Alumni Concert
2022-03-10 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-04-21 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-10-13 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-04-13 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-10-12 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Philadelphia, PA
2022-03-12 09:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Berkeley, CA
2022-03-26 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Tijuana)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Indianapolis, IN (canceled)
2022-04-09 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)

Master Class with Julia Bullock, soprano
2022-04-10 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
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Schmidt Vocal Competition: Minneapolis, MN
2022-04-23 09:00 - 18:00, 2023-04-15 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Virtual Tennessee Cohort (Applications open March 1, 2022)
2022-04-24 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Tacoma, WA
2022-05-07 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Chicago, IL
2022-05-14 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Boston, MA
2022-05-15 09:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Virtual Independent Cohort -1pm (Applications open April 1, 2022)
2022-05-21 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Virtual Independent Cohort - 3pm (Applications open April 1, 2022)
2022-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Las Vegas, NV
2022-10-09 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Master Class with Laquita Mitchell, Soprano
2022-10-09 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Soprano Laquita Mitchell consistently earns acclaim on eminent international opera and concert stages worldwide. Ms. Mitchell performed the soprano soloist in the world première of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road at Carnegie Hall with Oratorio Society of New York which was nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Best Choral Performance.

This season, engagements include Brahms’ Requiem and a Bel Canto Gala with Albany Pro Musica, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for the Memphis Symphony, The Ordering of Moses for the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, a Holiday Concert for the Princeton Symphony, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Lima Symphony Orchestra, and Sanctuary Road for Chautauqua Symphony. Ms. Mitchell will also create the role of Julie in the World Premiere of Grammy Award-Winner Rhiannon Giddens’ OMAR with the Spoleto Festival USA, perform the role of Robinetta in On Site Opera’s production of Rachel J. Peters’s Lesson Plan, and reprise the role of Josephine for New Orleans Opera. Upcoming, Ms. Mitchell will return to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Mahler’s 4th Symphony, as well as Verdi’s Requiem.

Master Class with Melissa Wegner, Metropolitan Opera
2022-11-13 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Melissa Wegner joined the artistic staff of the Metropolitan Opera in 2011 and currently serves as Executive Director of the National Council Auditions. She hears hundreds of young singers annually and is passionate about assisting them with their career development. Additionally, Ms. Wegner hears artists in stage and screening auditions at the Met and works with the Met’s New Works Commissioning program to cast its workshops. A judge for the District, Region and National MONC Auditions, Ms. Wegner has also adjudicated the SAI Vocal Competition, the McCammon Voice Competition, and the Belvedere Competition in South Africa and Russia. As a soprano, Ms. Wegner has performed opera, concerts and recitals in the United States and Europe. She joined New York City Opera as a Supertitles Associate and continues this work on a freelance basis with organizations including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, BAM, and Opera Orchestra of New York. Ms. Wegner is a member of Families of FANA WNY, which fundraises to support the orphanage in Colombia from which she was adopted. She is a Trustee of the Foundation Board of SUNY Potsdam, and founding member of the Alumni Board of Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program. Ms. Wegner holds degrees from Bard College, The Manhattan School of Music, and The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

Webinar: How To Pay For Graduate School
2022-11-17 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Boulder, CO
2022-12-03 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)

Master Class with Kelly Kuo, Conductor
2022-12-11 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Praised by the Cincinnati Enquirer as “a leader of exceptional musical gifts, who has a clear technique on the podium and an impressive rapport with audiences,” Maestro Kelly Kuo brings a dynamic versatility and nuance to a diverse repertoire, which includes over 90 operas and an expansive symphonic repertoire as well. Currently Artistic Director of Oregon Mozart Players and Associate Artistic Director of American Lyric Theater, his recent operatic engagements include Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Kentucky Opera, Anchorage Opera, and the Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center. In 2008, Maestro Kuo became the first conductor of Asian descent to lead a performance at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, making his company debut with Porgy and Bess. He has since returned to lead the Chicago premiere of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird and performances featuring artists of the Ryan Opera Center.

Master Class with Darrell Babidge, Juilliard
2023-01-08 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Darrell Babidge is chair of the voice faculty at The Juilliard School. Darrell was born in Bournemouth, England. He graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in the U.K in vocal performance and received his Master’s degree from Brigham Young University and his Professional degree in vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music, funded by Birgitt Nilsson. While still a student, he performed the title role of Britten’s ‘Owen Wingrave’ with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and London Philharmonic Orchestra. Darrell has performed in Europe, America and Asia, and in venues that include the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall.

Darrell joined the Juilliard Vocal Arts department in the fall of 2019. He also began teaching the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists and the Fellow Scholars of Lin-Manual Miranda (‘Hamilton’) in 2020. He was on the voice faculty at Brigham Young University from 2006-2019, and taught the Utah Opera Resident Artists and the Arizona Opera Studio Artists as their resident teacher. During the summer he is a vocal coach with Dolora Zajick at the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, and will be teaching at Santa Fe Opera this year.

Master Class with Angela Brown, Soprano
2023-02-05 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Angela Brown personifies the ideal soprano: sheer vocal power; luxurious finesse; and shimmering, high pianissimos. With a charming personality larger than life, she unites opera, pops, and gospel in one sensational voice and has graced the leading opera and symphonic stages across six continents. A featured artist on the two-time Grammy Award® winning recording “Ask Your Mama,” Angela’s international reputation continues to grow.

Her highly successful Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Aida captured instant attention from international print and broadcast media and catapulted Angela onto the world’s prestigious opera and symphonic stages. Headlines from The New York Times read: “At last an Aida,” and CBS Weekend News proclaimed: “the future of opera has arrived!” followed by features on the front page of The New York Times, on CNN, in Oprah Magazine, Essence Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Classical Singer, Reader’s Digest, and Psychology Today.

While opera is the main catalyst for her career, Angela’s performance experience includes everything from star emcee to producer, recording artist, podcast host, and program creator. Her most fervent endeavor is the founding and advancement of Morning Brown, Inc., a nonprofit with the mission of bridging the gap between accessible, live-music programs and historically excluded individuals, schools, and communities. Drawing on the success of her groundbreaking show, Opera…from a Sistah’s Point of View©1997, Morning Brown works to bring cultural experiences and awareness to cultural deserts. In 2020, she launched a new podcast with Classical Music Indy and co-host Joshua Thompson titled “Melanated Moments in Classical Music.” Now in its fourth season, the first season landed in the top 10% of all podcasts for listeners and won Best Black Music Podcast of 2020. She is also the Artistic and Educational Ambassador of Indianapolis Opera.

Webinar: Tips for Voice Teachers
2023-02-09 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)

Master Class with Tom Cipullo, Composer
2023-03-05 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Hailed by the American Academy of Art & Letters for music that displays “inexhaustible imagination, wit, expressive range and originality,” composer Tom Cipullo’s works are performed regularly throughout the United States and with increasing frequency internationally. The winner of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2013 Sylvia Goldstein Award from Copland House, and the 2013 Arts & Letters Award from the American Academy, Mr. Cipullo has received commissions from Music of Remembrance, SongFest, Joy in Singing, the Cecilia Chorus, the New York Festival of Song, the Mirror Visions Ensemble, Sequitur, Cantori New York, tenor Paul Sperry, mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart, the Five Boroughs Music Festival, pianist Jeanne Golan, soprano Martha Guth, soprano Hope Hudson, the Walt Whitman Project, baritone Jesse Blumberg, and many others. He has received multiple fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and awards from the Liguria Study Center (Bogliasco, Italy), the Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), the Oberpfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus (Bavaria), and ASCAP. The New York Times has called his music “intriguing and unconventional,” and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has called him “an expert in writing for the voice.” Other honors include the Minneapolis Pops New Orchestral Repertoire Award (2009) for Sparkler, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Award (2008) for the song-cycle Of a Certain Age, and the Phyllis Wattis Prize for song composition from the San Francisco Song Festival for Drifts & Shadows (2006).

Schmidt Vocal Competition: Winston-Salem, NC
2023-03-11 09:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)

Master Class with Kathleen Kelly, Coach
2023-04-16 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Kathleen Kelly’s projects and repertoire are wide-ranging and diverse. From Mozart to commissioned works by her peers, she is both deeply experienced in the classical vocal canon and engaged in new creation. The first woman and first American named as Director of Musical Studies at the Vienna State Opera, Kathleen’s operatic experience is the backbone of her career. Trained at the San Francisco Opera, she joined the company’s music staff and moved from there to a long association with the Metropolitan Opera. She was head of music at Houston Grand Opera, and music director of the Berkshire Opera before moving to Vienna. Since returning to the USA in 2015, Kathleen has conducted at the Glimmerglass Festival, Wolf Trap Opera, Arizona Opera, El Paso Opera, Opera Columbus, the Merola Program, and the Alexandria Symphony, and has been a regular visiting coach for the prestigious young artist programs of Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company. Recently she joined the Cincinnati Opera to assist on the workshop of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, slated for a 2019 premiere with the Los Angeles Opera.
