 Ken Cazan
Chair, Vocal Arts and Opera; Resident Stage Director, USC Thornton Opera Associate Professor Program:Vocal Arts and OperaDivision: Classical Performance and CompositionExpertise:Stage Directing Biography Ken Cazan is Chair of Vocal Arts and Opera and Resident Stage Director at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music where he has taught since 2004. Since beginning his directing career in 1984, he has directed more than 150 productions of operas, musical theater, and plays. His work has been seen in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Mexico. Recent career highlights include directing WEST SIDE STORY as the inaugural production for the new Kilden Theater complex in Kristiansand, Norway. Also recently, he directed Philip Glass’ rarely seen FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER in a co-production with the Long Beach Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, as well as a new production of Ned Rorem’s OUR TOWN for the Central City Opera where his work is frequently seen. Other career highlights include the American Opera house premiere of Britten’s rarely seen GLORIANA and the American premieres of Handel’s AGRIPPINA and Mozart’s MIDRIDATE, RE DI PONTO. He also directed LA BOHEME, conducted by Leonard Bernstein and recorded by Deutsche Grammaphon and RAI in Rome, Italy. The television broadcast was seen worldwide and has been repeated often.Other productions seen on television are FAUST and LA TRAVIATA for PBS, and PAGLIACCI, FAUST, SUOR ANGELICA, and WERTHER for the CBC in Canada. He also directed the world premiere and all subsequent performances of Lowell Liebermann’s and JD McClatchy’s MISS LONELYHEARTS which was commissioned for and performed by the Juilliard School in commemoration of their 100th anniversary. Mr. Cazan also directed a production of the Gershwin’s LADY BE GOOD! for the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Italy which marked the first time an Italian opera house had created a new production of an American musical.Upcoming work includes Jake Heggie’s DEAD MAN WALKING and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC both for the Central City Opera, as well as a collaboration with renowned maestro James Conlon of Britten’s THE PRODIGAL SON, in commemoration of the centenary of the composer’s birth which will be performed at the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, CA. In 2016, Mr. Cazan will direct the 60th anniversary production of Douglas Moore’s THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE for the Central City Opera, where the work originated. The production will star renowned American soprano Anna Christy. Cazan will also be acting as host and lead panel discussions for the LA presentations of the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcasts of Verdi’s FALSTAFF and Tchaikovsky’s EUGENE ONEGIN. Ken Cazan has also written the book and lyrics for PRODIGY, a musical about the life of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, with composer Billy Pace, which was performed at the Los Angeles Festival of New American Musicals. Currently, he has been commissioned to complete the in-progress opera FRAU SCHINDLER (working title) about the life of Emilie Schindler, wife of the well-known Oskar on which Cazan is writing the libretto, collaborating with composer Thomas Morse. The premiere will be at a major German opera house in the 2016-17 season. Mr. Cazan will also be the Stage Director.  Associate Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
rodgil@mac.com
Rod Gilfry has performed all the world's music capitals, including Vienna, Paris, London, Munich, Zurich, Milan, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Best-known as an opera singer, he is equally acclaimed as a recitalist and concert artist. He also has extensive experience as a Master of Ceremonies and as a cabaret artist. This Grammy-nominated singer’s discography includes 23 audio and video recordings, and the DVD and CD of his one-man show My Heart is So Full of You has just been released. His radio show, Opera Notes on Air, aired on Los Angeles’ largest Classical station, K-Mozart 105.1 FM for over three years. With a 40-role repertoire, Gilfry sings music from the Baroque to that composed expressly for him. He was brought to worldwide attention when he created the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1998 premiere of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire with the San Francisco Opera. Last fall, he created his fifth world premiere role as Jack London in the new opera Every Man Jack in Sonoma, California. Other appearances last season included Lionel in the San Francisco Opera production of Tchaikovsky’s Joan of Arc, Prospero in the American premiere of Thomas Ades’ The Tempest at the Santa Fe Opera, and Nathan in the American premiere of Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice in Washington D.C, a role he created in London in 2002.
In February, he sang De Guiche in Alfano’s Cyrano in Valencia, Spain,opposite Placido Domingo; in March he performed his one-man show at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, where he also gave a master class. In May, Gilfry appeared with the Los Angeles Opera as Count Danilo in Lehar’s operetta The Merry Widow. In June, he adjudicated the first annual José Iturbi Competition in Los Angeles and in July he appeared as Joe in Loesser’s musical The Most Happy Fella at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. In September, he was host and special guest artist in Concert Under the Stars at Cal State University Fullerton and taught a master class for the Classical Singer’s association. The 2007-08 season also saw Gilfry as baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zürich (October), Danilo in the Dallas Opera production of The Merry Widow (November/December), Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at Opera Pacific in Costa Mesa, California (January/February), a recital at the Barclay Theater in Irvine, California (January 8), an appearance in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Gala in Zankel Hall in New York’s Carnegie Hall (January 25) and Robert Storch in the Zürich Opera production of R. Strauss’ Intermezzo. Gilfry then went to Amsterdam to sing the title role in Messiaen’s monumental work Saint François d’Assise, and concluded the 2007-08 season in Japan with a five-city tour as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus under the direction of Seiji Ozawa.
 Gary Glaze
Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
glaze@usc.edu
(213) 740-3108 phone
Professor at the Flora L. Thornton School of Music is nationally known as a devoted teacher and advisor-mentor. His former and current students pursue significant singing careers throughout the U.S. and in Europe and have taken first place honors in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Placido Domingo’s Operalia, Zachary Competition, the World Music Masters Competition, NATS competitions. Born in Pittsburgh, Glaze came to the Thornton School in 1992, and served as Chair of the Vocal Arts and Opera Department from 1993-2005. As a compliment to his teaching, Glaze serves as an adjudicator for the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, Bel Canto Auditions, and gives master classes across the and in Europe.
Gary Glaze gained the attention of the music world during his many seasons with the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center and in regular appearances as a concert artist in New York at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Town Hall and at the Caramoor Festival. After debuting in the Metropolitan Opera’s Park Series as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, he joined the Met roster. Of his acclaimed European debut as Almaviva in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, Het Parool wrote, “A discovery of importance: an agile lyric tenor with the silken-like brilliance of the pure bel-canto.” Re-engagements in Amsterdam followed, along with successful debut performances at the Prague State Opera as Tamino and as Tom Rakewell at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
Well known for his lyrical and stylish singing, Glaze has been heard on NPR and PBS broadcasts from Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and he has performed with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, the Minnesota Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Raymond Leppard, and with Arthur Fiedler in his famous pops concerts. In demand as an oratorio artist Glaze has sung with symphony orchestras and choral societies across America, highlighted by performances with conductor Sir David Willcocks in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and the title roles in Britten’s St. Nicolas and in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. Chamber music collaboration is a particular love of Mr. Glaze, with performances at the Marlboro, Newport, Luzerne, San Luis Obispo, Mohawk Trails music festivals and at the Library of Congress.
 Elizabeth Hynes
Chair, vocal arts, Associate Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
(213) 740-2964 phone
ehynes@usc.edu
Elizabeth Hynes, a native of Michigan, now lives in Los Angeles. A faculty member at the USC Thornton School since 1995, she has recently been named chair of the vocal arts department. With a growing reputation as a vocal teacher and mentor, Ms. Hynes has adjudicated regularly for the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and is in demand as a master class presenter around the country. Her students are consistently among winners of important competitions, and appear frequently with professional opera companies and orchestras throughout the world.
Recent vocal performances included Britten’s Les Illuminations and War Requiem and Górecki’s Third Symphony with the composer conducting. Ms. Hynes has performed in major opera houses around the world, singing some of opera’s most demanding roles such as: Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Mimi in La Boheme, Marguérite in Faust and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Performances of Mozart roles such as Susanna, Pamina and the Countess in the PBS Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of Le Nozze di Figaro gained public and critical acclaim. Her European debut at the English National Opera was as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.
A sought-after concert artist, Ms. Hynes has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti and the orchestras of Cleveland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle and Los Angeles, among others. She has sung with the orchestras of Madrid, Barcelona, Vancouver and with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Vienna on two American tours.
Shigemi Matsumoto http://www.shigemimatsumoto.com Adjunct Assistant Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
(818) 366-5927 phone
shigemim@aol.com
Shigemi Matsumoto has performed with over 50 national and international opera companies including those in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Brussels (Belgium), Wolf Trap, Portland, Kansas City, San Antonio and Tucson. Her opera roles include Mimi, Musetta, Susanna, Micaela, Norina, Adina, Pamina, Despina, Rosina, Nanetta, Abigail, Adele and Zerlina.
She has performed with more than 60 national and international symphony orchestras including San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Minnesota, Houston, Lourdes (France), San Antonio and Denver. Ms. Matsumoto has given more than 300 solo recitals including recitals in the major cities of New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Tokyo, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, Houston and Dallas.
As a young singer, she won numerous national and regional awards and grants including First Prize in the Western Regional Metropolitan Auditions at the age of 21. At 22, she won the Grand Prize in the San Francisco Opera National Auditions, and with that, her first professional contract. She appears on two CDs with Luciano Pavarotti and one with the NBC Orchestra and has been nominated for and appears in nearly a dozen different Who’s Who publications. She was honored to be selected as Japanese Woman of the Year for Southern California. Ms. Matsumoto is the Founder and President of the CSA (classicalsingersassociation.com) a non-profit association of singers, dedicated towards developing the performance and professional singing skills of its members.
Many of her students have been among winners of various vocal competitions. Some have performed with opera companies including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Opera, San Diego Opera and Opera Pacific. Others have performed with international opera organizations in Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil and Chile. Others have been invited to summer programs in Santa Fe, Academy of the West, Glimmerglass, Salzburg and Graz.
 Brent McMunn
Assistant Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
(213) 740-6451 phone
opera@thornton.usc.edu
Brent McMunn is conductor/music director of USC Thornton Opera and assistant professor of vocal arts. His professional operatic conducting debut was with the New York City Opera National Touring Company in La fille du regiment. Shortly after, he made his Lincoln Center debut with the New York City Opera in Les contes d’Hoffmann, and subsequently conducted in four separate seasons for that company. McMunn came to opera after an established career as a pianist, known especially for his collaborations with a number of eminent string players, including Lynn Harrell, Cynthia Phelps, and Ronald Copes, now of the Juilliard Quartet, appearing at the major Southern California venues as well as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Carnegie Hall. His work in and love for opera began when he joined Grant Gershon as one of two pianists at the Los Angeles Opera in its early days. Concurrently, he was made director of opera at California State University, Long Beach, where he began conducting and produced a wide repertory of operas. After his New York conducting success, he went on to guest conduct at a number of North American companies, such as Arizona Opera, Calgary Opera, Lake George Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera New Jersey and Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, and spent several years as co-artistic director of the Ridgefield Opera Company in Connecticut. In addition to his conducting, his work as assistant and cover conductor at LA Opera, New York City Opera, and six seasons at the Santa Fe Opera, has given him a repertoire of over 70 operas, including those by Handel, Mozart, Puccini, the major Strauss operas, and a number of new works and premieres, with a special emphasis on the Bel Canto repertoire. He has continuously enjoyed working with young singers in the young artist programs of the major companies, as a coach at the Juilliard School, and as a faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival.
 Cynthia Munzer http://cynthiamunzer.com
Associate Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
(213) 740-5882 phone
munzer@usc.edu
Mezzo-soprano Cynthia Munzer has sung over 20 roles in 223 performances with the Metropolitan Opera, in New York at Lincoln Center, and on tour in the United States and Japan. Audiences across America have known her through weekly Metropolitan Opera Saturday Broadcasts and over 20 Met Opera broadcast recordings with Pavarotti, Milnes, Domingo, Sutherland, Caballé, Kraus, Corelli, Birgit Nillson, Scotto. Munzer has garnered rave reviews as a leading guest artist with over 90 opera companies and major symphony orchestras. L’Opéra de Montréal, the New York City, Dallas, Houston Grand, Florentine, and Washington Operas have presented Munzer in diverse leading roles such as Carmen, Amneris, Dame Quickly, and Octavian. She has been guest soloist with The Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, Los Angeles and Hong Kong Philharmonics, San Francisco, National, and American Symphonies.
Hailed in reviews for performances at the renowned Wolftrap, Aspen, Carmel, and Oregon Bach Music Festivals, and the New York Mozart Bicentennial Festival, her artistry is captured in a Live From Lincoln Center Telecast, a Gian Carlo Menotti world premiere, recorded performances with Aaron Copland, Leopold Stokowski, James Levine, and Zubin Mehta, and a special 9/11 Memorial Tribute CD with Metropolitan Opera artists.
Born in West Virginia and raised in Kansas, Munzer has been on the vocal arts faculty at the USC Thornton School since 1995 and is deeply committed to creative teaching and mentoring. Her students are winners of such national and world wide competitions as the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Berlin Opera, Prague Dvorak, and International Liszt competitions, have appeared in young artist programs of The Santa Fe Opera, Virginia Opera, and Chautauqua Opera, and have made leading role debuts at the New York City Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Munzer is increasingly sought after for her masterclass presentations in the United States as well as China, Taiwan, Croatia, British Columbia, Mexico, Austria, and Italy. The Metropolitan Opera National Council Masterclasses throughout the U.S., the Met Opera Guild in New York City, The Schubert Club Song Festival in MN, Celebrity Masterclasses-Classical Singer Convention NYC, Tuscia Opera Festival, Italy, and over a dozen major universities join the growing number of presenters.
 Parmer Fuller
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
(213) 740-7704 phone
parmerfuller@sbcglobal.net
Parmer Fuller, adjunct assistant professor, musical theatre, has written scores for twenty films, for television series and episodes, symphonies, a ballet, an opera, two musical comedies, choral and chamber works and songs. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Mr. Fuller has received the Henri Mancini Prize for dramatic composition and three Frank Sinatra Prizes for jazz arranging and jazz performance. As a concert and society pianist, he has entertained numerous celebrities, including Presidents Reagan, Bush and Ford, Helmet Schmidt, Vaclav Havel, Jimmy Stewart and Luciano Pavarotti. He has conducted various orchestras, including the Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra in a concert honoring and attended by Leonard Bernstein. He is music director of the San Diego Civic Light Opera at the Starlight Bowl, conducting three to six musicals there each year.
 Lisa Sylvester
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Vocal Arts and Opera
(213) 740-7704 phone
lisrik@earthlink.net
Biography
Lisa Sylvester enjoys an active career as collaborative pianist, coach and conductor. As pianist, she has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the L.A. Philharmonic New Music Group, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Santa Barbara Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, the Ventura County Master Chorale, Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Music Festival and on the "Sundays Live" broadcast concert series at the L.A. County Museum of Art. She has served as rehearsal accompanist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Simon Rattle and Kent Nagano and for Opera Pacific under music director John DeMain and the Pacific Chorale under conductor John Alexander. For several years, Ms. Sylvester has served on the musical staff of the acclaimed Long Beach Opera as repetiteur, orchestral pianist, assistant conductor and chorus master to Neal Stulberg and Andreas Mitisek. In the Spring of 2006 she gave presentations for L.A. Opera's Education and Community Outreach Programs.
In 1994, Ms. Sylvester completed her D.M.A. at the University of Southern California where she was named Outstanding Doctoral Graduate, and in 1993, she participated as Vocal Coach Fellow at the Tanglewood Summer Music Festival. Since 2003 she has been on the faculty of OperaWorks - a national summer training program for young singers under the artistic direction of Ann Baltz. Ms. Sylvester is currently on the faculty of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music where she is a vocal coach and teaches courses in Diction and Song Literature.
 David Wilkinson
Lecturer of Vocal Arts and Opera
(213) 740-7704 phone
dwilkins@usc.edu
Biography
David Wilkinson has concertized extensively in both the United States and Europe. Mr. Wilkinson has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Frederica Von Stade, Jane Eaglen, Markella Hatziano and Julia Migenes. While living in Italy he was an accompanist for the studios and master classes of Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Magda Olivero, among others. Highlights of past seasons include performances at the Kennedy Center and the White House in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York and London's Wigmore Hall. Mr. Wilkinson is a graduate of both the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Southern California. His teachers have included such imminent artists as Graham Johnson, Jeaneane Dowis, Kevin Fitz-Gerald and Seymour Lipkin.
Career Highlights:
- Made professional debut at 16
- Performed at White House, Carnegie Hall, Yale University
- Worked closely with operatic legend Tito Gobbi
- USC Thornton faculty since 2000.
Recordings:
- Faith in Spring with mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin and pianist Graham Johnson, Opera Omnia, London, 2004.
Academic Degrees
- MM, University of Southern California
- BM, Manhattan School of Music
 Lynn Helding
Associate Professor Program:Vocal Arts & OperaDivision: Classical Performance and CompositionExpertise:Voice Pedagogy Biography Lynn Helding recently joined the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music as Associate Professor of Practice in Vocal Pedagogy. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Singing and author of the journal’s “Mindful Voice” column, which illuminates current research in the cognitive, neuro- and social sciences as they relate to music teaching, learning and performance. Ms. Helding is a thought-leader within the dynamic field of contemporary voice science, or vocology and was elected to head the founding of the first vocology association, PAVA, incorporated in 2014 as a 501(c)(6) non-profit association. She was the 2005 recipient of the National Van Lawrence Fellowship, jointly awarded by the NATS Foundation and the Voice Foundation to those who have “demonstrated excellence in their profession as singing teachers, and have shown knowledge of voice science.” |
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