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Carmen Pelton, a renowned American soprano who has appeared in a wide range of works with orchestras, opera houses, chamber music groups, Equity drama theaters, and Off-Broadway productions, will present a vocal master class for William Paterson University students and singers from the area on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. in Shea Center 101 on the William Paterson campus in Wayne. Admission is free.
Music will include songs and arias buy Leonard Bernstein, Seymour Barab, Aaron Copland, John Duke, Gian-Carlo Menotti, and Ned Rorem. Performers include University music majors Brenda Belohoubek of Wyckoff, Christina Nicastro of Dunellen, Iliya Roitman of Weehawken, Christa Cook of Butler, and Shannon Maddolin of Dumont. Barbara Bailey of Mountain Lakes and Nina Rangel of Morristown are alternates. Music adjunct faculty member Warren Helms will serve as accompanist.
Pelton has performed with such diverse groups as the San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Tulsa Opera, West German Radio Orchestra, Goodman Theater, the Smithsonian’s 21st-Century Consort, the New York Festival of Song and the Library of Congress. Her solo performances are on two recordings that won Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album of the Year: Barber, Bartok and Vaughan-Williams with the Atlanta Symphony in one of Robert Shaw's last recordings, and William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, recorded by Naxos at the University of Michigan.
Pelton won critical acclaim in the role of Susan B. Anthony in the New York Off-Broadway revival of Virgil Thomson’s opera Mother of Us All; she was subsequently invited to perform the final scene from the opera at the televised Kennedy Center Honors program at which Thomson was honored. An associate professor of voice at the University of Michigan, she taught on the faculties of the University of Washington, The Eastman School of Music, Brevard Music Center, and the Aspen Music Center and School.
For additional information on the master class, please call the William Paterson University Music Department at 973-720-2315.
