Kayo Iwama, Associate Director Distinction List 2015 The curriculum of the Vocal Arts Program fosters fearless entrepreneurial skills, unique artistic values, and provides access to contacts in the professional music world. These special aspects of the program, along with the support of the distinguished faculty, enable its graduates to lead lives in music that are diverse and wideranging. Below is a list of the accomplishments of the graduates of the Vocal Arts Program since it was established in 2006. Young Artist Programs/Festivals: Aldeburgh Festival BrittenPears Young Artist Program Aldeburgh Music Festival American Bach Soloists Academy American Institute of Musical Studies Amherst Early Music Festival Aspen Music Festival Bard Music Festival Bel Canto Institute Cartagena International Music Festival Chautauqua Institution Music Festival Cincinnati May Festival Colorado Music Festival Crested Butte Music Festival Deutsche Oper Berlin Ensemble Des Moines Metro Opera Apprenticeship Dornemann's International Vocal Arts Institute Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar Festival d'Aix en Provence Vocal Academy Fire Island Opera Festival Grant Park Music Festival International Vocal Arts Institute, Montreal Klangspuren Festival L’Académie Internationale d’Été de Nice La Lingua della Lirica Los Angeles Opera DomingoThornton Young Artist Program Lyric Opera of Chicago Ryan Opera Center Macao International Music Festival Marlboro Music Festival Metropolitan Opera, Lindemann Young Artist Development Program Mostly Mozart Festival Mozarteum International Summer Academy Music Academy of the West
New Horizon Festival (Aspen Music Festival) New Music Gathering at San Francisco Conservatory and Center for New Music New Wave Festival Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute Oberlin in Italy Ojai Music Festival Opera in the Ozarks Opera on the Avalon OperaWorks Pacific Music Work’s Accademia d’Amore "Queen of Puddings" contemporary song course with John Hess & Dáirine Ní Ravinia Festival Saito Kinen Festival San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship San Francisco Opera Merola Program Santa Fe Opera Apprenticeship Savannah Voice Festival SongFest Stratford Summer Music Festival Sugar Creek Festival Tafelmusik Summer Baroque Institute Tanglewood Festival Tel Aviv International Vocal Arts Institute Token Creek Chamber Music Festival Urbino Musica Antica Vancouver International Song Institute Vancouver National Song Institute. Verdi Square Festival Wendy Nielsen's Opera Workshop Intensive Winter Creative Music Residency Fellowship at the Banff Centre for the Arts Wolf Trap Opera Professional Activities/Appearances: 21st Century Consort Albany Symphony Amarillo Opera American Repertory Theater American Symphony Orchestra Annapolis Opera Ars Lyrica Ash Lawn Opera Astral Artist Back Bay Chorale Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Bearded Ladies Cabaret Berkshire Bach Society Berlin Philharmonic’s Orchestra Academy Boston Baroque
Boston Pops Boston Symphony Orchestra Bouffes du Nord Carnegie Hall Chicago Symphony Orchestra Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Cleveland Orchestra Contemporaneous Da Capo Chamber Players Early Music Vancouver El Paso Opera Embassy Series, Washington, D.C. Ensemble Sans Maître; Nouveau Classical Firesong Ensemble (cofounder) Flint Symphony Gotham Chamber Opera Grand Harmonie Handel & Haydn Society Handel Opera Project Hawaii Opera Theatre Hotel Elefant (Experiments in Opera) Houston Grand Opera Chorus Houston Symphony Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra International Ensemble Modern Academy Juilliard Chamber Orchestra Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra Kennedy Center Kennedy Center recitals Le Poisson Rouge Le Train Bleu Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra Lincoln Center London Symphony Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon recording) Lyric Opera of Chicago Magic Flute (international tour of Peter Brook's adaptation) Martina Arroyo Foundation Maryland Lyric Opera Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Opera Chorus (current member) Metropolitan Philharmonic Mobile Symphony and Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Nashville Symphony National Arts Centre Orchestra National Symphony Orchestra
New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra New York City Opera New York Opera Exchange New York Philharmonic New York Society for Ethical Culture recital Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra Nouveau Classical Project Ongakujuku Opera Japan Tour Opera Cabal at The Kitchen in New York Opera de Nice Opera de Versailles Opéra Français de New York Opera New Jersey Opera Paralèlle Opera Philadelphia OperaRox Presents Opera Slavica Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Alice Tully Hall in the Young Concert Artists Gala Concert Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Philip Glass Ensemble Phoenix Symphony Piccolo Teatro Princeton Symphony Radio Kamer Filharmonie Riverside Symphony Roanoke College Symphony Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Sacramento Opera San Francisco Contemporary Music Players San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music San Francisco Opera Chorus San Francisco Symphony SarasotaManatee Scrooge: The Musical (national tour) Seoul Arts Center Seoul City Opera Southwest Florida Symphony Spectrum NYC St. Paul Chamber Orchestra String Orchestra of Brooklyn Symphonie Atlantique Synchronomy Talea Ensemble The Knight Foundation The Song Continues series at Carnegie Théatre de Caen Toronto Symphony Orchestra Tulsa Symphony
United States Coast Guard Band Soloist United States Naval Academy Glee Club Utah Opera Utah Symphony Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra Washington National Opera Chorus (current member) West End Wild Rumpus (member of contemporary music ensemble) PostGraduate Programs: Curtis Institute Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music McGill University (Drama & Theatre degree) University of Houston, Graduate Program in Speech Language Pathology New England Conservatory The Juilliard School University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Opera Studio University of North Texas Competitions: Académie International d'été de Nice Competition Brian Law Competition CAM’s 2010 Heida Hermanns International Voice Competition (winner) Canada Council for the Arts Grant Canadian Music Competition Civic Morning Musicals Vocal Competition (finalist) Classical Singer Competition 2013 Connecticut Opera Guild Vocal Competition (winner) East Bay Opera League Vocal Competition (4th place) Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement in the Arts Gerda Lissner Song Competition 2011, 2015 Giulio Gari Foundation CareerBridges Competition (winner) Grand Junction Symphony Competition 2014 Heida Hermann Vocal Competition (winner) Irene Dalis Vocal Competition (2012) James Toland Vocal Competition (finalist) Joy in Singing 2014 (winner) Licia AlbanesePuccini Foundation Vocal Competition Liederkranz Competition (finalist) Loren L. Zachary Society Vocal Competition Louis Quilico Voice Competition Luis Mariano Song Competition 2014 Lyndon Woodside New York Oratorio Society Competition (3rd place) Marcella Kochańska Sembrich Competition 2015 (winner) Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition (winner) Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition 2009 Winner Metropolitan Opera New York District Auditions 2007 Winner
Metropolitan Opera San Diego District Auditions 2015 Winner Metropolitan Opera Western Regional Auditions Finalist Opera Columbus Irma M. Cooper Vocal Competition (4th prize) 2012 Opera Index Encouragement Award 2013 Orpheus Vocal Competition 2014 Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition 2009 (winner) Pasadena Opera Guild Vocal Competition (winner) Philharmonic Society of Arlington, Peter Tannenwald Award Richard Tucker Foundation Award (winner) Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year 2008 (semifinalist) Walter W. Naumburg International Vocal Competition 2014 (winner) Wilhelm Stenhammer Competition 2014 William C. Byrd Competition 2014 28th Young Patronesses of the Opera National Voice Competition (Junior Opera Guild Grand Prize) Administrative: Bard College Conservatory of Music Admissions Counselor Bard Conservatory Prep Division (voice teacher, ensemble director, and diction teacher) Contemporaneous (Executive Director) Freelance artistic coordinator for composers & singers Met National Council Auditions (associate director, 2011present) New Docta International Music Festival in Cordoba (cofounder, director) NotforProfit Work: Artists Striving to End Poverty (2007present) public relations associate at Kirshbaum Associates (artist management company) Ravinia's Steans Music Institute Program for Singers (artistic coordinator) Resonant Bodies Festival (director) Scrag Mountain Music (founder, artistic director) Shanti Bhavan School & Teach for India (taught in India) SongFest (administrative director) The Tenor Chef Catering (founder) Ubuntu Education Fund (taught in South Africa) Recording Releases: "In Time" album New American Song @ SongFest album (Libby Larsen's "Neruda Songs") Portrait solo album Rising at Dawn: Chamber Music with Brass by Carson Cooman (featured soloist) “Rumi Songs” recording with Yang Jing Film/TV: Law & Order The HundredFoot Journey The Producers
Name Voice Type Professional Website
Julie Miller MezzoSoprano http://www.juliemillermezzo.com
Maghan McPhee Soprano http://www.maghanmcphee.com
Yulia Van Doren Soprano http://www.yuliavandoren.com
Chanel Wood Soprano http://chanelwood.net
Patrick Cook Tenor http://www.patrickcooktenor.com
Solange Merdinian MezzoSoprano http://www.solangemerdinian.com Rachel Schutz Soprano http://www.rachelschutz.com
Ariadne Greif Soprano http://www.ariadnegreifsoprano.com Celine Mogielnicki Soprano http://celinemogielnicki.com
Katarzyna Sądej Soprano http://katarzynasadej.com Julia Bullock Soprano http://www.juliabullock.com Clarissa Lyons Soprano http://www.clarissalyons.com Faylotte Crayton Soprano http://faylottejoycrayton.com
Lucy Dhegrae Soprano http://www.lucydhegrae.com
Vanessa Langer Soprano http://www.vanessalanger.com Matthew Morris Baritone http://matthewpatrickmorris.com Abigail Levis MezzoSoprano http://www.abigaillevis.com Marie Marquis Soprano http://www.mariemarquis.com Barrett Radziun Tenor http://www.barrettradziun.com Jacquelyn Stucker Soprano http://www.jacquelynstucker.com Vincent Festa Tenor http://www.vincentfestatenor.com Sara Lemesh MezzoSoprano http://saralemesh.com
Lucy Fitz Gibbon Soprano http://www.lucyfitzgibbon.com
Michael Hofmann Baritone http://www.michaelhofmannbaritone.com
Helen Huang Soprano http://helenhuangsoprano.com
Katherine Maysek MezzoSoprano http://katherinemaysek.com/ Sarah Tuttle Soprano http://www.sarahtuttlesoprano.com
