11.10.2023 SNR Nilan and Burbo Program Notes

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Miranda Nilan, mezzo-soprano Miranda Nilan is a fourth-year music education major and oboe performance minor here at West Chester University. Miranda’s love for music started at a young age from singing nursery rhymes and folk songs with her grandmothers, this resulted in her participating in many musical ensembles in her primary years such as band, marching band, choir, musical theater, the American Music Abroad instrumental ensemble, PMEA district, regional, and all-state choir, district and regional band, district orchestra, and the NAFME Honors choir. Throughout her time here at West Chester Miranda has participated in an array of ensembles and events such as Mastersingers, Concert Band, Trilovati Flute ensemble, Wind Symphony, Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir, Vocal Honors recitals, a Masterclass with Dr. Everett McCorvey, the Fall 2023 Lobby Concert, the Women on Record Recital, the fall 2023 opera production of Vittorio Giannini’s Beauty and the Beast, and the Korean Art Song Recital. Miranda has competed in the freshman, sophomore, and junior scholarship competition here at West Chester, winning both her freshman and sophomore year, she was also the winner of the NATS 2022 Regional competition for her division and was a semifinalist at the 2022 NATS National Competition held in Chicago. She has been a Wells School of Music ambassador since the fall of 2022, a choir scholar at First Presbyterian Church of West Chester since the fall of 2021, she is an alum of the Epsilon Epsilon chapter of the music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, and is also a member of NAFME, NAFME collegiate, and PMEA. After graduation, Miranda plans to go to grad school for vocal performance to further her education as a performer and expand her knowledge of vocal pedagogy. Miranda hopes to have a performance career and then eventually use the knowledge she gains from her degrees and work experience to settle down and get a teaching job. Nicholas Burbo, baritone Nicholas is a senior music education major with a concentration in voice. In his time at the Wells School of Music, he has performed with numerous choral and instrumental ensembles including the Incomparable Golden Rams Marching Band, Concert Band, Recital Choir, Mastersingers, and Concert Choir where he has served as section leader and president of the ensemble. Nicholas has also served as a student ambassador for the duration of his time here at West Chester. In the Spring of 2023, he was the recipient of the prestigious Presser Scholar Award. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Music Honor Society, in which he was inducted as the “outstanding junior member”. Nicholas has also recently been inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. Other awards and accolades include the Harry Wilkinson Music Theory Excellence Award, Laury S. Brokenshire Scholarship, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Scholarship, and the Louis C. Williams Concert Choir Award for Leadership. Outside of West Chester, Nicholas serves as a music director at SALT Performing Arts in Chester Springs, PA where he has music directed over ten theatrical productions since starting there in the Spring of 2021. Nicholas has also had the privilege of performing in several professional pit orchestras in the area, including holding a keyboard chair in a production of Aspects of Love at the Media Theatre in February 2023. On Sunday mornings Nicholas can be found at Lima United Methodist Church where he serves as the Director of Music Ministries. He would like to extend a very special thank you to all of mentors throughout the years including his voice teachers: Cindy McCord, Andrea Broido, and Dr. Nicholas Provenzale, his high school music teachers: Megan Rozinski and Craig Snyder, and most of all his friends and family for all their love and support.


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