 David Cangelosi has firmly established himself as an artist who combines both
excellent singing and winning characterizations. He is highly acclaimed by all
major opera companies and symphony orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. In 2004,
Mr. Cangelosi made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Mime in
Das Rheingold, conducted by James Levine and
returned in recent seasons for performances of Incredibile in
Andrea Chenier and Tinca in
Il Tabarro.
Other roles at the Metropolitan Opera include Basilio
(Marriage of Figaro), Goro (Madame
Butterfly), and Spoletta (Tosca).
Mr. Cangelosi will return to the MET this season for performances of
Nathanael/Spalanzani in The
Tales of Hoffmann. Recent performances include 'The Four Servants' (Hoffmann)
with the Santa Fe Opera, and Goro with the Dallas Opera, and Spoletta with Lyric
Opera of Chicago.
In 2009, Mr. Cangelosi sang Bob Boles
(Peter Grimes),
and Bardolpho (Falstaff) with Washington
Opera. He returned to San Francisco Opera to sing Mime in
Das Rheingold
and will perform Mime in both
Das Rheingold
and Siegfried
in their upcoming Ring Cycle in spring/summer of 2010. Mr. Cangelosi will return to
Dallas Opera for performances of Shuisky (Boris
Godunov) and Monostatos (The Magic
Flute), in upcoming seasons; as well as the Lyric Opera of Chicago for
La Fanciulla del West, Boris Godunov, and
The Tales of Hoffmann.
A former member of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, Mr. Cangelosi
made his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in
Salome in 1997. Engagements with the home
company have included
Madame Butterfly,
Ariadne auf Naxos,
Die Zauberflöte,
Carmen (Dancairo),
Turandot, and his internationally
acclaimed signature role of Mime (Siegfried).
He returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in recent seasons to sing Dr. Caius
in
Falstaff, Guillot (Manon),
and Goro (Madame Butterfly).
Cangelosi recently made his debut at the Spoleto Festival (U.S.A.) singing
the roles of the Noctambulist/Pape des Fous in
Louise, and performed as a featured
soloist for their Intermezzi Recital Series.
Recent and upcoming recital/concert performances include The Montgomery
Symphony, Davis Concert Hall (UAF) with Opera Fairbanks, and the PACC Concert
series in Boston.
Other recent performances include Pang with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and
Santa Fe Opera, Valzacchi with the San Francisco Opera, Dr. Caius with Los
Angeles Opera, and Monostatos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Hollywood Bowl)
and Santa Fe Opera.
Career highlights include,
Il Pagliacci
(Beppe) with Placido Domingo and the Washington Opera (telecast on the PBS "Live
from Kennedy Center" series) and his Carnegie Hall debut with the Cleveland
Orchestra as Torquemada in Ravel's
L'Heure Espagnole (under the baton of
Pierre Boulez).
In August and December 2000, he completed the CD/Film project of
Tosca and made his screen debut at the
Venice Film Festival in September 2001. Other appearances include Sellem in
The Rakes Progress (San Francisco Opera),
Don Juan in
Don Quichotte
(Washington Opera), and Tybalt in
Romeo et Juliette (Washington Opera).
Mr. Cangelosi has also sung Cassio with the Nashville Opera, Goro with Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, and The Magician in Menotti's
The Consul with the Berkshire Opera (available on CD).
Mr. Cangelosi continues his close association with The Lyric Opera of Chicago
with roles that include Beppe (Il
Pagliacci), Little Bat (Susannah),
Tobias (Sweeney Todd), Guillot (Manon),
and Uncle Donato in Lyric’s world premiere of William Bolcom’s
A
Wedding.
He performed Monostatos and Basilio with the Paris Opera (Bastille/Garnier)
and sang Pedrillo with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.
Other engagements have included
Fidelio (Jacquino) with the Cincinnati
Symphony, Pang with the Columbus Symphony, Prunier (La
Rondine) with the Boston Lyric Opera, and First Jew (Salome)
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood under Seiji Ozawa.
Additionally, Mr. Cangelosi has recorded the Sword Forging Scene from
Siegfried
with Placido Domingo for the CD "Domingo/Scenes from the Ring" with EMI
Classics.
He recreated his critically acclaimed role of Mime (Siegfried)
for Lyric’s 2005 Ring Cycle.
Mr. Cangelosi also serves as the Artistic Director of the Vann Vocal
Institute in Montgomery, Alabama; and actively travels the country as a
recitalist, symphonic guest-artist, and Master Class instructor for aspiring
vocalists.
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Steven Crawford
VVI Senior Principal Coach
Conductor/Principal Coach, Metropolitan Opera
Classical Singer Magazine Vocal Coach of the Year
 Maestro Crawford, whose final
season with the Metropolitan Opera included two
performances of La Bohème
of which one was his Sirius radio broadcast debut,
is one of today's most versatile opera conductors.
Shortly following those performances, he was chosen
to conduct the world premiere of HONOR, a requiem
for orchestra, chorus and soloists composed by
Christian McLeer in honor of those who have died in
service to our country. Recently, he conducted
the professional premiere of Glory Denied by Tom
Cipullo for the Remarkable Theatre Brigade, La Bohème
for the Inwood Shakespeare Festival, Otello for
Kentucky Opera, and Turandot for Dayton Opera.
In the year since he left the Met, Maestro Crawford
has conducted performances of Les Contes d'Hoffmann
for his second season with Martina Arroyo's Prelude
to Performance (for whom his performances of Don
Giovanni last summer were noted by the New York
Times as "lively, taut, and polished"), Don Giovanni
for Dayton Opera, Otello with Vero Beach Opera, and
The Medium/Pagliacci for Syracuse Opera. On a
different note, Maestro Crawford was recently
awarded the honor of Vocal Coach of the Year by
Classical Singer magazine. Dedicated to the
training of young singers, Maestro Crawford has been
both coach and conductor on the staffs of the
Westminster Summer Vocal Institute, Intermezzo,
Prelude to Performance, and the Bel Canto Institute
in Florence, Italy.
While still a member of the conducting staff at the
Met, his most recent projects included Faust, the
world premiere of An American Tragedy, and the
critically acclaimed revival of Cyrano. He
recently conducted Kirke Meecham's Tartuffe in
Portland OR, and earlier La Cenerentola with the
Cincinnati Opera, where he had been called "the find
of the evening" for stepping in on twelve hours
notice to conduct Il Barbiere di Siviglia,
simultaneously accompanying the recitatives on the
fortepiano.
Maestro Crawford continues to have an active career
in accompanying when his conducting schedule
permits. He has in the past accompanied
Justino Diaz and Pablo Elvira in Puerto Rico, Aprile
Millo in Sao Paolo, Richard Cowan on Belle
Île
en Mer, and Ortrun Wenkel and Håkan
Hagegåard
in Miami.
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Caren Levine
VVI Principal Music Coach
Director, Young Artists Development Program
Interim Artistic Administrator, Florida Grand Opera:
Principal Coach, Metropolitan Opera
 A native of New York City, pianist Caren Levine has
gradually established a reputation as one of today's
most compelling young artists. She has won
acclaim for her musicality, charm and sensitivity,
and is known for her intense and impassioned
performances. The San Francisco Chronicle
described her as "a petite powerhouse, with
technique to burn and unimpeachable musicianship.
She is one of the finest musicians around, of the
highest and most inspiring order." An alumna
of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist
Development Program, she has been on the roster of
the Metropolitan Opera House as Assistant Conductor
and Prompter since 2003. In 2010, she was
named Head of the Young Artist Program at Florida
Grand Opera and Principal Coach.
An active performer, Ms. Levine's collaborators
include Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman, Nadja
Salerno-Sonnenberg, Charles Neidich, Susanne Mentzer,
Morris Robinson, Susanna Phillips and Barbara Bonney.
Caren first performed with soprano Barbara Bonney at
the 1996 Tanglewood Music Festival. Since
then, they have toured throughout the United States,
Canada and Asia at venues which include the La Jolla
Chamber Music Society, Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society, Herbst Theater in San Francisco, Festival
Vancouver, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Van
Cliburn Concert Series, Seoul Arts Center, and a
live televised performance at the Hanoi Opera House
in Vietnam on the critically-acclaimed Hennessy
concert series. The Los Angeles Times noted
that Bonney was "seconded in every way by the
excellent Levine." She has also been featured
on WNYC Soundcheck with Bass Morris Robinson
(www.wnyc.org) and on ArtsPass with Tenor Lawrence
Brownlee (www.artspass.com).
Ms. Levine has worked as a vocal coach/pianist at
The Marlboro Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival,
Music Academy of the West, Tanglewood, Itzhak
Perlman Music Program, Berkshire Opera Company, Wolf
Trap Opera, and the opera companies in Palm Beach ,
Sarasota and Santa Fe. From 1998-2001, Ms.
Levine served as Assistant Professor of Piano and
Director of the Accompanying Option at California
State University, Chico. In addition to her
numerous achievements as a classical pianist, Ms.
Levine is active as a jazz composer and arranger.
Among her numerous recordings, a CD of her own piano
compositions entitled Flowers from a Secret
Admirer was released on Capstone Records.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Levine has
collaborated with the Miro and Artemis string
quartets as well as members of the Beaux Arts Trio.
She has been invited to perform at The Great Lakes
Chamber Music Festival, International Chamber Music
Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, Pacific Music
Festival in Japan, Banff Centre for the Arts in
Alberta, Canada, Savannah Music Festival, Manchester
Music Festival, Fontainebleau American Conservatory
in France and The Aspen Music Festival. As a
solo performer, Ms. Levine is a winner of the Munz-Chopin
Piano Competition in Maryland and gave a recital in
Carnegie Hall as the winner of the 1999 Artist's
International Auditions.
Highlights of her recent performances include
concerts at Harvard University, Spivey Hall in
Atlanta, a gala performance honoring Congressman
James Clyburn, the Ford Centre in Toronto, organist
in the Mozart Requiem and solo organist for
the National Chorale's Messiah Sing-In at Avery
Fisher Hall, recitals on the Marilyn Horne's On
Wings of Song concert series broadcast on WQXR
as well as the Pro Arte Musical series in Puerto
Rico, and prompter for the Metropolitan Opera
premiere of John Adams Doctor Atomic.
Upcoming performances include a benefit recital for
the Appeal of Conscience Foundation with violinist
Laurent Korcia, prompter for Phillip Glass's
Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera, and a third
season performing as solo organist for the National
Chorale's Messiah Sing-In at Avery Fisher Hall.
Ms. Levine received a Bachelor of Music degree from
The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University
and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard
School. She has studied under Martin Canin,
Samuel Sanders, Lillian Freundlich, Ken Noda,
Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida.
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Patricia Risley
VVI Principal Vocal Coach
Mezzo-Soprano, Principal Artist,
Metropolitan Opera
 Opera News hails Patricia Risley for "her
voice...luscious and agile, her characterization
both boisterous and tender" as well as her beautiful
"singing with ease and certainty." Patricia
Risley returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Flora in
the Willy Decker production of La traviata
in addition to joining the company for its
productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia
and Faust. She also returns to her acclaimed
characterization of Cherubino in Le nozze di
Figaro with Opera Colorado. Last
season, she made her debut with New York City Opera
as Dinah in Bernstein's A Quiet Place.
She also created the role of Evvy Powers in
Machover's Death and the Powers at
Oper de Monte Carlo and returned to Florentine Opera
for Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Santa
Fe Opera for Margaret in Wozzeck,
and Palm Beach Opera for Dorabela in Così
fan tutte in addition to singing the
Stewardess in Dove's Flight with
Austin Lyric Opera.
Ms. Risley is a frequent guest at the Metropolitan
Opera where she made her debut as Tebaldo in
Don Carlo and has returned for Tisbe in
La cenerentola, Ciesca in
Gianni Schicchi, and Mercedes in
Carmen. Additionally, she enjoys a
strong relationship with the Lyric Opera of Chicago
as a former member of the company's prestigious Ryan
Opera Center (formerly Lyric Opera Center for
American Artists) and has since performed thirteen
roles with the company, including Siebel in
Faust, Stephano in Roméo
et Juliette, and Meg Page in
Falstaff.
The winner of a 2001 Aria Award was recently heard
as Sesto in Giulio Cesare and Stéphano
in Roméo
et Juliette with Houston Grand Opera;
Cherubino in Le nosse di Figaro at
the Ravinia Festival, Palm Beach Opera, and with the
Israeli Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta;
Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia
and further performances of Sesto in Giulio
Cesare at the Opera Colorado; Dorabella in
Così
fan tutte, and Varvara in Kátya
Kabanová
with Santa Fe Opera; Angelina in La
cenerentola and Komponist in
Ariadne auf Naxos with Utah Opera;
Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro,
Musetta in La bohème,
and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia
with Arizona Opera; and the title role in
Carmen with Palm Beach Opera. Other
engagements in America include Octavian in
Der Rosenkavalier for Opera Pacific, Siebel
in Faust with Opera Company of
Philadelphia, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni
with Minnesota Opera, Meg Page in Falstaff
with the Minnesota Orchestra, Flowermaiden in
Parsifal with Los Angeles Opera,
Diana in La Calisto, and the title
role in Cesti's Orontea with Music
of the Baroque in Chicago, and Hansel in Hänsel
und Gretel with the Omaha Symphony
Orchestra. With both the Spoleto Festival
U.S.A. and Lincoln Center Festival, she sang the
roles of the Cat and Cuckoo in Respighi's La
bella dormente nel bosco. Celebrated
for her performances within contemporary repertoire,
she also recently created the roles of Kara Söndstrom
in the world premiere of Pasatieri's Frau
Margo with Fort Worth Opera (released on
Albany Records) and Diana in Bolcom's A
Wedding followed by performances of Jordan
Baker in The Great Gatsby and
Moglie in the American premiere of Berio's
Un re in ascolto during her tenure at the
Lyric Opera of Chicago. She also joined
Florentine Opera for Sharon Falconer in Aldrige's
Elmer Gantry (available on the
Naxos label); Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles
Philharmonic , and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest at
the Concertgebouw for Miranda in Ades' The
Tempest; and Opera Theater of Saint Louis
for Estella in Argento's Miss Havisham's
Fire.
Her German debut took place at the Staatsoper unter
den Linden as Cherubino in a production of
Le nozze di Figaro, performances of
which were released as DVD on the Arthaus label.
She returned to the company for Donna Elvira in
Don Giovanni and Ernsto in Haydn's
Il mondo della luna, which she also
sang at the Innsbruck Festival. Elsewhere in
Europe, she sang Dorabella in Così
fan tutte and Donna Elvira in Don
Giovanni at the Teatro Real, La Musica/La
Speranza in Monteverdi's Orfeo and
Meg Page in Falstaff at the
Bayerische Staatsoper, and Anna in Die
Sieben Todsünden
at the Teatro Maggio Musicale.
Noted for her performances on the concert stage, she
has also has joined the New York Philharmonic for
Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream
and has also sung Mozart's C Minor Mass
with Boston Baroque, Israel Philharmonic, and
Chicago's Grant Park Music Festival and Berio's
Folk Songs and De Falla's
Three-Cornered Hat with the Oregon
Symphony. Additionally, she has presented a
recital under the auspices of the Wolf Trap
Foundation for the Performing Arts.
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Teresa Eickel
VVI Guest Lecturer and Special Guest Voice Teacher
Lyrico/Spinto Soprano, Lecturer, Vocal Specialist
 In the 2010-2011 season, Teresa Eickel will make her
debut as a solo recitalist at the Ravinia Festival's
Rising Star Festival. She will also
appear as the soprano soloist in Mahler's 2nd
Symphony, Resurrection, with the New Haven
Symphony. In the 2009-2010 season, she sang
the role of Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte
with Opera Memphis and the role of Cio-Cio-San in
Madama Butterfly with Festival Opera Walnut
Creek. She will also be featured in concerts
with the Salt Marsh Opera, Boheme Opera and
the Sanibel Music Festival. In the
2008-2009 season, Teresa performed Cio-Cio-San in
Madama Butterfly with Boheme Opera, a role
she has performed to great critical and audience
acclaim with Mobile Opera, Ashlawn Opera Festival,
Opera Fairbanks, San Francisco Lyric Opera, and the
Bear Valley Music Festival. She was also
featured as the soprano soloist in concerts with
Boheme Opera and in a concert series entitled
The Land that Might Have Been, featuring the
music of operetta composer, Ivor Novello.
In recent seasons, Ms. Eickel debuted in the role of
Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Opera
Memphis, the role of Liù
in Sacramento Opera's production of Turandot,
and the role of Mimi in La bohéme
with Salt Marsh Opera, a role she has also performed
with Treasure Coast Opera. A versatile
actress, Ms. Eickel has also sung the role of
Cherubino in Le Nosse di Figaro with Opera
Memphis, as well as Lost her Moccasins in Opera
Memphis's premiere of Corps of Discovery.
With Ashlawn Opera Festival, Ms. Eickel sang the
role of First Lady in The Magic Flute and
with Opera Theatre of Connecticut she performed the
role of Gretel in Hansel and Gretel.
She has also sung with Sarasota Opera and
Connecticut Opera.
Ms. Eickel has performed recitals in collaboration
with Ashlawn Opera and members of the Memphis
Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared as a
featured soprano soloist in a concert of operatic
selections with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
She has also performed in concerts with Lake George
Opera, the Trenton Symphony and Salt Marsh Opera.
Ms. Eickel is a three-time award winner of the
Sergio Franchi competition and a 2006 recipient of
the New Boston Fund Fellowship Award from the
Hartford Arts Council.
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Dr. Pamela Burns
VVI Guest Lecturer
Professor of Voice, Alabama State University
 Dr. Pamela-Teresa Burns,
soprano, received degrees from Alabama State
University (BME), Southern Illinois University (MM)
and the University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa (DMA).
A two-time regional winner of
the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, this soprano has
numerous appearances with the Montgomery Symphony
Orchestra, Frederick Hall Community Choir and has
served as guest Lecturer/Performer at the Hawaiian
International Conference on the Arts, College Music
Society (National Conference) and the National
Association of Negro Musicians (National
Conference), to name a few. She may be heard
on the CD recording of Poulenc's Gloria (Orchestral
Advantages) conducted by Adrian Gnam.
She is equally at home with
musicals and dramas. She has coached several
contestants who have won and placed in major Alabama
and Georgia Talent and Pageant competitions.
Dr. Burns has presented various Vocal Master Classes
to area high schools. She has participated and
serves as a soloist with Community Choral
organizations. She currently served as a
consultant to the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra's
Vann Vocal Institute.
Dr. Burns is known for her
stirring performances of Afro-American
Spirituals/presentation titled The Negro Spirituals:
From Southern Plantations to the Concert Stages of
America. Dr. Burns serves on various academic
committees and holds membership in National
Association of Teachers of Singing, College Music
Society, National Association of Negro Musician, to
name a few. She was recently awarded the "ASU
Legacy in Music Award for Excellence in Music
Education".
Dr. Burns is an avid believer
in music education and the promotion of the
classical arts. She encourages and provides
Graduate placement of ASU graduates seeing upper
level degrees.
Currently Dr. Burns conducts a
competitive vocal studio with vocal majors
participating in vocal competitions throughout the
region. She is a Professor of Music with 22
years of service to Alabama State University
Department of Music.
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Gene
Davis
VVI Guest Lecturer
Music Department Chair, Huntingdon College
Director of Choral Activities
 Gene J. Davis holds a
Bachelor's degree in Music from Samford University
and a Master's in Education from Auburn University.
She has served as an adjudicator for solo and choral
festivals in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. She
also serves as consultant and coordinator for the
Alabama National Fair Invitational Choral Festival.
Ms. Davis' professional
memberships include National Association of Teachers
of Singing, Alabama Vocal Association, having served
as District Chairman, Music Educators National
Conference, and American Choral Directors
Association, having served as State President,
Membership Chair, and currently serving as
Historian.
Over the past thirty years,
Ms. Davis' voice students have received various
honors, which include outstanding ratings at
statewide competitions and numerous scholarships to
colleges and universities across the southeast.
She has also had students selected to attend summer
music institutes at the University of Alabama Opera
Camp, Florida State University's Summer Music Camp
and Boston University's Tanglewood Institute.
In 1985, she founded the
Madrigal Voices of Montgomery, a community vocal
ensemble. This ensemble under her direction
has performed at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival
and other venues around the Southeast.
Ms. Davis received the 2003 Francis Moss Choral
Director's Award which is presented annually by the
Alabama Vocal Association to one of its members.
This lifetime achievement award represents
recognition for the positive impact a teacher has
had locally and throughout the state in choral
music. She was also inducted into the Robert
E. Lee Hall of Fame in 2004. This award
recognizes the achievements of alumni and teachers.
Ms. Davis graduated from Robert E. Lee in 1967 and
returned to her alma mater to teach from 1973 until
her retirement form the school system in 2001.
After retiring from public
education, Ms. Davis taught as an adjunct professor
at Auburn University and Huntingdon College.
In 2007, Ms. Davis joined the Huntingdon faculty as
Associate Professor. In 2008, she assumed the
position of Department Chair. Her teaching
include Director of Choral Activities, academic
music course and applied voice.
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Dr. Michael Hix
VVI Guest Lecturer
Coordinator of Choral/Vocal Studies, Troy University
Assistant Professor of Voice
 Baritone, Michael Hix
has been praised by critics for his "expressive
voice" and "commanding stage presence." Originally
from Ozark, Alabama, Hix holds a Bachelor of Music
degree in music theory from Furman University, dual
masters degrees in voice and historical musicology
from Florida State University and Doctorate of Music
in Voice Performance from Florida State University.
Recently Dr. Hix participated in the National
Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program
where he worked under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen
King.
Hix made his South American debut singing at the XII
Concurso y Festival Internacional di Canto Lirico in
Peru. Recent European performances include the bass
solos in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Heligmesse at
the International Haydn Festival in Vienna, Austria.
In June 2006 Hix was featured as a soloist on the
“Bernstein on Broadway” concert with the Boston
Pops. Conducted by Keith Lockhart, the concert
included selections from West Side Story, Candide,
Wonderful Town and On the Town.
In July and August of 2006, Hix was a vocal fellow
at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston
Symphony’s Institute for Advanced Musical Study.
While at Tanglewood he was featured in concerts at
Seiji Ozawa Hall, where he performed works by
Mozart, Dessau, and Copland, and Babbitt. In
addition to his performances while at Tanglewood,
Hix had the opportunity to coach with Dawn Upshaw,
Lucy Shelton, and Ken Griffiths, and sing in
masterclasses with James Levine, Kurt Ollman, and
Phyliss Curtin.
Recent operatic roles include Angelotti in Tosca,
Falke in Die Fledermaus, Lord Mountararat in
Iolanthe, Germont in La Traviata, Don Alfonso in
Cosí fan tutte, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress,
Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Noye in
Noye’s Fludde, Monterone in Rigoletto, and Bertouf
in the world premiere of A Friend of Napoleon by
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Robert Ward. Hix has
sung with Ohio Light Opera, Opera Birmingham,
Ashlawn-Highland Opera, Opera del Sol, Florida State
Opera, and Furman University Opera. Hix will make
his debut with the Greenville Light Opera Works as
Falke in Die Fledermaus in the Spring of 2011.
Past concert and oratorio solo engagements have
included Mendelssohn’s Elijah, J.S. Bach’s
Johannes-Passion, B Minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio,
and Lutherische Messen, Handel’s Messiah, John
Eccles’ Hymn to Harmony, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s
Carmina Burana, Vaughan William’s Hodie and Five
Mystical Songs, and Mahler’ Kindertotenlieder. Hix
has been featured in concerts with the Boston Pops,
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee
Symphony, Tupelo Symphony, Cobb Symphony, Montgomery
Symphony, Southeastern Symphony Orchestra,
Tallahassee Bach Parley, Okaloosa Chamber Singers
and Florida State New Music Ensemble. Upcoming
performances include Bach’s Cantata 158 with the
Okaloosa Chamber Singers, and a guest recital at
William Carey University in Mississippi.
As a musicologist, Hix is the winner of numerous
awards including the Simonton Literary Prize and a
student presentation award from the American
Musicological Society. His research has been
published in the Journal of Singing, the Choral
Journal, and the American Theater Organ Society
Journal. He has published reference articles in
Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century, The
Forties in America, and Great Lives: African
Americans all published by Salem Press. Dr. Hix is
contributing numerous entries in the forthcoming New
Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition. His
research interests include: Opera, Baroque vocal
music, silent film music, the theater organ,
politics and music, and 20th century song
repertoire.
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