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| Voice Department |
T. Alan Bowers
Voice Department. Singer. Leading opera roles with San Francisco Opera,
Artpark Festival (N.Y.), Kansas City Lyric Opera, Virginia Opera, Cleveland Opera,
New Jersey State Opera, Die Staedische Buehnen Osnabrueck, Brooklyn Academy of
Music's New Wave Series, National Public Radio's broadcast of Phillip Glass' Satyagraha. Concert
and oratorio performances with regional symphonies. Premieres of works
by Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek, Beverly Crigsby, Allen Trubitt, and
Steven Douglas Burton. Teaching experience: California State University,
Northridge; Teachers College, Columbia University; University of Hawaii;
Simpson College. Training: M.M., University of Oklahoma. Member:
Board of Directors, New York Singing Teachers Association. |
| Amy Cheifetz Voice Department.
Singer.Regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards
and guest artist with Pacific Northwest Chambers Chorus. Opera roles include: Lauretta in Gianni
Schicchi, Alice Ford in Falstaff and Despina in Cosi fan Tutte. Training:
doctoral candidate, University of Washington; M.M., University of Washington;
B.M., University of California, Irvine. Voice studies with Julian Patrick,
Cornelius Reid. |
| Anne Cotton
Chair, Voice Department. Singer, conductor. Performed a one-woman
Noel Coward revue, in addition to regional, university, opera, chamber music, oratorio,
and concert appearances. Teaching experience: SUNY/New Paltz, Millikin University, and Skidmore
College. Training: M.M., University of Illinois; B.M., Syracuse University. Additional study
in N.Y.C. and Italy. |
| Mary Feeney Voice Department.
Singer, actress. Received critical acclaim for performances in South Pacific,
Angelique, Masquerade, Twelfth Night, and Love's Labour Lost with such
companies as the St. Paul Opera Company and Michael Moriarity's Potters
Field Theatre Company. Other credits include regional, stock, dinner theatre,
opera, concerts, sacred music, and cabaret. Previous teaching includes
the Metropolitan Music School. Training: B.M., Boston Conservatory of Music;
graduate study, Boston University. Member AEA, AGMA. |
 Christian Fletcher Voice
Department. Tenor. Performed with the opera companies of Santa Fe,
Vancouver, Longwood, Banff, and Manhattan School. Performances include:
Tom in Rake's Progress at Opera San Jose, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor,
and Ferrando in Cosi fan Tatte with Opera in the Heights (Houston), Tybalt
in Romeo and Juliette with Opera Northeast, Macheath in Rockland Opera's
The Threepenny Opera, and a leading role in the debut of The Winter of
the Fall at the John Houseman Theatre. Training: B.A.,Voice, Peabody
Conservatory of Music; Artist Certificate in Musical Theatre, Banff School
of Fine Arts; Graduate Diploma, New England Conservatory of Music. |
| Melanie Galloway Voice Department
Singer, vocal coach. Performed opera and musical theatre extensively thoughout
the United States and Europe. Principal roles: La Boheme, Die Fledermaus, Le Nozze di
Figaro, Carmen, Dialogue of the Carmelites, and I Pagliacci. Awards: The
Metropolitan Opera National Council Award, Dallas/Fort Worth Opera Award,
the National Marguerite McCammon Award for Vocal Excellence, the EPCA SO
Vocal Scholarship for study in Italy, and the Dorothy Gunzales Young Artist
Award. Training: Doctorate in Musical Arts, University of Illinois; masters,Vocal
Performance/ Opera, Indiana University. |
| Mary Hurlbut Voice Department.
Singer. Performance credits include opera, oratorio, recitals, and chamber
music. Worked with Aaron Copland, John Cage, Lucas Foss, Chen Yi, and Elodie Lauten. Performed with the
New Music Consort, Downtown Music Players, Soho Baroque Opera
Company, Cygnus Ensemble, and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Performances
have included U.S. and world premieres, Weill Recital Hall,
Symphony Space, and radio broadcasts. Her voice-overs have been used
in performance at Alice Tully Hall. Training: Mannes College of Music;
student of Antonia Lavanne. |
| Tessa Lang Voice Department.
Mezzo-Soprano. Performs in opera, oratorio, concert, and musical theatre.
Opera roles include Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutle, and
Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. Performed throughout Europe and the Eastern United States.
Teaching experience: The Dalcroze School of Music and Fordham University.
Training: M.A., Munich Conservatory, Germany; B.A., Muhlenberg College
& Ithaca College. Additional training: Chautauqua Festival of the Arts. |
| Joan Lindstrom Voice Department.
Singer, writer. Five seasons, New York City Opera. Other New York credits:
soloist-opera, oratorio, symphony, concert, recital, cabaret, film. Musical
Theatre: 35 Broadway shows, stock, tour. English diction coach, Metropolitan
Opera National Company (inaugural season). SAG conservatory-Brain Gym workshops.
Sings in 11 languages. Over 40 artsrelated articles published in newspapers
and magazines, including The New York Times and The Westsider. Training:
M.A., Manhattan School of Music; B.A., Augustana College. Additional study:
educational kinesiology, Brain Gym. Member: AEA, AGMA. |
| John Mack Ousley Voice Department.
Singer. Appearances with The Metropolitan Opera, Houston Opera, Philadelphia
Lyric Opera, Washington Opera Society, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, Denver Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Has sung
with the American Ballet Theatre, Newport Music Festival, The Festival
of Sion Switzerland, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. Toured in the United
States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East as soloist with the Roger Wagner
Chorale, Amor Artis, the Japan Orchestral Society, and the New York Ensemble
for Early Music. Appeared on Broadway in the jazz version of The Coronation
of Poppea and on Mitch Miller television specials (NBC). Training: masters,
The Juilliard School; baccalaureate, Baylor University. |
| Sherry Overholt Voice Department.
Soprano. Appeared with the Glimmerglass, Kentucky, Sarasota, Virginia,
Toledo, Augusta, Memphis, and Indianapolis Opera companies. Roles include:
Violetta, Marzelline, Zerlina, Musetta, Gilda in addition to light opera
roles of Kathie in The Student Prince, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance,
and Josephine in HMS. Pinafore. Drew international acclaim for the title
role in Frank Lewin's Burning Bright. Debuts include The Portland Symphony,
Sang three seasons with the Columbia Artist Community Concert Series, five
seasons with the Baltimore Symphony, and performed over 100 concerts in
the past two years with Lee Velta, baritone. Teaching experience: Yale
University, Hartt School, SUNY Purchase, BOCES Cultural Art Center. Training: M.A., D.M.A.,
under the guidance of Phyllis Curtin, Yale University. Additional training:
voice studies with Joan Caplan, Richard Hughes, and Ruth Falcon. |
| Donna S. Reid Voice Department.
Singer. Sang the role of Eva in the world premiere of the opera Montag
Aus Lich by Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as La Rondine in the opera Il Principe
Felice by Franco Mannino at La Scala in Milan, Italy. Sang the role of La Vecchia Signora
in the world premiere of Soltanto Il Rogo by Franco Mannino at the Teatro
Massimo in Palermo, Italy. Sang concerts and operas throughout Europe,
appeared on Italian and German television, and recorded various contemporary
songs and operas. Training: Northwestern University; master class in Florence,
Italy, with Tito Gobbi; Cornelius L. Reid. For the past three years,
assistant to Cornelius Reid. |
 Eileen Schauler Voice Department.
Singer, coach. Made her New York City Opera debut in the title role of
the American premiere of Shostakovich's Katerina Ismailova and sang 24
leading roles with the New York City Opera for 15 years. Made her Broadway
debut in the title role of My Darlin'Aida. Other credits include Der Rosenkavalier
with the Metropolitan Opera. Soloist with major symphony orchestras
plus extensive regional and Canadian opera appearances. More than
1700 performances of operetta and musical theatre, recitals, radio, and television (PBS's Live From
Lincoln Center, Anna Maurrant in Kurt Weill's Street Scene). Training:
Juilliard School; undergraduate and graduate study with the Juilliard Opera Theatre.
Listed in Who's Who in Opera. Member: AEA, AFTRA, AGMA (Vice
President for 10 years). |
 Jacklyn Schneider Voice Department.
Singer, coach. Sang the title role in several productions of Puccini's
Tosca, including with the Opera Company of Boston under the direction of
Sarah Caldwell, the Kentucky Opera Association, on tour with Boris Goldovsky's
Opera Theatre, and Opera Northeast. Other credits: San Francisco Opera,
Philadelphia Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and the Aspen Music Festival.
Appeared with Opera at Rutgers as Lady Billows in Albert Herring, Ariadne
in Ariadne auf Naxos, and as Antonina in Donizetti's rarely heard Belisario.
Lecture-recitals include: Wagner: Women and Redemption and Richard Strauss's
Kraemerspiegel: Satire in Song. Recipient of grants from the Corbett, W.M.
Sullivan, and M. Kaufmann-Ruud Foundations and the Metropolitan Opera.
As a first-prize winner of the Joy in Singing competition, she made her
New York recital debut at Town Hall. Member: NATS. Teaching experience:
New York University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University;
private studio. Training: D.M.A., Mason Gross School of the Arts; Performer's
Certificate in Voice and Opera, B.M., post-graduate study, Eastman School
of Music. |
| Johannes Schwaiger Voice
Department. Tenor, coach. A member of the cast of Cats, in the role
of Old Deuteronomy from 1992-1994, and Gus Growltiger in the Operettenhaus in the
city of Hamburg, Germany. Appeared throughout Europe and the Eastern U.S. in concert
work. Recorded a collection of German Christmas songs in concert with wife, Tessa Lang,
on compact disc. Signed a recording contract with CBS Records at the age
of nine. Training: B.M., M.M., The Richard-Strauss Conservatory, Munich.
Performance certificate under Kammersanger Friedrich Lenz of the
Bayerische Staatsoper (National Theatre) Munich, Germany. Additional studies:
John Alexander of the Metropolitan Opera. Awards: Richard Wagner
Stipend of Bayreuth and the Walter Kaminsky Stipend, Munich, Germany. |
| Wendy Sharp Voice Department.
Singer, actress. Appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony, Grant
Park Festival, Masterwork Chorus, and in solo, chamber music, and oratorio concerts, live and on
radio and television. Opera performances with Sante Fe Opera, Illinois
Opera Guild, and numerous New York-area and regional companies include such
roles as Fiordiligi, Pamina, Mimi, and Suor Angelica. Recipient of a
Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant and regional winner in the Metropolitan
Opera auditions. Performed in stock runs as Lola in Damn Yankees and
Carrie in Carousel. Training: B.F.A., Chicago Conservatory College.
Additional training: The Juilliard School, Boston Conservatory of Music,
Boris Goldovsky Opera Institute. Founding member of the Magic Circle Opera
Repertory Ensemble. Member: AEA, AGMA. |
| Rachel Sparer Voice Department.
Singer. Title roles: Vanessa with the Kansas City Lyric Opera, Ariadne
auf Naxos at the 1993 Broomhill Music Festival; leading roles in Turandot, Norma,
Don Giovanni, and the Mascagni opera Silvano at Carnegie Hall which was recorded by Elysium
Records. Sang Agathe in Der Freischuetz and Elisabeth in Tannhauser
at the Liedenkranz Opera Theatre and debuted with the Cincinnati Opera
in Die Zaubertfloete. Concert credits: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the
Honolulu Symphony and Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder with the Trenton Sym-
phony. Awards: Third Prize in the Verviers International Vocal Competition
in Belgium and First Prize in the Wagner division of the Liederkranz
Competition. Received grants from the Sullivan Foundation, the Martha
Moore Smith Foundation, and the Metropolitan Opera. Training: B.A., Northwestern
University. Additional studies: American Institute for Musical Studies,
Graz, Austria; International Institute of Vocal Arts, Chiari, Italy. |
| Dorothy Claire Stone Voice
Department. Singer. Performed internationally in opera, operetta,
concert, and musical theatre, including appearances with the San Francisco Opera,
Festival Aix-les-Bains (France), Academia Vocale di Lucca (Italy), and in concert
at Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow). Recipient of a career grant awarded by the AROP association
of the Paris Opera to study operatic repertoire with Regine Crespin in
Paris. Performed solo recitals in France, Italy, Austria, Greece, England,
and the U.S. Training: protege of Cornelius L. Reid; Harvard University,
Mannes College of Music, University of Southern California. |
| Bradley Vieth Voice Department.
Conductor, pianist. Conducting credits: The Grand Duchess (Chicago Opera
Theatre); L'Enfant et les Sortileges (Dorian Opera Theatre); Wings (Joseph Papp Public Theatre)
(cast album); A Little Night Music (Joseph Jefferson Award-Best Musical Direction);
and Another Midsummer Night (Goodman Theatre); Triumph of Love (Baltimore
Center Stage and Yale Repertory Theatre). Resident Conductor at Theater
Hagen, Germany. Repertoire included Cavalleria Rusticana, The Abduction
from the Seraglio, and Cabaret. European tours: Carmen, Little Shop of
Horrors, On the Town, West Side Story, and Chicago.
Teaching experience: University of Texas, Opera Department; University
of Minnesota at Duluth. Training: B.M., Oberlin Conservatory; M.M.,
The University of Texas at Austin; postgraduate work, The University of
Texas at Austin. |
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