CCM presents three concert streams featuring piano students performing in Robert J. Werner Recital Hall and in other performance spaces throughout the world!

Presented in conjunction with theCCMONSTAGEOnlineserial of concert streams, theCOVID Etude Project showcases iii complete sets of etudes by composers Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy and William Bolcom, performed by CCM students and streamed online nightly from Friday, March 26 through Sunday, March 28. Each concert will stream simultaneously on CCM's website, YouTube channel and Facebook page.

"TheCOVID Etude Projectis a joint-studio project of mine and ProfessorRan Dank," says CCM Associate Professor of PianoSoyeon Kate Lee. "It was conceived to keep our students motivated and create a sense of purpose and community during this unprecedented fourth dimension."

"Many of our students are overseas, some whom nosotros accept never met in-person, and nosotros have tried to make the most of our time on Zoom together and build a studio customs despite the circumstances."

As explained past arts writer Janelle Gelfand in her preview of CCM'southwardCOVID Etude Project for theCincinnati Business Courier: "Etudes are difficult studies for mastering a technical challenge, such as runs, leaps, octaves or arpeggios. They are also engaging musical works. Composers such equally Chopin, Debussy, Liszt and Rachmaninoff wrote etudes meant for the concert hall."

The first concert stream at 7:30 p.thousand. EDT on March 26 features Liszt'due southTranscendental Études, a 12-part piece published in 1852. The episode is roughly ane hr long.

The 2nd stream at seven:xxx p.chiliad. EDT on March 27 showcases Debussy'southwardTwelve Études, composed in 1915 and regarded as ane of the more than challenging works in the piano repertoire. The episode is approximately l minutes long.

The terminal stream at seven:thirty p.yard. EDT on March 28 shares Bolcom'southwardTwelve New Etudes written between 1977 and 1986. The episode is 45 minutes long.

After each premiere circulate, all iii installments of theCOVIDEtudeProject will remain available for on-need viewing on CCM's website, YouTube channel and Facebook folio.

Students recorded one etude each wherever they were — some students performed in CCM'south Robert J. Werner Recital Hall, while others gave their performances at domicile or in pianoforte showrooms near their residences.

"Seeing our students accept up this challenge with and so much free energy, professionalism and positive spirit is so gratifying to run across, and definitely has been i of the highlights for me at CCM," said Lee.

CCM'due southCOVID Etude Project is produced by Joel Crawford Recording and is made possible by generous support from Louis and Susan Meisel.

Acquire more about CCM's upcoming video releases courtesy of Janelle Gelfand and the Cincinnati Business Courier.

Streaming Premiere

  • Liszt'due south Transcendental Études: seven:30 p.m. EDT Friday, March 26, 2021
  • Debussy'due south Twelve Études: seven:thirty p.m. EDT Saturday, March 27, 2021
  • Bolcom's Twelve New Etudes: 7:30 p.m. EDT Sunday, March 28, 2021

Functioning Details

Liszt's Transcendental Études Performers and Repertoire

  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 1, "Preludio"
    • Performed byRobert Brooks Carlson, Master of Music student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 2, "Fusées"
    • Performed byRobert Brooks Carlson, Master of Music student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 3, "Paysage"
    • Performed bySooyeon Baik, Doctor of Musical Arts pupil
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 4, "Mazeppa"
    • Performed byLywon Yeo, Creative person Diploma student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 5, "Feux Follets"
    • Performed byWen Pan, Doc of Musical Arts student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 6, "Vision"
    • Performed byJiwon Son, Creative person Diploma student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 7, "Eroica"
    • Performed byMu-tien Lai, Master of Music student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 8, "Wilde Jagd"
    • Performed byTianmi Wu, Master of Music pupil
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 9, "Ricordanza"
    • Performed byZhaoyi Long, Doctor of Musical Arts student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. ten in F Minor
    • Performed byGwangwon Park, Medico of Musical Arts student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. xi, "Harmonies du soir"
    • Performed by Jeremy Ho, Doctor of Musical Arts student
  • Liszt: Transcendental Études, No. 12, "Chasse-neige"
    • Performed byNicholas Ho, Doctor of Musical Arts student

Debussy's Twelve Études Performers and Repertoire

  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 1, "Pour les cinq doigts" (d'après Monsieur Czerny)
    • Performed byYe Qian, Available of Music student
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. two, "Cascade les tierces"
    • Performed pastShaoming Yang, Master of Music student
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 3, "Pour les quartes"
    • Performed byChisato Fuji, Bachelor of Music pupil
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. four, "Cascade les sixtes"
    • Performed byYiyue Su, Bachelor of Music student
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 5, "Pour les octaves"
    • Performed byAnjun Zheng, Main of Music pupil
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 6, "Pour les huit doigts"
    • Performed byAngela Pui-Yee Lau, Master of Music pupil
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 7, "Pour les degrés chromatiques"
    • Performed byDongqin Yu, Available of Music educatee
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 8, "Pour les agréments"
    • Performed pastYuyao Qu, Bachelor of Music student
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. ix, "Pour les notes répétées"
    • Performed byHelena Kim, Doctor of Musical Arts pupil
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. x, "Pour les sonorités opposées"
    • Performed pastHyrum Arnesen, Physician of Musical Arts student
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 11, "Cascade les arpèges composés"
    • Performed byGavin Davis, Available of Music student
  • Debussy: Twelve Études, No. 12, "Pour les accords"
    • Performed byJiao Sun, Artist Diploma pupil

Bolcom's Twelve New Etudes Performers and Repertoire

  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book I, No. 1, "Fast, furious"
    • Performed pastStuart Zhang, Master of Music educatee
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book I, No. 2, "Récitatif"
    • Performed byStuart Zhang, Chief of Music educatee
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book I, No. 3, "Mirrors"
    • Performed bySeran Lee, Doc of Musical Arts student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book II, No. 4, "Scène d'opéra"
    • Performed pastCatharine Baek, Bachelor of Music student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Volume Ii, No. 5, "Butterflies, hummingbirds"
    • Performed pastMing-Li Liu, Master of Music student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book II, No. vi, "Nocturne"
    • Performed byJoseph Vaz, Master of Music pupil
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book 3, No. vii, "Premonitions"
    • Performed byPyeongAn Kim, Doctor of Musical Arts student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Volume III, No. eight, "Rag infernal (Syncopes apocalyptiques)"
    • Performed byYaoyue Huang, Physician of Musical Arts student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book III, No. 9, "Invention"
    • Performed pastYu-Chia Kuo, Master of Music student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book IV, No. ten, "Vers le silence"
    • Performed pastAriadne Antipa, Doc of Musical Arts student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book IV, No. eleven, "Hello-jinks"
    • Performed pastVikki Chen, Medico of Musical Arts student
  • Bolcom: Twelve New Études – Book 4, No. 12, "Hymne á 50'amour"
    • Performed byScott Sherman, Doc of Musical Arts educatee

Artistic Team

CCM COVID Etude Project Directors
Ran Dank, Banana Professor of Piano
Soyeon Kate Lee, Associate Professor of Piano

COVID Etude Project Produced Past
Joel Crawford Recording
http://www.joelcrawfordrecording.com

Keyboard Studies Sectionalisation Head
Michelle Conda

Piano Technicians
Rebekah Whitacre
Eric Wolfley

Senior Director of Performance Operations
Rayburn Dobson

CCMONSTAGEOnlineSerial Concept Adult and Managed by
Curt Whitacre

CCM Digital Content Team
Kenneth D. Allen
Clarence M. Brown
Kevin Burke
Rebecca Butts
Rayburn Dobson
Mikki Graff
Melissa Neeley-Nicolini
Jeanne Rose
Simón Sotelo
Stephanie Temeles
Curt Whitacre

A preeminent institution for the performing and media arts, the University of Cincinnati Higher-Conservatory of Music offers nearly 120 possible majors, along with a wide variety of pre-collegiate and mail-graduate programs.

The synergy created by housing CCM within a comprehensive public university gives the college its unique character and defines its objective:to educate and inspire the whole artist and scholar for positions on the world stage.

For more than data, please visit the states online at ccm.uc.edu.

We are saddened to share news of the passing of CCM Professor EmeritusEiji Hashimoto, Professor of Harpsichord and Harpsichordist-in-Residence at CCM from 1968 to 2001. Hashimoto passed away on Jan. 14, 2021, at the age of 89. He is survived past his wife, Ruth Hashimoto; his three children: Christine (Kirk) Merritt, Ken (Allison Dubinski) Hashimoto, and Erica Hashimoto; and five granddaughters: Katherine and Elizabeth Merritt, Scarlette and Sabina Hashimoto, and Naomi Hashimoto. A memorial service volition exist scheduled at a later on date.

An internationally renowned concert artist and scholar of baroque music, Hashimoto performed with critical acclaim throughout the The states and around the world. As a soloist, he dazzled audiences in more than 50 international tours and released numerous CDs. His own editions of 18th-century keyboard music remain highly regarded.

Born in Tokyo in 1931, Hashimoto began musical training every bit a child and graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a major in organ in 1955. He came to the US under a Fulbright study grant to pursue graduate studies in musicology and composition at the University of Chicago (Master of Arts in 1959) and then in harpsichord at the Yale University School of Music (Main of Music in 1962) under Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Upon returning to Japan, Hashimoto taught at the Toho Gakuen Schoolhouse of Music in Tokyo until he was invited by the French government to spend vi months in France doing research in 1967. During his subsequent Usa tour, he performed in Cincinnati, which led to an invitation to teach at CCM beginning in 1968.

Hashimoto maintained an active performance and recording schedule throughout his 33-year long tenure at CCM. During this time he performed with many CCM ensembles, spent several summers conducting for CCM's Opera Theatre of Lucca program in Italy, and likewise performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and at the May Festival.

Hashimoto also formed CCM'due south Ensemble for Eighteenth Century Music, recording with the ensemble and taking it on several tours, including to Nippon in 1988, to United mexican states in 1993, and to many cities across the U.s.a.. TheEl Porvenir newspaper in Monterrey, Mexico, declared "They came, they played and they conquered" post-obit Hashimoto'south November 1993 performance with CCM's Ensemble for Eighteenth Century Music. In 2001, Hashimoto's then-colleague (and now emeriti faculty member) Clare Callahan told theCincinnati Enquirer, "Eiji is our Baroque touchstone … and his dedicated work with the Eighteenth Century Orchestra gave students and faculty alike a sense of the fun people had with music of that time."

In 1978 and 1981, Hashimoto received the Prize of Excellence from the Japanese authorities for his recitals in Tokyo. In 1984, he received UC's coveted Rieveschl Laurels for Excellence in Scholarly and Artistic Works. He was a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council'southward solo artist grant, was besides selected for the 1988-89 Arts Midwest Performing Arts Touring Program and was awarded the "Honorable Gild of Kentucky Colonels," the highest honor awarded by the state of Kentucky for special achievements, by the governor of Kentucky in 1990. He was twice awarded research grants by the Rockefeller Foundation for scholarly residencies in Bellagio, Italy.

Please join us in sending your thoughts, prayers and condolences to Eiji'due south family and friends. Yous can learn more about Eiji's career past visiting Janelle Gelfand'southward "Janelle'southward Notes" blog. Tributes can be shared through the Neidhard-Young Funeral Home website. A memorial service will exist scheduled at a later date. Eiji influenced and inspired multiple generations of students, colleagues and music lovers during his iii decades at CCM. He will be securely missed.

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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra'south "Live from Music Hall" performance is available to stream online

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra mounted its first live performance in Music Hall since the outbreak of COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the remainder of its season. The Live from Music Hall operation, initially streamed on Saturday, May 16, isavailable to lookout online.

The performance featured the launch of the CSO'sFanfare Project, which commissions new music from more than a dozen composers to "inspire and uplift and to help us make sense of this moment in our shared history through the universal linguistic communication of music." CCM Professor and CSO Principal Oboe Dwight Parry gave the earth premiere of the Fanfare Project's first limerickvitres (fragment…) past CSO Artistic Partner Matthias Pintscher in the opening of the live-streamed concert.

CSO pianist and CCM Professor Michael Chertock with CSO principal cello and CCM Professor Ilya Finkelshteyn.

CSO pianist and CCM Professor Michael Chertock with CSO principal cello and CCM Professor Ilya Finkelshteyn.

Following the globe premiere, 4 CSO musicians took the stage to perform Mahler's Piano Quartet in A Pocket-sized — while maintaining social distances and wearing face up masks. The performance featured CCM professors Michael Chertock, pianoforte, and Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello; every bit well as CSO concertmaster Stefani Matsuo and principal viola Christian Colberg.

"The event was one footstep frontwards to the time when theaters will reopen, and we won't be afraid to share a live communal feel," wrote arts reporter Janelle Gelfand in her review for theCincinnati Business organization Courier. "Information technology was a message of promise that somewhen our arts and culture will re-sally."

Spotter the full performance online.

Images captured from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's concert video.

CCM student Elena Villalón (center) with the other winners of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. From left to right: Miles Mykkanen, William Guanbo Su, Elena Villalón, Thomas Glass and Michaela Wolz. Photography courtesy of Ken Howard.

CCM pupil Elena Villalón (eye) with the other winners of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. From left to right: Miles Mykkanen, William Guanbo Su, Elena Villalón, Thomas Glass and Michaela Wolz. Photography courtesy of Ken Howard.

Nosotros are thrilled to report that current CCM pupil Elena Villalón has been named a Yard Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera's 2019 National Council Auditions! After a months-long serial of auditions involving more than 1,000 singers at the commune, regional and national levels, a console of expert judges named Villalón and four other singers as the winners of the 65th annual Metropolitan Opera National Quango Auditions. Each winner receives a $fifteen,000 cash prize. Y'all can larn more nearly all of the 2019 National Council Winners by visiting www.metopera.org/about/auditions/national-council-auditions/winners.

Senior Voice Performance major Elena Villalón has been named a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera's 2019 National Council Auditions.

Senior Vocalization Performance major Elena Villalón has been named a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera's 2019 National Council Auditions.

A soprano from Austin, Texas, who studies with CCM Professor William McGraw, Villalón joins Houston Grand Opera's studio artist program in the 2019-twenty flavour, after being a finalist and winning the audience prize in the 31st almanac Eleanor McCollum Competition. She has been a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Centre and at Houston One thousand Opera's Young Artist Vocal Academy. Her CCM performances include the roles of Adele in Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Lucy in Menotti'due south The Phone and Miss Wordsworth in Britten's Albert Herring.

As previously reported, fellow CCM-trained singersJoshua Wheeker, tenor (CCM Voice 2007-2012); Murrella Parton (MM Vox, 2017) too avant-garde to the Met'due south National Council Semi-Finals this year.

This marks the 2d sequent year that CCM singers take "won the Met," as CCM alumna Jessica Faselt(MM Vocalism, 2016) was one of five singers who won the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Quango Auditions. You can learn more virtually Faselt's win courtesy of the Cincinnati Business organisation Courier .

CCM alumni and students frequently accelerate to the terminal rounds of the Met's National Council Auditions, which is widely considered to be the nation's near prestigious vocal contest. In 2017, four CCM alumni competed in the semi-finals, including Faselt; Summer Hassan, soprano (MM Voice, 2014); Andrew Manea, baritone (MM Voice, 2016); and Cody Quattlebaum, bass-baritone (BM Voice, 2015) — who was chosen as a finalist during that yr's national competition.

Almost the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions

Following the creation of the Met's National Quango in the 1952-53 flavor, the outset Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions took place in 1954 in the Twin Cities. For over 60 years, the almanac competition has helped launch the careers of endless immature singers, including some of opera's greatest stars. Every season, over 100 sometime participants in the National Council Auditions appear on the Met roster.

The district-level and regional auditions, held beyond the Usa, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, are sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council and administered past National Council members and hundreds of volunteers from beyond the country. Currently in its 65th year, the program has launched the careers of such well-known stars asRenée Fleming,Susan Graham,Frederica von Stade,Deborah Voigt,Lawrence Brownlee,Thomas Hampson,Eric Owens, Angela Meade,Nadine Sierra,Jamie Barton andRyan Speedo Green. The contest garnered international attention with the release of the 2008 feature-length documentaryThe Audition, directed by honor-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke, which chronicled the 2007 National Council Auditions flavor and Yard Finals Concert.

After its stunning opening performance of the 2016-17 season in September, the Ariel Quartet returns to CCM in concert at viii p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25 in Corbett Auditorium with a program featuring the works of Mozart, Shostakovich and Dvořák. Tickets are available through the CCM Box Office.

The Ariel Quartet, string quartet-in-residence at CCM.

The Ariel Quartet, cord quartet-in-residence at CCM. Photo by Saverio Truglia.

The Ariel Quartet is comprised of Alexandra Kazovsky, violin; Amit Even-Tov, cello; Gershon Gerchikov, violin; and January Grüning, viola. M Prize winners at the 2006 Fischoff National Bedroom Music Competition and 2014 recipients of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Quartet was formed in State of israel 16 years ago and at present serves as CCM'south distinguished string quartet-in-residence.

Cincinnati Enquirer writer Janelle Gelfand said nearly every seat in CCM's Corbett Auditorium was filled for the Quartet's Sept. 6 opening concert and praised the "vibrant" performance.

"I loved the mode these musicians traded phrases in Beethoven'south Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. eighteen, No. 1," she wrote on Janelle's Notes. "It was conversational, witty and vibrant. The Adagio was the flick of beautiful singing line and depth of feeling. The German word "himmlisch" (heavenly) came to mind."

Join us at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 in Corbett Auditorium every bit CCM's string quartet-in-residence presents works from powerhouse composers Mozart, Shostakovich and Dvořák.

Repertoire
MOZART: String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, Thousand. 387
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 ("American Quartet")

Performance Time
eight p.chiliad. Tuesday, Oct. 25

Location
Corbett Auditorium, CCM Village,
University of Cincinnati

Purchasing Tickets
Tickets are $25 for general admission, $15 for non-UC students and Free for UC students with valid ID.

Tickets tin be purchased in person at the CCM Box Function, over the phone at 513-556-4183 oronline now through our e-Box Office! Visitccm.uc.edu/boxoffice for CCM Box Office hours and location.

Parking and Directions
Parking is available in the CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the campus of the University of Cincinnati. Please visituc.edu/parking for more information on parking rates.

For detailed maps and directions, please visituc.edu/visitors. Additional parking is available off-campus at the U Square complex on Calhoun Street and other neighboring lots.

For directions to CCM Village, visitccm.uc.edu/about/directions.
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Story by CCM Graduate Student Charlotte Kies

We are ecstatic to written report that CCM alumnae Tamara Wilson (BM Voice, 2004) and Amanda Woodbury (MM Vox, 2012) have both received major awards from the prestigious Richard Tucker Music Foundation .

Wilson, a soprano who studied with Barbara Honn while attending CCM, has been named winner of the 2016 Richard Tucker Honour. Dubbed the "Heisman Trophy of Opera," the Tucker Accolade carries the foundation's most substantial cash prize of $50,000, and is conferred each year past a panel of opera industry professionals on an American vocaliser at the threshold of a major international career. Featuring such luminaries as Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Lawrence Brownlee, David Daniels, Christine Goerke and Joyce DiDonato, the list of past winners reads like a who's who of American opera. Wilson is a previous recipient of the Foundation's Sara Tucker Report Grant in 2008 and Richard Tucker Career Grant in 2011.

Barry Tucker, president of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation and son of the Brooklyn-born tenor, commented, "I first met Tamara Wilson when she auditioned for – and won – a Sara Tucker Study Grant in 2008. I was blown away non but by the power and sheer beauty of her voice, simply also past how grounded she is as a person. Last year, when I was listening to the Sabbatum matinee broadcast ofAida from the Met and realized information technology was her singing the championship role, I couldn't have been more than impressed by how she's evolved as an artist. She has a bright future ahead of her, and we are thrilled to have her as our 2016 Richard Tucker Award winner."

Wilson is not the just CCM-trained vocalist honored by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation this year. Woodbury, a soprano who studied with William McGraw  while attending CCM, has been named a 2016 Richard Tucker Career Grant recipient. Selected through a vocal competition, these grants are provided to singers who accept begun professional careers and who have already performed roles with opera companies nationally or internationally. As previously reported, Woodbury was awarded the Foundation's Sara Tucker Grant in 2014.

Most the Richard Tucker Music Foundation
Founded in 1975, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation is a non-profit cultural arrangement that honors the creative legacy of the neat American tenor through back up of talented American opera singers and past bringing opera into the community.

The Foundation's awards program offers grants for study, operation opportunities and other career-enhancing activities, thereby providing professional person development for singers at several levels of career-readiness. You can learn more about the Richard Tucker Music Foundation by visitingrichardtucker.org/most.

Soprano Tamara Wilson (BM Voice, 2004).

Soprano Tamara Wilson (BM Phonation, 2004).

About Tamara Wilson
American soprano Tamara Wilson fabricated her much-anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut in December of 2014 in the title role ofAida, when theNew York Times praised the "laserlike authority of her high notes," and observed: "Her phonation blooms with her palpable interest in her own story: Her singing is urgent, her physical performance restrained still powerful."

Nominated for a 2016 Olivier Accolade for Outstanding Achievement in Opera after her English National Opera debut concluding autumn equally Leonora inLa forza del destino, the soprano will make further debuts next season at the Bayerischer Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin. She was a finalist in the 2004 Metropolitan Opera National Quango Auditions, a Grand Prize Winner at Barcelona's Annual Francisco Viñas Competition, a winner of the George London Award and the recipient of both a 2008 Sara Tucker Study Grant and a 2011 Richard Tucker Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.

Subsequently launching the nowadays season headliningAida at the Aspen Music Festival, Wilson returned to Oper Frankfurt as Elisabeth de Valois inDon Carlo; sang Lucrezia in Verdi'due southI due Foscariin Santiago, Chile; made her Cleveland Orchestra debut; and joined Marin Alsop for Mahler in São Paulo. Back in the States afterwards touring Japan as Rosalinde inDie Fledermaus nether the baton of Seiji Ozawa, the soprano looks forwards to taking Brahms's German Requiem on an Due east Coast tour with Seraphic Burn down and singing Desdemona inOtelloat Cincinnati's May Festival, in commemoration of James Conlon's 37th and final yr as Music Director. Concluding season Wilson made her part and firm debuts headliningNormaat Barcelona'south Gran Teatre del Liceu, post-obit recent debuts at Houston G Opera, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and Carnegie Hall. In addition to being a CCM graduate, Wilson is besides an alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

CCM alumna Amanda Woodbury.

CCM alumna Amanda Woodbury.

Almost Amanda Woodbury
An alumna of Los Angeles Opera'south Domingo-Colburn-Stein Immature Artist Program, Amanda Woodbury was recently honored with the 2d identify and Audience Pick awards in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition. She likewise won the 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a 2014 Sara Tucker Study Grant, and both second place and Audience Selection awards at Houston Yard Opera'southward Eleanor McCollum Contest.

Woodbury made her professional person debut every bit Micaëla in Carmen at Los Angeles Opera, where she returned as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte. She so joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, appearing equally Tebaldo in Don Carlo and covering the roles of Antonia and Stella in Les Contes d'Hoffmann.

This season she sang Leïla in Les pêcheurs de perles at the Met, and looks forward to actualization as Musetta in La bohème with the Los Angeles Opera. Having taken part in the Met's "Ascent Stars" concert tour, she looks forwards to headlining a new Met product of Roméo et Juliette and making house debuts at PORTopera as Micaëla in Carmen and at Atlanta Opera as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Woodbury completed her Master's Degree in Vocal Operation at CCM in 2012, after receiving her Available of Music from Indiana University.

In a 2014 interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer, Woodbury reflected on her recent success and on her time at CCM, telling Janelle Gelfand:

"I sang ii roles onstage [at CCM], Donna Anna in Don Giovanni  and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites . I can't tell you how much that has helped my career. Information technology helped me to prepare for the next step, and simply everything they did opened upwards doors for me. I'm so glad I went to CCM, because I passed up Juilliard for CCM."

You lot can read the Enquirer'south total interview with Woodbury onlinehere.

Learn more than virtually the achievements of CCM'south students and alumni by subscribing to The Village Newsouth!
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Story by Curt Whitacre

Five voice students were named winners of CCM'south2016 Opera Scholarship Competition, which was held on Saturday, March 12, in UC'southward Corbett Auditorium.

Since its inauguration in 1976, the annual competition welcomes current and incoming CCM vocalisation students to compete for scholarships and cash prizes, and a panel of judges composed of opera industry professionals selects each year's course of prizewinners.

The 2016 CCM Opera Scholarship Competition winners are:

Kayleigh Decker (get-go twelvemonth Master of Music student)
From Woodstock, Md., studying with William McGraw
Prize: Total-tuition scholarship and the Corbett Honor ($15,000)
 The Corbett Award is supported past the Corbett Foundation in cooperation with the University of Cincinnati Higher-Conservatory of Music.

Christian Pursell ( first year Master of Music student)
From Aptos, Calif., studying with Thomas Baresel
Prize: Full-tuition scholarship and the Italo Tajo Memorial Award ($15,000)
 This award is supported by the Italo Tajo Memorial Scholarship Fund (established by Mr. Tajo's wife, Mrs. Inelda Tajo) in cooperation with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Erica Intilangelo (2d year Master of Music student)
From Fairfield, Conn., studying with William McGraw
Prize: Full-tuition scholarship and the Andrew White Memorial Award ($12,500)
 This award is supported past the Andrew White Memorial Scholarship Fund in cooperation with the University of Cincinnati College-Solarium of Music.

Murrella Parton (starting time year Master of Music student)
From Seymour, Tenn., studying with William McGraw
Prize: Full-tuition scholarship and the Seybold-Russell Award ($ten,000)
 The Seybold-Russell Award is supported by the Seybold-Russell Scholarship Fund in cooperation with the University of Cincinnati College-Solarium of Music.

Grace Newberry (offset yr Chief of Music pupil)
From San Rafael, Calif., studying with William McGraw
Prize: Total-tuition scholarship and the John Alexander Memorial Honour ($x,000)
 This honor is sponsored past the John Alexander Memorial Scholarship Fund in cooperation with the University of Cincinnati College-Solarium of Music.

The following student also received an award as part of the competition:

Alexandra Schoeny(incoming Md of Musical Arts student)
From Cincinnati, Ohio
Prize: Corbett Incentive Award for new graduate students ($2,000)
 This laurels is supported by the Corbett Foundation in cooperation with the Academy of Cincinnati Higher-Solarium of Music.

The judges' panel for CCM's 2016 Opera Scholarship Competition included:

  • Michael Heaston,Managing director of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and Advisor to the Creative Manager at Washington National Opera and Acquaintance Artistic Managing director of Glimmerglass Festival

  • Peter Kazaras,Professor of Music and Manager of Opera at UCLA Herb Albert School of Music

    Stage Director

  • Viswa Subbaraman,Artistic and Music Director of the Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee

About CCM Opera
The Department of Opera at CCM boasts i of the nigh comprehensive grooming programs for opera singers, coaches and directors in the United States. Students at CCM piece of work with some of the about renowned teachers and artists active in opera today.

CCM students often advance to the final rounds of the Metropolitan Opera National Quango Auditions. As recently reported past the Cincinnati Enquirer , four singers with ties to CCM avant-garde to the semi-final round of this year's Met Auditions.

In add-on, CCM's Mainstage and Studio Series of Opera accept received some of the National Opera Clan Production Competition's highest honors throughout the years, taking home half dozen of the 18 not-professional prizes awarded in 2010 and four prizes in 2011.

CCM Opera graduates accept performed on the stages of the globe's greatest opera companies, including Cincinnati Opera, Metropolitan Opera (New York), Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera (London), La Scala (Italia) and more.

CCM's 2015-16 opera season concludes next month with Janáček'due south classic  The Cunning Little Vixen(Apr eight – 10), conducted by Mark Gibson with phase direction by Vince DeGeorge. Acquire more about the production at ccm.uc.edu/boxoffice/mainstage/cunning-piddling-vixen.
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CCM Season Presenting Sponsor and Musical Theatre Program Sponsor: The Otto Thousand. Budig Family unit Foundation

Community Partner: ArtsWave

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and University of Cincinnati Higher-Solarium of Music (CCM) are honored to announce the 2 institutions are the combined recipient of a $900,000 grant from The Andrew Due west. Mellon Foundation . This grant volition exist used to pilot a groundbreaking collaborative fellowship program aimed at developing young, graduate-level musicians from underrepresented populations and preparing them for the professional orchestra globe.

The CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship Program responds to a need among American orchestras and professional music conservatories, which face up problems of underrepresentation, and is driven past the mutual desire of the CSO and CCM to foster a more inclusive environment in the orchestral manufacture. Selected graduate schoolhouse Fellows from underrepresented populations will participate in a specialized ii-yr program that is already garnering attention amid leaders throughout the music earth. This educational opportunity volition consist of frequent performances with the CSO, focused mentorship by professional person CSO musicians, and simultaneous enrollment in a master's or creative person diploma degree programme at CCM where fellows will be guided by CCM'south illustrious faculty.

Learn more at Cincinnati.com.

Learn more at Cincinnati.com.

"We looked at the data and saw that only iv percent of American orchestra musicians were African-American or Latino, a figure that is too reflected in conservatory settings," said Trey Devey, CSO President. "The CSO and CCM felt it essential to address this issue head-on and provide life-irresolute experiences inside a highly creative and multidisciplinary artistic environment for graduate-level musicians beyond the country."

"There are many fine programs designed to accost underrepresentation in our industry, but none of those experiences include both a major American symphony orchestra and a major solarium. Together, CCM and the CSO will provide unparalleled experiential learning opportunities for immature musicians on the verge of a professional career," said CCM Dean Peter Landgren .

"CCM and the CSO are perfectly positioned for this initiative. Our organizations' recent partnership with the Cincinnati World Pianoforte Competition, our joint Conducting Fellowship, as well equally the big number of CSO musicians who are CCM alumni and serve as CCM faculty, speak to the deep connections between our ii institutions. As the birthplace of cooperative education, the University of Cincinnati also serves every bit the perfect backdrop for this new approach to professional mentorship for musicians," said Mr. Landgren.

CCM's Concert Orchestra, performing at the annual Moveable Feast gala event.

CCM's Concert Orchestra, performing at the annual Moveable Feast gala event.

How the Fellowship Works
The four-yr pilot program, equally funded by The Andrew Due west. Mellon Foundation, will graduate two classes of upward to five Fellows each through June 2019. Fellows volition consist of graduate level string musicians who are simultaneously enrolled in CCM's master's or artist diploma degree programs. Each class of Fellows will include upwards to two violins, and one each of viola, cello and double bass. They will perform 5 weeks per season with the CSO in a progressive sequence of concert weeks based on plan difficulty, with one week focused on community engagement and educational activities.

These Fellows volition exist provided with a unique support organisation built on intensive professional mentorship. In addition to the customs formed with other Fellows, they volition receive focused mentorship by CSO musicians, which includes advance coaching sessions prior to a rehearsal cycle, ongoing stand partner coaching throughout rehearsal weeks and mail-performance feedback. There will likewise be structured time for not-performance related mentorship such as career counseling and audition preparation.

Additionally, Fellows will receive a CCM Fellowship Stipend and one time Graduate Dean'southward Excellence Accolade, with opportunities for additional performing and non-performing community engagement activities through CCM, eight career evolution seminars including mock auditions and full tuition scholarships.

Application procedures and deadlines will exist announced at a later date.

The Anticipated Impact
It is anticipated this new fellowship opportunity will attract talented young musicians from throughout the nation.

"I recall I speak for all the musicians of the CSO, and particularly those of us who will exist deeply involved in mentoring, that in seeking to identify and prepare more underrepresented musicians for orchestral auditions, we will be helping make American orchestras richer," said Stacey Woolley, CSO violinist. "In that location is such a varied career path bachelor to musicians in every facet of professional music, and fostering this awareness with the next generation will go on to serve orchestras and communities for decades to come."

An alumnus of CCM, Landgren has a beginning-hand understanding of the life irresolute opportunities this new initiative volition provide. "Every bit a educatee at CCM, I had the rare privilege of performing as an extra musician with the CSO. That transformative learning experience led to my 29-year career as a musician with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra," he explained. "When I returned to CCM as the Dean, developing a program to provide similar opportunities for tomorrow's professional musicians became a driving priority."

Both the CSO and CCM extend sincere gratitude to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its boggling impact in making this Diversity Fellowship Program a reality.

"Without the extraordinary support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this groundbreaking new fellowship programme simply wouldn't be possible," said Mr. Devey. "It advances the Orchestra's already potent and laurels winning commitment to more inclusiveness, a goal we share with the customs nosotros serve."

"This generous souvenir from The Andrew West. Mellon Foundation will raise the already world-class UC College-Conservatory of Music and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra by enabling a unique partnership between 2 not bad Cincinnati institutions," said UC Foundation President Rodney Grabowski . "The collaboration is a smashing example of the academy's commitment to inclusion initiatives, focus on the cooperative teaching and dedication to the performing arts."

For more information nigh about this historic announcement, check out Janelle Gelfand'south coverage on Cincinnati.com today and be sure to selection up the Sunday, July nineteen, edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer for the full story!

Janelle Gelfand reviews Marco Tutino'south new opera Two Women, which serves as a San Francisco Opera debut for CCM alumnus Edward Nelson (BM Vocalisation, 2011; MM Phonation, 2013)!

You can read her total recap online at hither.

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Italian diva Anna Caterina Antonacci took her cue from Sophia Loren as the character Cesira in "Two Women" Italian diva Anna Caterina Antonacci took her cue from Sophia Loren equally the character Cesira in "Two Women"

Marco Tutino'southward new opera "Two Women," which takes identify in state of war-torn Italy during Earth War II, has ane stirring moment. Virtually the stop of Act I, Rosetta (sung by Sarah Shafer), the sixteen-year-old daughter of Cesira, lifts her pure-toned soprano in a poignant prayer for peace. It becomes a touching anthem for the whole village, as they bring together her a lush chorus, singing "Male parent, do non carelessness united states," every bit battles are growing closer to their village.

To a full State of war Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Opera presented the earth premiere on Saturday of the hotly-anticipated opera, "Two Women" ("La Ciociara") by Tutino, to his libretto with Fabio Ceresa. As the creators told us in a panel give-and-take on Friday, the opera is based on Alberto Moravia's novel, but not and then…

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CCM's Summer Performance Series  is heating upward this week with the return of the Cincinnati Globe Piano Contest !

If you missed the coverage in yesterday's Cincinnati Enquirer , yous can detect Janelle Gelfand's all-encompassing report on the Competition online here . Encounter how our new subclass format works in the video below!

The First Round of the 2015 Cincinnati Earth Piano Competition continues through June 10, with the Semifinal Round scheduled for June xi. On Saturday, June 13, our finalists have the stage with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for the summertime's can't-miss concert!

Tickets are still bachelor for all rounds of the Competition and are on sale now through the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Box Office !