WILLIAM BURDEN
Email:
burdenw@newschool.edu
Profile:
American tenor William Burden has won an outstanding reputation in a wide-ranging repertoire throughout Europe and North America.
He has appeared in many prestigious opera houses in the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, New Orleans Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Thèâtre du Châtelet, Bayerische Staatsoper, Berliner Staatsoper, Madrid’s Teatro Real and the Saito Kinen Festival.
In concert, Mr. Burden has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Edinburgh Festival, and on tour with Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Barcelona and Lyon.
Mr. Burden’s recordings include Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media), Barber’s Vanessa (Anatol) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Chandos) and Musique adorable: The Songs of Emmanuel Chabrier (Hyperion). He also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's Grammy award winning live HD broadcast of Thomas Adès' The Tempest.
AMY BURTON
Professor of Professional Practice
Email:
burtona@newschool.edu
Profile:
Career Awards: 2006 Opera America Artist Advocate Award. New York City Opera: 2005 Diva Award, 2000 Christopher Keene Award and1998 Kolosvar Award for distinction in unusual repertoire. Competitions: Winner, 1997 Gerda Lissner Foundation Awards, Silver Medalist, 1995 Marian Anderson International Vocal Competition, George London Awards and Sullivan Foundation grant. Professional debut with San Diego Opera.
Performance: Leading soprano with Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Scottish Opera, L'Opéra de Nice, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Wexford Festival, Saito Kinen Festival (Japan), Japan Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, L’Orchetre Pasdeloup, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, St. Luke's Chamber, Philharmonia Baroque, Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Utah Symphony, American Composers Orchestra.
Concerts: Recitals/Cabaret with John Musto: Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub, Café Sabarsky, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), Lincoln Center Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Great Performers Series, Library of Congress, L'Opéra Français de New York (LOFNY), National Arts Club, Liceu (Barcelona) and Miller Theater. Concerts in Rome, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Paris; Appearances with major American orchestras and opera companies.NY recital debut at 92nd Street Y, 1997, Tokyo String Quartet, Trio Solisti, Moab Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Conductors: Yves Abel, Marin Alsop, Serge Baudo, Daniel Beckwith, Harry Bicket, Richard Bonynge, James Conlon, John DeMainChristoph Eschenbach, Jane Glover, Christopher Hogwood, Raymond Leppard, Andrew Litton, Stephen Lord, George Manahan, Nicholas McGegan, Eduardo Muller, Leonard Slatkin, Seiji Ozawa, Steward Robertson, Stephen Sloan, Craig Smith, Robert Spano, Emmanuel Villaume.
Recordings: Got a Little Rhythm (2014, Bridge), Dellaira’s The Secret Agent (World Premiere recording, 2014, Soundmirror), John Musto’s "Summer Stars" (Opera America Songbook, 2013, Opera America Label), Songs of John Musto (Bridge), Useful Knowledge: Music of Paul Moravec (Naxos), Gershwin's Blue Monday (ANGEL/EMI), Richard Wilson: Persuasions (Albany), Fond Affection: Songs of Ernst Bacon (CRI), Souvenir de Printemps (Harbinger), Trouble in Tahiti (Japanese Television/Bravo), Live from Lincoln Center: What Makes a Song? To be released: Cole Porter’s Ambassador Revue/La Revue des Ambassadeurs (Harbinger).
Teaching: Voice faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 2002, Manhattan School of Music - French Vocal Literature, since 2014, CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program since 2011, Songfest at Colburn Conservatory since 2008, Private studio since 1997. Master classes and residencies at CCM, Vassar, UNC Greeley, Colorado College, UMKC, among others. Member NATS, NYSUT, New York Festival of Song Artists Council, Advisory Board Glimmerglass Opera.
RUTH FALCON
Email:
falconr@newschool.edu
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Study grants: Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, William Matthews Sullivan Foundation, National Opera Institute, 1975 and 1976. Competition achievements: Metropolitan Opera auditions, 1973; competition for Verdi voices, Busseto, Italy, 1973, and Vercelli, Italy, 1973; first prize, Rio de Janeiro, 1975, Geneva Competition, 1975. New York City Opera debut as Micoela in Carmen, 1974. Began an international career as a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, 1976-80; Metropolitan Opera debut as the Kaiserin in Strauss' Die frau ohne schatten, 1989. Repertoire includes roles such as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, title role in Turandot, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, Leonora in Il Trovatore, title role in Norma, Chrysothemis in Elektra, Leonora in La forza del destino, Elsa in Lohengrin, Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, and Leonora in Fidelio. Appearances with the Opera de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, La Scala, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Opéra de Marseille, New Orleans Opera, Opera de Monte Carlo, and many others. Concertized extensively with conductors including James Levine, Nello Santi, Gerd Allrecht, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marek Janowski, Andrew Davis, Seiji Ozawa, and Christoph von Dohnanyi. Member of Voice faculty at Mannes The New School for Music since 1991.
BONNIE HAMILTON
Email:
hamiltob@newschool.edu
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Artist-member, American Opera Center and Metropolitan Opera Studio. Leading roles with regional companies throughout the United States and Canada, including Metropolitan Opera, and numerous oratorio performances with leading orchestras. Voice faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1989.
ARTHUR LEVY
Email:
levya@newschool.edu
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Tenor soloist in both opera and oratorio in the United States. Has taught voice privately in New York and Stuttgart, Germany. Voice faculty, Manhattan School of Music, Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program, State University of New York at Purchase, and Mannes College The New School for Music.
DAN MAREK
Email:
MarekD@newschool.edu
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Principal tenor with leading opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and Salzburg Opera. Numerous recitals and appearances in oratorios and as soloist with leading orchestras. Director of Vocal Education for Opera På Skäret in Sweden and Faculty, American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Former head of voice department, Syracuse University. Voice faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music since 1974. Chair, Mannes Voice Department, 1998-2001. Artistic director, Mozart Opera Project, founded in 1979. Author of articles for Music Journal, Nats Journal, and Classical Singer Magazine. In January 2007, Mr. Marek published a comprehensive book on vocal history and singing technique, Singing: The First Art. In 2013, Mr. Marek published Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors: History and Technique. Both were published by Scarecrow Press. Alto: Voice of Bel Canto: History and Technique will be published by Rowan & Littlefield in June, 2015. Mr. Marek’s students have appeared in leading roles at La Scala, the Metropolitan, Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, Paris Opera Bastille, Stockholm, and Teatro Colón Operas.
STEPHEN POWELL
Email:
powellst@newschool.edu
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Baritone Stephen Powell has been singing professionally for 25 years. At the start of his career, he won numerous national and international awards and competitions, including the Licia Albanese-Puccini, Altamura Caruso, Belvedere, Liederkranz and Washington International Vocal Competitions, as well as awards from the Sullivan and George London foundations.
He has performed and continues to sing with major opera companies nationally and internationally, including the Metropolitan, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal, Seattle, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Michigan and San Diego Opera companies, to name a few. He enjoys an active orchestral and concert schedule, with symphonies from Singapore, Amsterdam, Rome, Warsaw, Boston, Montreal, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Washington DC, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Colorado and Phoenix, among others.
He gives Master Classes at Universities and Colleges around the country, and maintains a private voice studio in his home.
BETH ROBERTS-SEBEK
Professor of Professional Practice
Email:
robertsb@newschool.edu
Office Location:
Mannes College
Profile:
For over 20 years Beth Roberts has been a dedicated and accomplished voice teacher and music educator. She has been on the faculty of Mannes College The New School for Music since 1996 and has served as Coordinator of the Vocal Department since 2001. Her voice studio at Mannes has produced principal artists in many national and international professional venues, including the San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Saint Louis Opera, Covent Garden and La Scala. Students of Ms. Roberts have been finalists and winners of such major vocal competitions as the Metropolitan Opera National Finals, the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, the Giuseppe di Stefano Competition, the Jenny Lind Competition, the Gerda Lissner Competition, the Giulio Gari Competition and the Joy of Singing Competition. Others have entered young artist programs at Merola, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Santa Fe, Tanglewood and Chautauqua.
Through her affiliation with the Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department, Ms. Roberts co- created a vocal pedagogy course and Professional Development Outreach for Mannes students in New York City public schools. The success of this venture has been most evident over the past 10 years in the graduates now employed by the Metropolitan Opera Education Department, as teaching artists for the New York City Opera, and as music teachers at the United Nations International School and other New York City schools. Ms. Roberts’ relationship with the Metropolitan Opera Education Department began in 1988, when she was a teaching artist and led master classes on vocal pedagogy for music educators. She has recently been appointed to serve on the Education Committee of the Board of the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
Ms. Roberts has been a vocal instructor for the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca (with the University of Cincinnati), a guest lecturer at the Classical Singer Convention, and an adjunct faculty member at the Westminster Choir College. She has served as an adjudicator for numerous competitions, including the Fulbright Scholarship and the Finals of the Concours de Musique du Canada. She is currently a faculty member of the International Vocal Arts Institute, and she gives frequent master classes at Yale University.
A lyric soprano, Ms. Roberts has sung with many opera companies throughout the United States, including the Santa Fe Opera and the Washington Opera, and performed numerous concerts at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall. She was a Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Winner and a Liederkranz Foundation Competition Winner. She has also recorded for radio and television.
Ms. Roberts earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Screen Actors Guild.
DIANA SOVIERO
Email:
sovierod@newschool.edu
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Diana Soviero is one of the most recognized American opera singers of the twentieth century. More than merely a vocalist, Ms. Soviero was a singing actress who lived her roles intensely on the stage. As her lyric soprano voice blossomed into a spinto with vivid colors, Ms. Soviero became a compelling interpreter of the verismo repertoire. She created a gallery of unforgettable operatic portraits in performances at leading international opera houses including The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Opéra de Paris Bastille, Hamburg Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and San Francisco Opera.
Recently, Ms. Soviero has dedicated herself to teaching singers with the same passion that characterized her singing and acting career. She has taught many of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists, giving both private lessons in her Manhattan Studio and Master Classes across the country. She frequently conducts Master Classes with prestigious companies and festivals such as Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opéra Montréal, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Palm Beach Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Tampa; institutes and conservatories such as Academy of Vocal Arts, the Mannes School of Music, El Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, The VOICExperience with Sherrill Milnes, The Israeli Institute, and universities throughout the United States, including the University of Hawaii (in conjunction with Hawaii Opera Theater), the University of Wisconsin, Université de Montréal, Lawrence University, and University of Missouri-Kansas City.
In June of 2011, she was awarded the V.E.R.A. (Voice Education Research Award) Award from The Voice Foundation, hailed as a Master Teacher and is now an official member of the board of directors. In September, 2012 she received A Lifetime Achievement Award from The Giulio Gari Foundation, and was also named an official Voice Instructor for the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera. In May 2014, Diana was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Gerda Lissner Foundation.
