The Department of Voice, in collaboration with UMS, will host masterclasses with the soloists appearing in The Messiah, on Friday, December 3, 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00p.m. Four masterclasses will take place concurrently in the Earl V. Moore Building.
Please visit the UMS website for information about The Messiah.
JOELLE HARVEY, soprano
WATKINS LECTURE HALL
- 10:00 a.m. – Cinderella Ksebati, soprano, senior
“Gretchen am Spinnrade”, Franz Schubert; Vinicius Costa, piano - 10:30 a.m. – Nicole Banchik, soprano, senior
“Durch Zärtlichkeit”, Die Entfúhrung aus dem Serail, W. A. Mozart; Lydia Qiu, piano - 11:00 a.m. – Darla Lowe, Soprano, MM
“Deh vieni non tardar”, Le nozze di Figaro, W. A. Mozart; Sarah Thune, piano - 11:30 a.m. – Bethany Worrell, Soprano, DMA
“No word from Tom”, The Rake’s Progress, Igor Stravinsky; Sarah Thune, piano
MEG BRAGLE, mezzo-soprano
McINTOSH THEATER
- 10:00 a.m. – Valeria de Luna-Kent, mezzo-soprano, MM
- “Cuba dentro de un piano”, Canciones Negras, Xavier Montsalvatge. Kimia Refieian, piano
- 10:30 a.m. – Ben Bian, tenor, junior. “Vainement, ma bien-aimée”
Le Roi D’ys, Édouard Lalo; Joshua Marzan, piano - 11:00 a.m. – Maia Aramburù, soprano, senior
“O mio babbino caro”, Gianni Schicchi, Giacomo Puccini; Lydia Qiu, piano - 11:30 a.m. – Abigail Lysinger, mezzo-soprano, junior
“Va, laisse couler mes larmes”, Werther, Jules Massenet; Mahour Arbabian, piano.
NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor
BRITTON RECITAL HALL
- 10:00 a.m. – Trevor Scott, tenor, MM
“On Wenlock Edge”, On Wenlock Edge, Ralph Vaughan Williams; Julian Grabarek, piano - 10:30 a.m. – Mark He, tenor, MM
“Un aura amorosa”, Cosi fan tutte, W. A. Mozart; Kimia Rafieian, piano - 11:00 a.m. – Jono Taccolini, tenor, MM
- “Canticle 1: My Beloved is Mine”, Benjamin Britten; Joshua Marzan, piano
- 11:30 a.m. – Bo Shimmin, tenor, MM
“Waterbird”, Richard Hundley; “I Pastori”, Ildebrando Pizzetti; Natalie Sherer, piano.
DASHON BURTON, bass-baritone
KEVRESON REHEARSAL HALL
- 10:00 a.m. – Alan Williams, bass-baritone, Specialist
“Gremin’s Aria”, Eugene Onegin, Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Lydia Qiu, piano - 10:30 a.m. – Conor Brereton, tenor, MM
“Dies Bildnis”, Die Zauberflöte, W. A. Mozart; Mahour Arbabian, piano - 11:00 a.m. – Joshua Thomas, bass-baritone, MM
“O, Tod”, “Wenn ich mit Menschen”, Vier ernste Gesänge, Johannes Brahms; Mahour Arbabian, piano - 11:30 a.m. – Benjamin Powell, bass-baritone, junior
“Mentre ti lascio, o figlia”, W. A. Mozart; Joshua Marzan, piano