[MusicEvents] Guest Artist Vocal Recital Nov. 9th

[Nancy Melton]

The Department of Music will host Soprano Elizabeth Baldwin in recital as part of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Conference November 9th in the Music Building Finney Concert Hall at 7:30 pm. We would like to offer you two complimentary tickets to this recital. Ms. Baldwin’s accomplishments are below. We are pleased to be able to bring her to campus for this recital. If you are interested in complimentary tickets, please email Randall.Hooper at tamuc.edu<mailto:Randall.Hooper at tamuc.edu>. Thank you, Randy Hooper


[image1.JPG]Soprano Elizabeth Baldwin has been praised as being "ferociously talented" by the San Francisco Examiner and "mesmerizingly vulnerable" by the New York Times. Upcoming engagements include her role debut as Puccini's Suor Angelica with Opera Project Columbus, a debut recital with the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Texoma convention, and Lady Macbeth in MACBETH with Empire Opera in NYC.

Recent engagements include: Sieglinde in Die Walküre with the Miami Music Festival's Wagner Institute, Verdi's Macbeth in the role of Lady Macbeth with both the Opera Company of Middlebury and NYC's Loft Opera as well as her debut with Dallas Opera in their concert entitled Verdi & Co, featuring scenes from Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aïda. Other recent highlights include her return to Chautauqua Opera as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, the title role of Puccini’s Tosca with Opera San Jose, Kentucky Opera and the Boston Youth Symphony, the title role in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Amelia in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera with the Boston Youth Symphony, and she joined the roster of the San Francisco Symphony to cover the role of Ellen Orford in Britten’s Peter Grimes, a role which she had sung previously at Chautauqua Opera. Other notable performances include Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Opera San Jose, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen at Arbor Opera, Clotilde in Bellini’s Norma with Portland SummerFest’s Opera in the Park series, and Viclinda in Verdi’s I Lombardi with The Opera Orchestra of New York at Avery Fisher Hall.

As a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, she covered the role of Arminda in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, performed excerpts from Boito’s Mefistofele and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the Schwabacher Summer Concert and performed excerps from Verdi’s Il Corsaro and Puccini’s La Rondine on the Merola Grand Finale Concert.

On the concert stage, Ms. Baldwin has performed Verdi's Requiem with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Akron Symphony,  Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, John William’s Seven For Luck, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with The Boston University Symphony, Fauré’s Requiem with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and a gala concert with Toledo Opera. As an active recitalist, Ms. Baldwin has been presented in recitals both at the Ravinia Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Festival.

Ms. Baldwin was a National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; Grand Prize winner in the Sullivan Foundation Competition and the Nicholas Loren Vocal Competition; First Prize winner in the National Orpheus Vocal Competition, The National Opera Association Competition, The Heida Hermanns International Voice Competition and the Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition.  She has also been awarded numerous grants from operatic organizations including the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, the Giulio Gari Foundation and the Schulyer Foundation for Career Bridges.





Randall Hooper, DMA | Associate Professor Director of Choirs and Vocal Activities
Department of Music | Texas A&M University-Commerce
College of Humanities, Social Sciences & Arts
Randall.Hooper at tamuc.edu<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Randall.Hooper at tamuc.edu');>
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