Page 42 - 2020 Classical Singer Magazine January Summer Program Issue
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Summer Program
2019 Highlights
Margo Garrett
Students hone their triple threat skills by studying acting technique with The Phantom of the Opera’s Paul Schaefer.
L to R: Bel Canto Institute students Kerrigan Bigelow, Xinyi Zhou, Olivia Belle Gray (seated), Taylor Ann Grand, and Hunji Kim.
Lucie St. Martin as Tytania and Dominic Veilleux as Bottom in the 2019 production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Top Left: Pianist Margo Garrett works with a singer on French mélodie during a 2019 masterclass for Classical Singing and New York in June, an 18-day program providing intensive vocal study and coaching for a small group of aspiring professional singers and pianists ages 18-35. The program culminates in a final public recital in a recognized New York venue.
Bottom Left: Bel Canto Institute teaches and perpetuates style and tradition in 19th and 20th century Italian opera and song through a program filled with intensive Italian language study, private voice lessons, private coachings, performance classes on style and tradition, lectures, and public performances.
Top Right: In 2019, the American Institute of Musical Studies presented concerts of Opera Studio participants with orchestra or piano, the Meistersinger Vocal Competition, Lieder Studio concerts, private coachings, and masterclasses. Pictured: the curtain call for the “Eine Reise durch Italien” concert. L to R: Daniel Gallegos, Abraham Bretón, Gabriela Flores, Alejandra Rojas, Travis Williams, Julia Laird, Amin Ahangaran, Csaba Szöke, and Patricia Kopko with the AIMS Festival Orchestra and conductor Rani Calderon.
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Middle Right: Broadway Artists Alliance provides professional training for promising young musical theatre performers in New York City. Participants study voice, acting, and dance with Tony Award winners and current Broadway performers as well as NYC’s top musical theatre casting directors, agents, managers, directors, choreographers, and coaches.
Bottom Right: Since 1998, Opera NUOVA has been distinguished as the premiere Canadian summer program for young artists. The program aims to provide singers and pianists with holistic, imaginative training to supplement traditional university programs. Singers have the chance to integrate these newly developed skills in three fully staged productions with orchestra.
photo by Gerald Hirl
