the Washington National Opera, Long has appeared as cover conductor at the Kennedy Center for performances of Porgy and Bess, Eugene Onegin, and Candide, as well as the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up and Terence Blanchard’s Champion. A native of California, he previously collaborated with San Francisco Opera as assistant conductor for Hänsel und Gretel, Le nozze di Figaro, and Arabella, and with Los Angeles Opera as cover conductor for Gordon Getty’s Usher House and The Canterville Ghost.

GERALD MARTIN MOORE VOCAL PEDAGOGUE In 2020 Gerald Martin Moore was appointed Director of Yale Opera and Coordinator of Vocal Studies for the School of Music. An internationally renowned voice teacher, Mr. Moore has worked with Renée Fleming since 1999, when they collaborated on the production of Alcina at the Palais Garnier in Paris. As voice teacher to many leading artists he has worked at ROH Covent Garden, La Scala, San Francisco, Opera de Bastille, Champs-Élysées, and Châtelet as well as the Aix-en-Provence, Santa Fe, and Edinburgh Festivals. Mr. Moore has been on the faculty of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann program and the Curtis Institute and teaches regularly at Glyndebourne, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Ravinia. Recent engagements include recital tours with Ms. Fleming, recording the soundtrack for the movie Bel Canto starring Julianne Moore, whom he coached in the role, and regular hosting of the Metropolitan Opera Radio Quiz.

2022 ATLAS NILS NEUBERT LANGUAGE COACH Tenor Nils Neubert is active as a performer, educator, coach, and scholar in the United States and abroad. He teaches German diction at The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, and has served as German coach at the Music Academy of the West since 2016. He joined the Glimmerglass Festival in that same capacity during 2020, and the music staff at the Metropolitan Opera in 2022. He holds degrees from Juilliard (BM), Teachers College, Columbia University (MA), and the CUNY Graduate Center (DMA).

SUSANNA PHILLIPS (’02, ’03) MOSHER GUEST ARTIST, SOPRANO Alabama native soprano Susanna Phillips continues to establish herself as one of today’s most sought-after singing actors and recitalists. Ms. Phillips is a recipient of the prestigious Met Opera 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award. She’s sung at the Met Opera for 12 consecutive seasons. Role highlights include Fiordigili, which The New York Times called a “breakthrough night”, and Clémence in the company’s premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de Loin. Desired by the world’s most renown orchestras, Ms. Phillips most recently opened the Oregon Symphony’s 125th Anniversary season performing Mahler’s Second Symphony. She has appeared with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra. Other career highlights include Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and the title role of Agrippina with Boston Baroque, Stella in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Renée Fleming, and Birdie in Blitzstein’s Regina. LAURA POE (’03) VOCAL COACH Based in Germany, Korean American pianist Laura Poe is a vocal coach, performer, educator and music editor. Currently in her 11th season on the music staff at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, she has also worked at San Francisco Opera, De Nationale Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, and Semperoper Dresden. She has taught as a vocal coach at The Juilliard School, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Aspen Music Festival and School, AIMS in Graz, among others. A graduate of The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and The Juilliard School, and she studied under such artists as James Levine, Ken Noda, Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Margo Garrett, Brian Zeger, and Bob Cowart. Laura works closely with the composer John Adams as both pianist and editor of the piano-vocal arrangements of his recent operas. She is a sought-after song recital partner, most recently performing with Julia Bullock in recitals for CalPerformances and Los Angeles Opera.

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NINO SANIKIDZE (‘01, ‘02) VOCAL COACH Georgian pianist Nino Sanikidze has held the position of head coach for the LA Opera’s Young Artist Program since its inception in 2006 and as a lecturer in music performance at UCLA since 2022. In addition to her coaching duties, Ms. Sanikidze also serves on the LA Opera staff as pianist and prompter. Ms. Sanikidze has appeared at Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Royal Opera House Muscat, Teatro Municipal di Santiago, Washington National Opera, Bard Summerscape, Cleveland Opera, and Wichita Grand Opera, and in recital with Elīna Garanča, Marcelo Alvarez, and Angel Romero. Ms. Sanikidze is an alumna of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, Aspen Opera Center, Cleveland Art Song Festival, and the Music Academy of the West, where she received the Marilyn Horne Foundation Award for Excellence in Vocal Accompanying. Ms. Sanikidze has been a faculty member at the Music Academy since 2014.

TAMARA SANIKIDZE (’05, ’06, ’07) VOCAL COACH A “technically nimble and supportive pianist” (New York Times), Dr. Tamara Sanikidze has performed on the world’s most prestigious stages and serves as the Head of Voice Division, Director, Producer, and Principal Coach of the Butler Opera Center and Artistic Director of Butler Opera International Competition. A graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera and the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera, Dr. Sanikidze regularly serves numerous music staff positions in San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles Opera working with James Conlon, Nicola Luisotti, Donald Runnicles, and Eun Sun Kim. As an active recitalist, she partners with Nadine Sierra, Thomas Hampson, Leah Crocetto, Lianna Haroutounian, and Quinn Kelsey. By special invitation, Dr. Sanikidze performed at the White House for President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. Dr. Sanikidze joined the faculty at the Music Academy of the West in 2015.

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BILL SCHUMAN VOCAL PEDAGOGUE Bill Schuman is internationally celebrated as one of the world’s leading teachers of singing, whose students represent some of the most important names in the music world and have won an unprecedented number of international vocal competitions and awards. Mr. Schuman has been associated with the Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Program, the Curtis Institute of Music, and was personally invited by Placido Domingo to be one of the inaugural teachers at the Washington Opera Young Artist Program. Since 1989, Mr. Schuman has been on the faculty of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and is in demand worldwide for masterclasses and lectures. Mr. Schuman has been featured in numerous books on the art of singing and been the subject of articles in publications including Opera News and the Wall Street Journal. In 2008, Mr. Schuman was honored by the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the youngest voice teacher to ever receive their Lifetime Achievement Award

CRAIG TERRY (’98) MUSIC DIRECTOR, HAHN HALL: 1922-2022 Craig Terry has served as the Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Music Director of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2013, and spent 11 seasons with the company as an assistant conductor. Before coming to Lyric, he was an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera after joining its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. The American pianist has an international performance career and recently won a GRAMMY Award for “Best Classical Solo Vocal Album” for the recording he made with Joyce DiDonato, “Songplay.” He has collaborated as a chamber musician with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Lyric Opera Orchestra, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchester, and the Pro Arte String Quartet. His discography includes “Diva on Detour” with Patricia Racette, “As Long As There Are Songs” with Stephanie Blythe, and “Chanson d’Avril” with Nicole Cabell. .

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SARA E. WIDZER ACTING & PERFORMANCE COACH Stage Director Sara E. Widzer continues to produce exceptional operatic and theatre works at companies across the United States and abroad. In the 2021-22 season she returned to Los Angeles Opera directing the live streams of the company’s productions of Tannhäuser and Il Trovatore, followed by her return to Opera Santa Barbara for a new production of Semele. In March she made her debut in the Maldives for a new production of La Tragedié de Carmen, followed by serving as Assistant Director to Francesca Zambello at LA Opera for Aida. She returns to the Music Academy of the West for the summer as the program’s first full-time acting and performance coach. Her guest engagements for the 2020-21 season featured three directorial debuts, including new productions of La Tragedié de Carmen with Opera Santa Barbara and Charleston Opera Theatre and a new production of Bizet’s Carmen for Opera Orlando.

MAUREEN ZOLTEK (’10, ‘12) VOCAL COACH Collaborative pianist Maureen Zoltek enjoys a diverse career working with leading vocalists, orchestras, and opera companies across the United States. Dr. Zoltek now serves as an assistant conductor and keyboardist at San Francisco Opera, and has collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Opera Omaha. She is a graduate of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, attended both the Aspen Music Festival and School and Music Academy of the West, and is a proud winner of the pianist division of the Music Academy’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition (2012). Dr. Zoltek completed her D.M.A. degree at the Manhattan School of Music and holds a master’s degree in piano performance and musicology in addition to a bachelor’s degree in piano performance. When she is not in rehearsal, Dr. Zoltek enjoys baking, true crime podcasts, and hiking with her standard poodle and travel companion, Henry.

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