California State University-Fresno Opera Workshop 2009-2010
2009 Fall Scenes Program
Finales: The Perfect Ending:Finales from great operas.
A Midsummer Nights Dream, Benjamin Britten
Little Women, Mark Adamo
Summer and Smoke, Lee Hoiby
Manon, Jules Massenet
Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim
Marriage of Figaro, W.A. Mozart
2010 Spring Production: Elixir of Love, Donizetti
April 30th 4-6pm Wahlberg Recital Hall Audition Workshop (recommended)
May 7th 4-6pm Wahlberg Recital Hall Audition
Auditions are open to current and prospective students. Please prepare two contrasting songs or arias. Please bring a resume.
Sign-ups for both the class and the audition are by appointment by emailing aradford@csufresno or signing up on Dr. Radford's studio door. Accompanist will be provided.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Choir Tour Days 2 and 3
This week the concert choir, jazz choir and chamber singers completed their tour of Central California. The main event was a concert in Merced on Tuesday night. On Wednesday we headed to Modesto to two high schools. Solos were heard from Christin Day, Corey Liggans, Alyssa Maas and Timothy Howard. In all it was a great and busy tour. We have a really wonderful group. They are professional, efficient and they sound great! If you are interested in auditioning for Fresno State Voice please call Dr. Anthony Radford at 559-278-7593.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Choir Tour Day 1
Today the choirs kicked off their tour with a visit to Madera South High School. Warm-ups started at 8:30 at Fresno State and then buses were taken to Madera. All three choirs, the concert choir, jazz choir and chamber singers sang for the students at Madera South. We also heard from students Isaac Villanueva and Anne Webster who sang opera arias. Then we listened to Madera South's fine choir conducted by former Fresno State grad Mr. Roger Harabedian.
Then after lunch we headed to Sunnyside High School in south Fresno. All three choirs performed and former Sunnyside students Brittany German and Valerie Salcedo sang opera arias. We then listened to the Sunnyside High School Choir conducted by former Fresno State grad Mr. Davis Maga.
Tomorrow we are on to Ceres and Modesto!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Congratulations!
Fresno State voice students Isaac Villanueva, tenor, Josh Bear, bass and Guy Barnes, baritone, all won scholarships from the Fresno Musical Club. They were all winners of the Fresno Young Vocalist Award. The finals of this competition took place last Saturday in Fresno.
Fresno State undergraduate voice students regularly win awards for their singing and go on to major conservatories and universities for their Masters degrees. Once there, these students often find that they are better prepared than their new colleagues for the challenges of graduate school. At Fresno State we give our voice students wonderful vocal instruction, a comprehensive diction class, stage time in scenes and opera productions and many opportunities to sing in choirs and travel on tour. Tomorrow (March 11th) in the Concert Hall the Concert Choir sings with the Fresno State Orchestra and soloists in the Te Deum by Dvorak.
Fresno State undergraduate voice students regularly win awards for their singing and go on to major conservatories and universities for their Masters degrees. Once there, these students often find that they are better prepared than their new colleagues for the challenges of graduate school. At Fresno State we give our voice students wonderful vocal instruction, a comprehensive diction class, stage time in scenes and opera productions and many opportunities to sing in choirs and travel on tour. Tomorrow (March 11th) in the Concert Hall the Concert Choir sings with the Fresno State Orchestra and soloists in the Te Deum by Dvorak.
Friday, March 6, 2009
It has been a good week
It has been a good week at Fresno State. Yesterday Dr. Michelle Latour, Assistant Professor of Voice at Bluffton University in Ohio and Porterville native gave a very interesting, beautifully sung and well attended recital of music for voice and violin. She then gave a master class for the voice students. Joshua Bear, Alyssa Maas, Valerie Salcedo, and Emily Broderick performed.
Anne Webster gave a stunning recital Friday night in Wahlberg Recital hall as part of her Vocal Performance Degree. She ended with spectacular performance of the aria Glitter and Be Gay. Congratulations to Anne.
Next week has the voice students participate in a joint concert between the Fresno State Orchestra, the Concert Singers and soloists in celebration of Dr. Phyllis Irwin's 8oth birthday and her contribution to the Fresno State Music Department as its longtime chair.
The following week the Concert Singers go on a tour of the Central Valley.
Auditions for entrance into voice at Fresno State are being held on March 19th 2009 between 4 and 6pm. Contact Dr. Anthony Radford at aradford@csufresno.edu if you would like an audition.
Monday, March 2, 2009
The benefits of studying voice at Fresno State
From time to time on this blog, we will be mentioning various benefits of studying voice at Fresno State. Today's blog is about our wonderful staff accompanist Hatem Nadim. Mr. Nadim is known across the world for his performing and coaching. His biography is below. What every prospective student should know is that each voice student receives coaching from Mr. Nadim at no extra charge. We offer unheard of access for undergraduates to our faculty and staff; weekly one-on-one voice lessons with voice faculty and bi-weekly coachings with Mr. Nadim. Match this kind of attention with other schools you may be considering. Is your potential voice teacher full-time at these other schools? Do you get free coachings from a top vocal coach? Here is Mr. Nadim's bio.
Mr Nadim was born in Cairo (Egypt). At the age of ten he visited the Cairo Conservatoire, where he studied solo piano with R. Yassa, V. Fedorovtzew and V. Samaliotow and graduated with honors. Later, as a music scholarship winner at the University at Frankfurt (Germany), he continued his post-graduate studies in chamber music and vocal accompaniment, with Professors Joachim Volkmann and Rainer Hoffmann, where he earned his degree.
From 1989 to 1996 he held the position of faculty member at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz teaching solo piano. In 1989 he accepted the coveted position as faculty member at the University of Music in Mannheim, where his responsibilities included those of collaborative pianist, chamber music coach and piano accompaniment teacher. In September 2006, Mr. Nadim was appointed staff accompanist at California State University in Fresno.
Hatem Nadim has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, Korea and the Middle East. He has performed chamber music with some of the most renowned performing artists including Leslie Parnas, Arto Noras, Michael Flaksman, Susanne Rabenschlag, Jean-Michel Tanguy, Michael Hasel, the Verdi Quartet, Herrmann Voss and Helene Joseph-Weil.
Mr. Nadim has several recordings, the latest of which is a complete collection of the Mozart Violin Sonatas and Variations with the German violinist, Susanne Rabenschlag for Avi-Music and Deutschland Radio.
At the end of 2008 he will start recording the complete Violin Sonatas of Beethoven and the German Romantiks (Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn) also with Susanne Rabenschlag.
So there you have it. Mr. Hatem Nadim!
A reminder that this week Dr. Michelle Latour from Bluffton University will be at Fresno State.
Thursday March 5th at 12:30 p.m. Dr. Michelle Latour and Prof. Felix Olfschofka a Violin/Voice Duo will be performing in recital. This will take place in the Concert Hall.
Then in Wahlberg Recital Hall between 1:35 - 3:00 p.m. Dr. Latour will give a master class sharing ideas and techniques she uses from her studies with OperaWorks. The students of all three Fresno State voice studios will take part.
Hope to see you there!
Mr Nadim was born in Cairo (Egypt). At the age of ten he visited the Cairo Conservatoire, where he studied solo piano with R. Yassa, V. Fedorovtzew and V. Samaliotow and graduated with honors. Later, as a music scholarship winner at the University at Frankfurt (Germany), he continued his post-graduate studies in chamber music and vocal accompaniment, with Professors Joachim Volkmann and Rainer Hoffmann, where he earned his degree.
From 1989 to 1996 he held the position of faculty member at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz teaching solo piano. In 1989 he accepted the coveted position as faculty member at the University of Music in Mannheim, where his responsibilities included those of collaborative pianist, chamber music coach and piano accompaniment teacher. In September 2006, Mr. Nadim was appointed staff accompanist at California State University in Fresno.
Hatem Nadim has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, Korea and the Middle East. He has performed chamber music with some of the most renowned performing artists including Leslie Parnas, Arto Noras, Michael Flaksman, Susanne Rabenschlag, Jean-Michel Tanguy, Michael Hasel, the Verdi Quartet, Herrmann Voss and Helene Joseph-Weil.
Mr. Nadim has several recordings, the latest of which is a complete collection of the Mozart Violin Sonatas and Variations with the German violinist, Susanne Rabenschlag for Avi-Music and Deutschland Radio.
At the end of 2008 he will start recording the complete Violin Sonatas of Beethoven and the German Romantiks (Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn) also with Susanne Rabenschlag.
So there you have it. Mr. Hatem Nadim!
A reminder that this week Dr. Michelle Latour from Bluffton University will be at Fresno State.
Thursday March 5th at 12:30 p.m. Dr. Michelle Latour and Prof. Felix Olfschofka a Violin/Voice Duo will be performing in recital. This will take place in the Concert Hall.
Then in Wahlberg Recital Hall between 1:35 - 3:00 p.m. Dr. Latour will give a master class sharing ideas and techniques she uses from her studies with OperaWorks. The students of all three Fresno State voice studios will take part.
Hope to see you there!
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