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Vocal Studies at Nazareth


The Nazareth College Department of Music offers high quality instruction to voice students in all music degree programs. Students study the fundamentals of vocal technique, repertoire, and performance practices privately with the Nazareth voice faculty members. Performance opportunities include weekly studio class, studio recitals, honors recitals, guest master classes, opera workshop, symphonic/choral productions, vocal jazz ensemble, and music theatre. In addition to private study, the Department offers courses in vocal pedagogy, diction, song literature and performance practices. Every year, the Opera Workshop produces a full production utilizing students in all its musical and technical aspects. Other unique performance and educational opportunities are offered through the Annual Vocal Fest and the Nazareth College Vocal Pedagogy Series.

Nazareth voice faculty members are active performers in opera, operetta, oratorio, solo recitals, musical theater, and are members of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). In June 2005, the Nazareth College Voice Area hosted the NATS Intern Program.

Recent guests include internationally known artists such as Steven Daigle, Dan McCabe, Kathyrn Cowdrick, Robert Swensen, Constance Haas, Maria Russo, Robert McIver, William McIver (late), Carol Webber, Benton Hess, Helen Boatwright and Myrna Paris.

The Nazareth College Voice Area offers educational and performance opportunities to area high school students through the Summer School of the Arts Musical Theater Program and the Barbara Staropoli Singing Competition.

 

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Singing with piano

Voice Faculty


Mario Martinez, MM, Coordinator
Amy Cochrane, MM
Joan Floriano, MM
Andrea Folan, MM

JJ Hudson, DMA
Soo Yeon Kim, DMA
Robert Strauss, DMA
Kimberly Upcraft-Russ, DMA

Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn, MM

 

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Vocal Fest 2008

Tuesday November 4, 2008

3:00 p.m.

Children Are Singing;Teachers Need To Be Teaching Them"
Robert Edwin, master teacher/presenter

A workshop/presentation on the training of children's voices.
Wilmot Recital Hall
Open to the public

6:30 p.m.

Guest Master Class- Musical TheaterTechniques
Robert Edwin, master teacher

Linda Boianova, pianist
Wilmot Recital Hall
Open to the public

     
Wednesday November 5, 2008
3:00 p.m.

Teaching Teachers Teaching Music Theater"
Robert Edwin, master teacher/presenter

Linda Boianova, pianist
Room A183
Open only to voice teachers and NATS membwers

5:30 p.m. Guest Master Class- Musical Theater Techniques
Robert Edwin, master teacher

Linda Boianova, pianist
Room A183

Open to the public

   
Sunday November 9, 2008
1:00 p.m. The Barbara Staropoli Singing Competition

Open to high school students in their junior and senior years (11 & 12 grades), in classical and musical theater categories.
Competition is closed to the public

6:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony and Winners Recital

Wilmot Recital Hall
Open to the public


 

The 2008 Barbara Staropoli Singing Competition

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2008

PROGRAM

Time Events Venue
12:15 PM Adjudicators meeting A183
12:45 Orientation Wilmot Hall
Open to the public
1:00-3:30 First round of auditions

Wilmot Hall, Rehearsal Hall Rooms A72, 183, 187

Events closed to the public

3:30 Judges Deliberation  
4:00 Announcement of finalists Wilmot Hall
Open to the public
BREAK
4:30 Final round

Wilmot Hall, Rehearsal Hall

Events closed to the public

6:00 Judges Deliberation  
6:30 Awards Ceremony and Winners Recital Wilmot Hall
Open to the public

 

 

First round contestants

Wilmot Hall, 1:00-3:00 PM

 
Musical Theater Category  
Time Name Pianist
1:00p Alyssa Lackey Spindler
1:10 Taryn Snyder Haverly
1:20 Joey Commilleri Cortese
1:30 Courtney Scheer Dupra
1:40 Charles Belfield Cortese
1:50 Alex Garcia DiCesare
2:00 Jake Hayes Simboli
2:10 Jessica Iodice DiCesare
2:20 Lauren Young Senobroto
2:30 John Cummings Dearstyne
2:40 Beth Hyland Adams
2:50 Kyle Kier Lun

 

First round contestants

Room A72, 1:00-3:00 PM

 
Musical Theater Category  
Time Name Pianist
1:00p Connor Creagan Hurd
1:10 Catherine Pluta  
1:20 Steven Russell Biviano
1:30 Nathaniel Barnett Haverly
1:40 Maria Dell’Anno DiCesare
1:50 Sheena Finlayson  
2:00 Marissa Bland Cortese
2:10 Madison Osgood Adams
2:20 John Alati Mueller
2:30 Taylor Kelly DiCesare
2:40 Casey Costello Bobb
2:50 Tyler Johnson Dearstyne

 

First round contestants

Room A187, 1:00-3:00 PM

 
Musical Theater Category  
Time Name Pianist
1:00p Nakiya Peterkin DiCesare
1:10 Ronnie Lewis Meadows
1:20 DeAnne Stewart DiCesare
1:30 Natasha Youngman Meadows
1:40 Christian Palmer Palmer
1:50 Gracie Martin Haverly
2:00 Trent Jeffords White
2:10 Ricky Schroeder Lieb
2:20 Marissa Volonino Cortese
2:30 Gentaro Ramadhan Adams
2:40 Chloe Partsch Partsch
2:50 Katie Germano Pratt

 

First round contestants

Rehearsal Hall, 1:00-3:00 PM

 
Classical Category  
Time Name Pianist
1:00p Leah Schumacher Cortese
1:10 Irina Majumdar LaFavor
1:20 Sarah DeMarco Schifino
1:30 Shelly Massachi Adams
1:40 Lyndsey Boyer Dearstyne
1:50 Matthew Marrese Dearstyne
2:00 Katie Bryant Spindler
2:10 Morgan Munley Dearstyne
2:20 Matthew DiDonna Noble-Rosema
2:30 Gina Komor Condit
2:40 Ahisha Stewart Williams
2:50 Laura Pagani Frost

 

First round contestants

Room A183, 1:00-3:10 PM

 
Classical Category  
Time Name Pianist
1:00p Katie Edinger Dearstyne
1:10 Bridget Casey Adams
1:20 Tony Ortiz-Potter Dearstyne
1:30 Katherine Larson Spindler
1:40 Molly Deacon LaFavor
1:50 Pamela Torrey Adams
2:00 Katie McAninch LaFavor
2:10 Andrea Harriott McLaughlin
2:20 Jessica Mauger Anderson
2:30 Lindsay Wells Bala
2:40 Vincenzo Catarisano Ray
2:50 Julie Conlon Thomas
3:00    
3:10 Rachel O’Gorman Dearstyne

 

 

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SUNDAY, November 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m.
Wilmot Hall, Rehearsal Hall, Nazareth College
Sponsored by the Nazareth College Music Department

Eligibility:

Open to all high school students enrolled in their junior and senior years (Grades 11-12).

Categories:

Classical and Musical Theater. Contestants may apply to one category only.

Repertoire:

Musical Theater:Three (3) pieces of contrasting styles: one up-tempo, one ballad, and one selection that predates 1960.

Classical category: One (1) Early Italian Art Song or Aria. One (1) American Art Song from the 20th century. One (1) selection from the Classical/or Romantic Art Song Literature.

Pianists

Contestants must provide pianists and page-turners, if necessary. Pre-recorded accompaniments will not be accepted. Pianists will be allowed to play for a maximum of 5 contestants

Competition Date

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m.
Wilmot Hall of Music, Nazareth College

Awards

Two (2) first prizes of $300.00. One in each category.
Two (2) second prizes of $200.00. One in each category.
Two (2) third prizes of $100.00. One in each category.

Winners Recital

All prize winners will perform for a Winners Recital at the end of the competition.

Adjudication

Judges will be from the Nazareth College Music and Theater Departments. Finalists will be selected to participate in a second round that afternoon. Written comments will be provided to each participant. The students should provide music scores. Awards will be announced at the completion of the competition.

The schedelue of events, audition times will be posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Application Forms must be postmarked by Wednesday, October 27, 2008. Please forward a non-refundable Registration Fee of $25.00, (checks payable to Nazareth College, Music Department, memo Staropoli Competition), and completed Application Forms to:

Mario E. Martinez. Coordinator of Vocal Studies
Music Department, Nazareth College
4245 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14618

 

The Results of the November 2007 Barbara Staropoli Singing Competition

The winners of the November, 2006 Barbara Staropoli Singing Competition are as follows:

Classical Category:
First Prize ($300.00) ---Julia Natoli, 17 years old, 12th grader at Penfield High School, from Fairport, NY, a student of Sandra Boysen.
Second Prize ($200.00)---Bridget Casey, 16 years old, 11th grader at Our Lady of Mercy Hill High School, from Pittsford, NY, a student of Susanna Adams
Third Prize ($100.00)---Claire Doran, 17 years old, 12th grader at Ithaca High School, from Ithaca, NY, a student of Deborah Lifton.


Musical Theater Category:
First Prize ($300.00)---Richard Rosenthal, 17 years old, 12th grader at Newark High School, from Newark, NY, a student of Elizabeth Phillips.
Second Prize-Tie ($200.00)---DeAnne Stewart, 16 years old, 11th grader at Greece Athena High School, from Rochester, NY, a student of Judith Ranaletta.
Third Prize- ($100.00)---John Cummings, 16 years old, 11th grader at Greece Athena High School, from Rochester, NY, a student of Judith Ranaletta.

 

Voice Area News

Seventeen voice majors from the Nazareth College Department of Music participated in the annual CNYFL-NATS  (Nationnal Association of Teachers of Singing Central New York-Finger Lakes Region Chapter) Student Auditions this past Saturday, October 25, at Ithaca College. Several of our students were advanced to the final round, chosen from the approximately 170 students who participated from all colleges in the region.

Bass-baritone Zachary Ligas, a Music Education major from the voice studio of Dr. Robert Strauss, won the second prize in the Junior Men Category.

 

Studio Recital Form

Please download the Studio Recital Form, complete and submit it to the appropriate office.

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