Broadway star and Conservatory Of Music alumnus Dennis Kelly ’67 was awarded the university’s 2010 Alumni Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award. He returns to Orange County this month in the touring production of Anything Goes at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.As the tipsy and near-sighted Wall Street banker Elisha Whitney, Kelly says he
Alumnus Ben Bliss ’09 won the Don Plácido Domingo, Sr., Zarzuela Prize at Operalia! Plácido Domingo’s Operalia, The World Opera Competition, was founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo to discover and help launch the careers of the most promising young opera singers of today. His goal is to attract singers of all voice tessituras and
Bella Staav (’13) has been hired to act as the 2013 Summer Coordinator for Orange County’s Pacific Symphony. She has served in several different roles in the organization over the past several years, from Education Intern and Musical Playground Coordinator to Operations Intern most recently. Congratulations Bella!
Music alumnus Brett Sprague (’10) has been accepted into the competitive apprentice program at Chautauqua Opera for the 2013 summer season. He will perform Rector Adams in Peter Grimes . The Chautauqua Opera Young Artist program was formally established in 1966, followed by the creation of a Studio Artist program in 1981. In
Music alumna Erin Gonzalez (’08) has been chosen for a mezzo studio artist position in the Florentine Opera Studio in Milwaukee for the 2013 – 2014 season. She will also be an Advanced Artist in the OperaWorks training program in Los Angeles this summer.
Efrain Solis (’11) was chosen to sing in the Finals for the National Council Auditions at the Metropolitan Opera. Twenty singers performed in the semifinals on March 3, and Efrain was among the ten singers chosen to sing in the Finals on the Met stage with orchestra on March 10. Efrain sang two selections in
College of Performing Arts alumnus Michael Hudson (’00) was featured in the Los Angeles Times about his work as the co-founder of the Boyle Heights Youth Orchestra. The orchestra serves over 60 students and is moving toward non-profit status. Michael told the Times, “It’s not just a music program, it’s a social change program…you create
The Chapman University Conservatory of Music has been named in honor of William Hall, DMA, our longtime choral director and dean who is celebrating his 50th year at Chapman, and Newport Beach couple Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco, whose transformational support of the performing arts at Chapman has included their leadership of the fundraising drive for the
If January seems a little quiet around Oliphant Hall, that’s because the Chapman University Singers have hit the road for their annual interterm tour to Northern California and Nevada high schools and music academies. But the good news is that that they’ll all be back for their traditional Post Tour Concert on Friday,