Edith Bers Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7621
Education:
M.A. Brandeis University; B.S., Columbia University.
Studied Voice With:
Tourel, Callas, Popper, Berl, Guth, Faull, Cuenod, Brown, Hotter, Stader; acting with Stella Adler.
Opera, recitals, concerts, college concert tours.
Credits:
U.S. premiere of Schumann’s Des Sangers Fluch
Television production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw
Auditor for New York State Council on the Arts.
Master Classes:
Symposium on the Care of the Professional Voice, Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Korean Broadcasting System. Summer Programs: Istituto Bel Canto, Aspen Music School.
Adjudication:
Concert Artists Guild, Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition (Belgium).
Quoted:
Opera News, Wall Street Journal, Lettre du Musicien.
Faculty:
The Juilliard School faculty since 1985; chair, voice department, 1991-95, 2006.
New York University since 1999.
Bard College Dawn Upshaw Graduate program in voice, 2006.
Manhattan School of Music faculty since 1983.
Ms. Joan Caplan
Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7637
E-mail joan@joancaplan.com
Following an active career in opera and concert, Joan Caplan has become a highly respected voice teacher in New York City. Prior to that she was appointed to professorships at the Boston and Oberlin Conservatories. Miss Caplan was Artist in Residence at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at Pennsylvania State University. Summer program affiliates have been the Israel Vocal Arts Institute and Centro Studi Italiani. She also has participated in a summer vocal studies program with students from Korea.
She has published several articles, including one for the Tulsa Opera Playbill explaining to a general audience the joys and perils of the bel canto singer, which was called "From the Other Side of the Curtain." Another article, published by Classical Singer Magazine, was called "The Art in Yourself." She has given and participated in lectures for the Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department, and teaches a course on the history of vocal recordings from 1905-1975.
For 10 years Ms. Caplan served on the board of the Amadeus Foundation.
Performances included: American premiers of Hans Werner Henze's Die Bassarids (Santa Fe Opera) and Johann Hasse's L'Olimpiade (Clarion Concerts), as well as appearances with Chautauqua Opera, Dallas Opera, Lake George Opera, NBC Opera, New York City Opera, Miami Opera, Kansas City Opera, Santa Fe Opera and the Washington Opera Society.
The mezzo soprano's other performances included appearances at Tanglewood, and with Bach Festivals at Carnegie Hall, Lindsborg Kansas, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She also appeared at the Caramoor Festival, Mostly Mozart and a Stravinsky celebration in Saratoga. She has sung under the baton of composers Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze and Aaron Copland.
Manhattan School of Music College faculty since 1993.
Ms. Mignon Dunn Mezzo-soprano
Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7670
E-mail mignondunn@aol.com
Mignon Dunn has sung the leading mezzo-soprano roles in the most important opera houses of the world. In Europe, she has sung at La Scala, Milan; the Vienna Staatsoper; London’s Royal Opera, Covent Garden; the Paris Opéra; Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre; Teatr Wielki, Warsaw; the Hamburg Staatsoper; the Deutsche Oper Berlin; and the opera companies of Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. In South and Central America, she has performed at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Opera Nacional in Chile, Mexico City’s Bellas Artes, and the Opera of Puerto Rico. In Canada she has performed with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Opéra de Montréal. In the United States she sang at the Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the Opera Company of Boston, the Opera Theater of Detroit, and the New Orleans and Miami operas. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York she sang over six hundred and fifty performances over a span of 35 years.
Mignon Dunn is known especially for her portrayals of the dramatic Italian roles such as Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore, Eboli in Don Carlo, both Laura and La Cieca in La gioconda, the Princess in Adriana Lecouvreur, and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana. Her French repertoire includes Dalila in Samson et Dalila and Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann, as well as Dulcinée in Don Quichotte and Carmen, which she has sung over 400 times in four different languages.
Her German repertoire has embraced the leading mezzo roles in different productions of Wagner’s Ring, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Kundry in Parsifal, and Venus in Tannhäuser. She has also given many performances of Strauss’s operas: Klytämnestra in Elektra, Herodias in Salome, and the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She has sung Kostelnicka in Jenufa, Jezibaba in Rusalka, and Kabanicha in Katya Kabanova in Czech as well as Marina in Boris Godunov in Russian. Her Spanish repertoire includes Goyescas and La vida breve.
Ms. Dunn has performed recitals all over Europe and the United States and has sung with many major symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, Hamburg, and Vienna. Her varied repertoire has especially featured the works of Mahler, Ravel, and Verdi. Ms. Dunn has recorded for EMI, Erato, and Deutsche Grammophon. She has conducted master classes extensively in the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy, Israel, China, and Japan.
She is widely known as a professor of voice and has taught on the faculties of the University Texas at Austin, the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Brooklyn College, and for many years at Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Dunn was married to the late conductor Kurt Klippstatter and lives in New York City.
Ms. Hilda Harris
Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7692
E-mail hharris@msmnyc.edu
Mezzo-soprano Hilda Harris, formerly a leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera, has performed throughout the United States and Europe. A native of Warrenton, North Carolina, she is known for her portrayals of the “trouser” roles in the mezzo repertoire. She has established herself as a singing actress and has earned critical acclaim in opera, on the concert stage, and in recital. At the Metropolitan Opera, she made her debut as the Student in Lulu and also sang Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), the Child (L’Enfant et les sortilèges), Siebel (Faust), Stephano (Roméo et Juliette), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), and Sesto (Giulio Cesare). During her extensive career, she has sung such roles as Carmen in St. Gallen, Switzerland; Brussels; and Budapest. In Holland and Belgium she sang the roles of Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and Rosina (Barber of Seville), and the title role in La Cenerentola.
She has also sung leading roles with the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Seattle Opera, Spoleto USA, and the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy. She has appeared extensively in symphonic and oratorio repertoire with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Quebec Symphony, Helsinki Orchestra, Sweden’s Malmö, Symphony and the radio orchestras of Hilversum in the Netherlands.
Ms. Harris is a member of the Chicago-based Black Music Research Ensemble, whose purpose it is to discover, preserve, promote and perform music of black composers.
Her accomplishments have been documented in And So I Sing, by Rosalyn M. Story; Black Women in America, an Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Darlene Clark Hines; The Music of Black Americans by Eileen Southern; and African-American Singers by Patricia Turner.
Ms. Harris’s discography includes Hilda Harris (a solo album); The Valley Wind (songs of Hale Smith); Art Songs by Black American Composers (album); X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (CD); From the South Land, songs and Spirituals by Harry T. Burleigh (CD); and Witness, Volume II, compositions by William Grant Still (CD).
Ms. Harris taught voice at Howard University from 1991 through 1994 and is presently a member of the voice faculties of Sarah Lawrence College and Manhattan School of Music. She maintains a private studio in New York City and is on the voice faculty at the Chautauqua Institution during the summer months.
Manhattan School of Music College faculty since 1991.
Ms. Cynthia Hoffmann
Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7698
E-mail choffmanndr@aol.com
Cynthia Hoffmann is a member of the voice faculties of Manhattan School of Music, where she also teaches a class in vocal performance, and The Juilliard School, where she has served as chairperson since l995. She directed the Judith Raskin Opera Class at the 92nd Street Y School of Music from 1984–92 and has been a summer voice faculty member
of the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria; the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy; the Yong Pyong Music Festival in Korea; the Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine; the Centro Studi Italiani program in Urbania, Italy; the Aria International program; and the University of Miami School of Music program in Salzburg, Austria.
Ms. Hoffmann has presented master classes at colleges and universities across the United States, including several for various regions of the National Association of the Teachers of Singing; the AIMS program; the University of Miami (Ohio and Florida); the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and recently for the University of Southern California, Chapman College, and the University of Redlands. She has been a frequent master teacher for the Voice Foundation's symposia on the care of the professional voice. She has also been a recitalist and master teacher at Kang Nung University in Kang Nung, Korea. Ms. Hoffmann maintains a professional voice studio in New York City. Her students have appeared with the Metropolitan and New York City operas, as well as with other major opera companies in the U.S. and abroad, including those in Berlin, Chicago, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Houston, and Los Angeles; as well as Paris, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Seattle, Zurich and Wolf Trap. Her students have been winners of Metropolitan Opera National Council awards; Richard Tucker Foundation study grants; Sullivan, George London and Puccini Foundation grants; the Joy in Singing award recital; the Marilyn Horne Foundation recital awards “On Wings of Song”; the Belvedere Competition; and the Placido Domingo Operalia competition.
Ms. Hoffmann received her academic degrees from the University of Redlands and Columbia University, with professional study at the University of Southern California. Her coaches have included Hugues Cuenod, Judith Raskin, Gerard Souzay, Ralf Gothoni, Robert Evans, and Martin Katz. She has studied voice with Margaret Schaper, Vera Rozsa, Margaret Harshaw, Beverley Peck Johnson, Daniel Ferro, Oren Brown, and Larra Browning. She has also participated in the professional acting classes of Sanford Meisner, the former director of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and Wynn Handman, director of the American Place Theater. Ms.Hoffmann has studied the Alexander Technique for more than 15 years and considers it an important part of her work. She has studied and completed one year of teacher training under Ann Rodiger and has also worked with Troup Matthews, Misha Magidov, Marjorie Barstow, Richard Levine, Judah Catalan, and Laurie Schiff.
Ms. Hoffmann has been heard in recital and opera on both the East and West coasts.She has also appeared in several Off-Broadway plays. She has recorded for the Vanguard Label and has been heard on radio and television in Boston and New York, as well as on NBC Television in Los Angeles. Ms. Hoffmann lives in New York City and Carversville, Pennsylvania, with her husband, John Ditsler, a lawyer and avid music lover.
Ms. Hoffmann received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Redlands in 2002.
Manhattan School of Music faculty since l976.
The Juilliard School faculty since l991.
Ms. Marlena Malas
Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7740
Education:
BM, Curtis Institute of Music; The Juilliard School.
Soloist:
Boston Opera; Miami Opera; New York City Opera; Santa Fe Opera; New York Philharmonic; the Philadelphia Orchestra; Casals Festival; Marlboro Festival.
Recordings:
CBS Masterworks; Columbia; Marlboro Music Festival; Vanguard.
Master Classes:
Blossom Music Festival; Santa Fe Opera; San Francisco Opera Center; St. Louis Opera; Brussels; Israel; Sydney, Australia; Taiwan; Nebraska; Cincinnati, Denver, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Washington, D.C., in connection with Metropolitan Opera Auditions.
Vocal Consultant:
Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, Chicago Lyric Opera. Is now associated with the National Theater of Toyko and the Fletcher Institute in North Carolina and joins the Washington Opera with Plácido Domingo in the training of young artists.
Faculty:
Canadian Opera Center; Chautauqua Institution; the Curtis Institute of Music.
Manhattan School of Music faculty since 1982.
Mr. Spiro Malas
Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7741
Education:
BS, Towson State University.
Performances:
Leading bass-baritone, Metropolitan Opera; Boston Opera; Dallas Opera; Houston Grand Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Miami Opera; New York City Opera; San Francisco Opera; Seattle Opera.
Festival Appearances:
Florence; Rome; Salzburg; Vienna.
Musical Theater:
The Most Happy Fella (Broadway revival).
Premieres:
Balcony/Di Domenica, Boston Opera; Don Rodrigo/Ginastera, New York City Opera.
Competitions/Awards:
Winner, American Opera Auditions; winner, Metropolitan Opera Auditions; Mayor’s Award, Spiro Malas Day, Baltimore.
Faculty:
Chautauqua Institution; the Curtis Institute of Music.
Manhattan School of Music faculty since 1988.
Miss Catherine Malfitano
Telephone (917) 304-8079
E-mail Divamomcat@aol.com
EDUCATION
Diploma, High School of Music & Art — 1966
Bachelor of Music, Manhattan School of Music — 1971
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Private Voice Studio — 1998 to present, DePaul University School of Music — 1998 to 2003, Manhattan School of Music — 2008 to present
MASTERCLASSES
DePaul University School of Music, Lyric Opera of Chicago, DePauw University, Indiana University, Los Angeles Opera, English National Opera
Royal Opera House, Glimmerglass Festival, NATS, UCLA, USC, George London Foundation, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera
Central City Opera, San Francisco Opera Merola Program, New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music
AWARDS
Emmy Award — Performance as Tosca/Rome Film 1992, Phi Beta Kappa — Chicago Chapter, Honorary Doctorate — DePaul University
Center for Contemporary Opera, Lyric Opera 25th Anniversary, Houston Grand Opera 30th Anniversary, George London Competition, National Opera Institute
SINGING CAREER (1972 – present)
Soprano Catherine Malfitano has sung repeatedly at all the major opera houses of the world, including Salzburg Festival, Vienna Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper Berlin, Hamburg Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Paris Opera, La Monnaie, Houston Grand Opera,
Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Metropolitan Opera.
For further details on her repertoire of over 70 leading roles, and her complete opera, concert and recital career, please refer to her management's web site (IMGArtists.com).
WORLD PREMIERES
Transformations (1973) — Conrad Susa, The Seagull (1974) — Thomas Pasatieri, Washington Square (1976) — Thomas Pasatieri, Permit Me Voyage (1976) — Thomas Pasatieri
Bilby's Doll — Carlyle Floyd (1976), McTeague (1992) — William Bolcom, A View from the Bridge (1999) — William Bolcom,Medusa (2003) — William Bolcom
A Wedding (2004) — William Bolcom
TELEVISION PERFORMANCES
CBS Camera Three/Pasatieri Works (1977), The Saint of Bleecker Street/New York City Opera (1978), Street Scene/New York City Opera (1979), Les Contes d'Hoffmann/Florence (1980), La Clemenza di Tito/PBS (1981), Suor Angelica/Florence (1983), Gala of Stars/PBS (1983), Metropolitan Opera Centennial (1983), George London Gala/Vienna (1984)
Salome/Berlin (1990), Antony & Cleopatra/Lyric Opera of Chicago (1991), Tosca/Rome (1992), The Real McTeague/PBS (1992), Stiffelio/London (1993)
Madama Butterfly/Metropolitan Opera (1994), James Levine 25th Anniversary Gala/Metropolitan Opera (1996), Tosca/Amsterdam (1998), Mahagonny/Salzburg Festival (1998)
DIRECTING CAREER (2005 – present)
Madama Butterfly/Central City Opera (2005), La Voix Humaine/La Monnaie (2006), The Saint of Bleecker Street/Central City Opera (2007)
Tosca/Florida Grand Opera (2008), Rigoletto/Washington National Opera (2008), Don Giovanni/San Francisco Opera/Merola (2008)
Manhattan School of Music faculty since 2008.
The Juilliard School faculty since l991.
Ms. Patricia Misslin
Telephone (212) 749-2802 x7877
Education:
MM, BM, Boston University
Voice Studies:
Anna Hamlin, Ludwig Bergman, Polyna Stoska
Vocal Coaching Studies:
Fausto Cleva, Kathleen Scott, Donald Nold, Felix Wolfes, and R. Foster
Performances:
Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Town Hall, Symphony Hall(Boston), Gardner Museum, New York Chamber Music Artists, Canticum Novum Singers, Boston Opera
Cofounder/Board Member:
Music Theater North, Institute of American Studies
Faculty:
Potsdam College, State University of New York
Former Faculty:
Curtis Institute, St. Lawrence University, SUNY Purchase
Manhattan School of Music faculty since 1995.
Mr. Mark Oswald
Mark Oswald is regarded by the Metropolitan Opera as one of its leading voice teachers, with fourteen Met soloists under his tutelage, and has gained the consistent trust and mutual respect of the musical and vocal community at large.
Known for his technical prowess and musicality as a leading lyric baritone for 12 years at the Metropolitan Opera, he has sung frequently under James Levine and today's leading conductors. Mr. Oswald has worked in many of the leading opera houses of the world, including the Vienna State Opera, Hamburg, San Francisco, St. Louis, San Diego, Miami, and the Dallas Opera, to name a few. He has sung alongside nearly every leading singer of the world today in these acclaimed theaters.
He gained a wide variety of experience at an early age as one of the youngest male singers in history to debut at the Metropolitan in a leading role, with nearly 500 performances, including extensive concert experience and an impressive discography. Among his recordings are Carmina Burana with the Montreal Symphony, the title role of Billy Budd on a live recording from Venice, and An American Requiem by Richard Danielpour. He also took part in a recent Virgil Thomson disc, and Holiday at Pops with Frederica von Stade and the Boston Pops, televised on PBS. Mr. Oswald is widely known for his Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, his Silvio in I pagliacci, and his Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. He sang with Alfredo Kraus in the late tenor's final L'elisir d'amore at the Metropolitan. He sang his first performance of the same opera with Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, and Maestro Levine and was showcased as a singer on the James Levine Gala in the late ’90s.
Mr. Oswald's vocal approach descends from a long line of voice teachers such as Sidney Dietsch (who taught Leonard Warren), dating back to the earlier part of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, he has his own positive and detailed approach, working with each singer in a style unique to the individual. Mr. Oswald is in demand as an adjudicator of competitions for the Metropolitan Opera and as a teacher of master classes on vocal technique. He has also been a frequent program participant at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory, San Diego State, Brevard Music Center, and the University of South Carolina. Voice faculty, Hartt School of Music, Manhattan School of Music (MSM)faculty since 2003.
Joan Patenaude-Yarnell
Following her debut with the Canadian Opera Company as Micaela in Carmen, this Canadian-born soprano joined both the New York City and San Francisco Operas. She has also sung with opera companies throughout North America and Europe. Her roles have included Violetta in La Traviata, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Gilda in Rigoletto, Nedda in I Pagliacci, the title role in Suor Angelica, Mimì in La Bohème, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, Elle in La Voix Humaine, and Héro in Béatrice et Bénédict.
As a recitalist she performed internationally under the auspices of the Canadian Government, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Les Jeunesses musicales, and the United States Department of State. With orchestra she sang under the batons of Sir Charles Mackerras, Charles Dutoit, Seiji Ozawa, Julius Rudel, and James De Preist. Her recordings include Songs of the Great Opera Composers with Mikael Eliasen, pianist, on the Musical Heritage Society label, as well as releases on the C.B.C. International Series and Vanguard labels.
Miss Patenaude-Yarnell serves on the Voice faculties of Manhattan School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music.
Her students perform with the Me
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