 R. Timothy McReynolds
Lecturer, Art Song Voice/Opera Division CONTACT:
+1 301 405 5611 B.M. Indiana University, M.M. University of Michigan, D.M.A. University of Maryland Enjoying a career that embraces art song, opera, chamber music, and cabaret, pianist R. Timothy McReynolds is also active as a teacher and vocal coach. He is a member of the Voice/Opera faculty of the University of Maryland, School of Music, and the former Music Director of Towson University’s Music for the Stage. He has participated as vocal coach/pianist for the Washington National Opera’s Opera Institute and the Aspen Music Festival. He was Instructor of Piano at American University in Washington, D.C. and Loyola University of Maryland, where he remains as pianist for the Vocal Masterclass Series. He has toured internationally in concerts, cabarets, and masterclasses in Mexico, Germany, Italy, and Austria, as well as across the United States. He also performed in recital with acclaimed bass-baritone, the late William Warfield. He has been heard with, among others, Linda Mabbs, Isabel Leonard, Timothy Mix, Danielle Talamantes, and Laura Strickling. The Washington Post hails him as the, “perceptive accompanist”, the Baltimore Sun, an “excellent pianist”, while the website Classical Journal proclaims him as the “brilliant accompanist” in a recital with mezzo-soprano, Delores Ziegler. He continues his close association with the Washington (D.C.) Vocal Arts Society and their Discovery Recital Series. Recent concert venues include the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Washington, D.C., the Maryland Arts Festival in Baltimore, a state tour of Maryland with the Annapolis (MD) Symphony, the Egyptian Embassy Concert Series in Vienna, Austria, and both the Stern Auditorium with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In the Spring of 2012 he played (and sang) the world premier of Dominick Argento's Cabaret Songs with Linda Mabbs at the University of Maryland. He also recently returned from playing two recitals at International ClarinetFest in Assisi, Italy.
Dr. McReynolds received his B.M. from Indiana University, M.M. from the University of Michigan, and completed his D.M.A. at the University of Maryland. His teachers have included Edward Auer, Martin Katz, Jeffrey Gilliam, Robert McCoy and Rita Sloan.
He recently recorded a CD of new music on the Sono Luminus label with Washington, D.C.'s Inscape Chamber Orchestra, "Sprung Rhythm." Other recent recordings include a CD of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with tenor Bryce Westervelt, and another with the chamber music group, Greenbrook Ensemble. His recent concert schedule includes venues in New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Italy.
 Edward Maclary
Professor, Conducting Director, Choral Activities Voice/Opera Division CONTACT:
+1 301 405 4561 B.M.E. University of Delaware, M.M. Boston University, D.M., Indiana University Edward Maclary became the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Maryland School of Music in 2000. He was named Professor of Music in 2006. Under his direction the UMD Choirs have gained international renown for excellence in performance and programming. Edward Maclary is the music director and conductor of the University of Maryland Chamber Singers, the most elite of the School of Music’s six full-time choral ensembles. The UMD Chamber Singers have toured and recorded extensively and won prizes in top international competitions. In 2011 the ensemble was awarded the Premier Prix for Mixed Choirs and the Prix Ronsard for Renaissance performance at the Florilège Vocal de Tours and Maclary was honored as the competition’s “Chef de Choeur.” In August 2014 the UMD Chamber Singers will travel to Seoul, South Korea to represent the United States with performances under Maclary’s direction at the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music sponsored by the International Federation for Choral Music. Regarded as an outstanding clinician and educator, Edward Maclary maintains an active schedule as guest conductor for choral festivals and honors choirs throughout the United States and around the world. In 2012 he conducted the Collegiate Honors Choir at the ACDA Central Division Convention and the Pennsylvania All State Choir. In 2013 he served as the Artist in Residence for the Eastman School of Music Summer Choral Institute. Most recently he was named Director of the Master Class in Conducting for the Oregon Bach Festival beginning in June 2014. He will be the guest conductor for the 2014 Spivey Hall Honor Choir in Atlanta, Georgia. Maclary has served as the chorus master for conductors such as Robert Shaw, Christoph Eschenbach, Marin Alsop, Iván Fischer, Helmuth Rilling, Robert Spano, Matthew Halls and Bobby McFerrin. Choruses under his direction have performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra.
UMD Choirs appear regularly at conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, and the National Association for Music Education. Most recently the UMD Chamber Singers were the featured performers at the 2013 NCCO National Conference in Charleston SC and in February 2014 they will serve as the ensemble for conducting master classes to be led by Simon Carrington at the ACDA Eastern Division Convention in Baltimore.
Since 2003 the UMD Concert Choir has maintained an annual collaborative relationship with the National Symphony Orchestra and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, receiving praise from critics and audiences alike. Repertoire with the NSO has included Handel’s “Messiah”, the Bach “St. Matthew Passion” and the “Mass in B minor”, and Haydn’s “Creation” Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”, and most recently in March 2013, the Mozart “Requiem” under the baton of NSO Music Director Christoph Eschenbach. In November 2013 the UMD Concert Choir made their debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in widely hailed performances of the Benjamin Britten “War Requiem” led by BSO Music Director Marin Alsop. Just one month later the ensemble made an acclaimed appearance with Pops Director Steven Reinecke for the NSO Holiday Pops Concerts. Upcoming collaborations include music of Bruckner with the NSO in June 2014 and concerts of Bach Cantatas with the NSO and guest conductor Helmuth Rilling in December 2014.
Edward Maclary received his doctoral degree in conducting with honors from the Indiana University School of Music after having been awarded a graduate degree in musicology from Boston University. In the following years he worked closely on many projects with Robert Shaw and also studied and collaborated with Helmuth Rilling, Margaret Hillis, and Robert Page.
 Justina Lee
Lecturer, Voice/Opera Principal Coach, Maryland Opera Studio Voice/Opera Division CONTACT:
+1 301 405 5528 (M.M., University of California, Los Angeles; M.M., Manhattan School of Music) Originally from San Francisco, Justina Lee joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park Opera studio as principal coach in 2008. She has worked as an assistant conductor/pianist and coach for the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Lorin Maazel’s Châteauville Foundation, the CoOperative Program at Rider University, and Centro Studi Italiani in Urbania, Italy. She has been a collaborative artist with the Cleveland Art Song Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West. Ms. Lee received a Master of Music in piano performance from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Music in accompanying from the Manhattan School of Music. Concert performances include recitals with tenor Lawrence Brownlee as well as residencies with the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Châteauville Foundation, and the Manchester Music Festival.
 Craig Kier
Director, Maryland Opera Studio Voice/Opera Division CONTACT:
301-405-8742 B.M.E., State University of New York College at Fredonia; M.M. Accompanying, U. of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music In the ’14-’15 season, Craig Kier makes his conducting debuts with Opera Birmingham leading Hamlet and Opera Santa Barbara leading L’Italiana in Algeri. He also begins his appointment as Director of the Maryland Opera Studio where he will conduct Così fan tutte, L’enfant et les sortilèges, and L’occasione fa il ladro. In addition, Kier continues his relationship with Houston Grand Opera as guest cover conductor and joins Houston Ballet for his fourth season as guest conductor leading The Nutcracker. In the ’13-’14 season, Kier made his conducting debuts with Lyric Opera of Kansas City leading La bohème, Central City Opera leading The Sound of Music, and Maryland Opera Studio leading Albert Herring. At Houston Grand Opera, he led performances of Die Fledermaus, the world premiere of the East + West chamber opera Bound, and returned to Atlanta Opera to conduct Il barbiere di Siviglia. Kier’s ’12/’13 season highlights include his conducting debut with Glimmerglass Opera leading Weill's Lost in the Stars and his Royal Opera House debut in Muscat, Oman, leading The Music Man. Kier made his HGO conducting debut leading Madama Butterfly in 2011 and returned to conduct Il barbiere di Siviglia the following season. He made his conducting debut leading Gianni Schicchi in a joint project between Seattle Opera and the Yakima Symphony Orchestra and subsequently conducted Orfeo and Euridice, The Magic Flute, and Porgy and Bess for Atlanta Opera. To learn more about Craig Kier, please visit his website: http://www.craigkier.com/
 Nick Olcott
Lecturer, Scene Study
Phone: 301-405-5546
B.A., Yale University
Nick Olcott has been active in opera and theatre as an actor, writer, and director for more than twenty years. For the Maryland Opera Studio at the UM School of Music, he has directed L'elisir d'amore, Serse, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Turn of the Screw, Il matrimonio segreto, Le nozze di Figaro, La finta giardiniera, and Die Zauberfloete. His opera credits elsewhere include Roméo et Juliette and The Turn of the Screw (Opera Cleveland), The Daughter of the Regiment (Boston Lyric Opera), Cosi fan tutte (Capital City Opera and the In Series), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bel Cantanti Opera) and The Impresario/ Viva la Mamma (Wolf Trap Opera). For this last production he was also commissioned to write a new libretto and provide translation for The Impresario, to unite the two pieces into one evening.
Mr. Olcott's theatre credits include The Miracle Worker at the Arena Stage, Sylvia at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream at People's Light and Theatre Company, and numerous productions at the Round House Theatre, where he is a member of the Artists' Roundtable. He directs frequently for the Kennedy Center Family Theatre, including the world premiere and national tours of Judith Viorst's musical Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and its sequel, Alexander Who is Not, Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move. He has also directed several productions at the Theatre J, Washington Jewish Theatre, Metrostage, and the Delaware Theatre Company. For radio he has directed All My Sons (starring Julie Harris and James Farentino), The Heiress (starring Amy Irving and Chris Noth) and Seven Days in May (starring Ed Asner). Other radio productions (all for the Voice of America and the Smithsonian Institution in partnership with LATheatreworks) include The Gin Game, A Lesson Before Dying, and The Diary of Anne Frank. For the UM Department of Theatre he has directed The Music Man and his own adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. He was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction for his production of All in Timing at the Round House Theatre.
As a writer, Nick Olcott has received two Helen Hayes nominations for his adaptations of Henry James produced by the Washington Stage Guild (The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw), and his musical play Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience received the 1998 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play. Other writing projects include an adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Pearl, which premiered at the Kennedy Center and toured nationally, and a radio adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' American Appetites, which received performances in front of live studio audiences in Los Angeles and Washington (both starring Keith Carradine). His English-language adaptation Cosi fan tutte Goes Hollywood has received numerous productions.
Mr. Olcott is a faculty member of the Maryland Opera Studio at the UM School of Music and a board member of the Playwrights' Forum. A native of Red Lodge, Montana, he graduated from Yale University in 1978. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors' Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and the American Guild of Musical Artists.
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