Michael Cavalieri,
Sean Clark, Anne-Kathryn Olsen*,
Erik Gustafson,
Justin Carpenter,
Lauren Chapman.
MICHAEL
CAVALIERI was the featured
baritone soloist with theChicago
Civic Orchestra inGustav
Mahler's SONGS OF A WAYFARER,
tenor
SEAN CLARK is a new member of
the Metropolitan Opera's
auxiliary chorus,
soprano
ANNE-KATHRYN (KATY) OLSEN sang
the role of
Emily
in the world premier
of Mark Shreshinsky'sMachine-A
Fire Operafor San
Francisco'sCrucible Theater.
She'll will sing the soprano
solos in J. S. Bach's
St. Matthew Passion with San
Francisco's
American Bach Soloists in
early 2012. She was
selected to participate as a vocal artist with
the summer Baroque festival TAFFEL
MUSICK
in Toronto this summer.
Katy just received her
masters in Vocal
Performance
from The
San Francisco Conservatory
this spring and won the San Francisco VOICES OF MUSIC
Competition. Here's Katy: * Anne-Kathryn
Olsen Video
tenor ERIK GUSTAFSON sang
the role of The Evangelistin
thePhoenix Bach Society's recentSt.
John Passion, district
and
regional Metropolitan Competition Winner JUSTIN CARPENTER
covered Goro
and performed Yakuside
in the Arizona
Opera's production of Madame
Butterfly,
and LAUREN CHAPMAN was
a featured
guest actress onTNT TV's
The Closer.
Tregoney
Shepherd, Kelly Jeanne Grant*, Ray Gabbard, Alyssa Chiarello, Sookyoung
Kim and Catherine Wong.
TREGONY SHEPHERD is
touring with the National Disney
Company of Mary Poppins as Mrs.
Brill ( Treg is aformer
member of the Phantom of the Opera
and Les
Miz Broadway and National
tour casts and was cast as The
Witch
in Into
the Woods and Mrs. Nellie
Lovett
in Sweeney
Todd for ASU LOT ).
KELLY
JEAN GRANT joined the cast of
Phantom
of the Opera on Broadway in
New York (She
recently essayed the role of Christine
on the Phantom national tour and was Kathy in the Toni Award winning Broadway
revival production
of of COMPANY).
Here's Kelly:
Tenor
RAY GABBARD now lives in
London, England and teaches Drama. He was Raoul
in Phantom
of the Opera on Broadway, in
Hamburg, Germany and in the U. S. National Tour. He also did
the role of THE MAN in Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind
in the UK. He was recently awarded a distinguished alumni award for
contributions to the performing arts by his Idaho high school.
ALYSSA CHIARELLO
sings her first Anita
in West
Side Story in a
Phoenix area theater while SOOKYOUNG
KIM
(asTuptim)
and CATHERINE
WONG (as Lady Tiang),
sang recently in a local production of Rodgers
and
Hammerstein's The King and I.
Catherine was just cast in Sunset
Boulevard
for the Arizona
Broadway Theater.
Eddie
Maldonado, Michelle Chin, Cullen Law,
Katy Frederick,Tommy Strawser and Kayte Zhang.
EDDIE MALDONADO
played the Master of Ceremonies,
MICHELLE
CHIN played Sally Bowes
and CULLEN
LAW stage directed
ASU Lyric Opera Theater's production of CABARET
(Michelle won
a Young
Artist Scholarship from
the ariZONI
Theater Committee last year.
Eddy and Michelle are currently in Phoenix Theater's production of GYPSY and Eddy will immediately
join a tour of LEGALLY BLONDE
after it's close.
KATY
FREDERICK played Frenchie, TOMMY STRAWSER,
the young German Soldier
andKAYTE ZHANG
was Lulu.
Kayte was also the recipient
a Young
Artist Scholarship from
the ariZONI
Theater Committee.
Michelle and Eddie were just cast in the Phoenix Theater
production of GYPSIE.
Cuillen was Charlie Brown
in ASU LOT production of Your a
Good Man,
Charlie Brown recently.
Miranda
Crispin, Ithamar Enriquez*,
Jen Goma*,
Krystina Helena, Ethan DePuy and Hannah Bentley
MIRANDA CRISPIN is in Paris,
France. She has been headlining as a jazz soloist there (New York Bar, Cafe
Fantasia, Le Darling, L'Autrement Bon, Eurodisney,
etc.), performing with jazz pianist Laurent Bronner, the
Firebird Quartet, and the Clambo Septet. She's
teaching
musical theatre and voice at the Conservatoire
Americaine, and she's
directing a cabaret called "Screen
to Stage"
at the Theatre
Adyar in Paris.
ITHAMAR ENRIQUEZis
in Los Angeles in TV work and already has been seen on The Office, Raising
Hope, Rules of Engagement, Hawthorne, Law and Order: LA, Disney's
Austin and Ally and Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Commercially, he's done spots for Esurance,
Dunkin
Donuts, Ace Hardware, Cymbalta, Bridgestone and McDonalds.
Here's Ithamar
KRYSTINA
HELENA
(nee Alabado), after a two year tour of SPRING AWAKENING and
cast
member in the Broadway run of AMERICAN
IDIOT,
is touring with the National Tour
of American Idiot. The news is in: ETHAN DEPUY will be an
apprentice singing artist at THE
ASH LAWN OPERA
in Virginia this summer.
HANNAH
BENTLEY just moved to New York!
Justin Staebell, Jason Fleck, Rachel Policar*, Eric Perry,
Kelly Sullivan & Lindsey Geroux
Baritone JUSTIN STAEBELL
was soloist in a performance of the
St. John Passion
with the Phoenix Bach Society
recently. He'll solo in the ASU Symphony performances of Brahms Requiem
soon. Baritone JASON
FLECK
was Tommy Albright in BRIGADOON with Broadway Palm
Theater.
The show will go to Florida in mid February for a few weeks and then
sings with the Phoenix Symphony
on their program AN EVENING WITH
RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
(March 29,30, April 1). Jason will be working with the Phoenix Theatre
developing a pre-professional training program for the summer, and
teaching music and acting classes.
ASU
double major
Vocal
Performance/Music Theater graduate '10 and soprano RACHEL POLICAR
continues at the Manhattan School
of
Music in her Vocal
Performance Masters studies. She's performed the role of Fire
in MSM's production of L'Enfant
et les
Sortileges, Bernanutte
the
Squirrel in "The Secret Music
Garden" for MSM outreach and
sang the
role of Josephine
in
Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS
Pinafore
with New
York's DaCapo
Opera recently. At the Manhattan School, she'll essay the
role of
Miss
Wordworth in Benjamin
Britten's
ALBERT HERRING on
the school's Main Stage. Rachel was just re-engaged by Da
Capo
and will sing the role of Josephine again in Pinafore in NYC.
She'll sing the role of Gretel in the Manhattan School's
Hansel and Gretelsoon.
Here's
Rachel:
Tenor ERIC
PERRY gave a recital in
November '11 of Australian art song which was a featured exhibit for
the Modern Masterpieces showcase at the Ballarat Art Gallery in Ballarat, Victoria
Australia December
he performed as a soloist in Handel's
Messiah
at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Buffalo with Gerald Thomas Gray,
conductor. In March of this year he will give his capstone choral
conducting concert in completion of my MM: Choral Conducting at University of
Massachusetts Amherst andin July he will be on voice
faculty of the Yogyakarta
International Music Festival in Indonesia,
working as a voice teacher and musical theater style coach
ASU
Music Theater Studio 303 Graduate
KELLY SULLIVAN
has been selected to play the role of Kate Howard
on ABC TV's GENERAL HOSPITAL.
She has been seen on Broadway in CONTACT, BELLS ARE
RINGING and replaced Sutton
Foster in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
LINDSEY GEROUX
just landed the role of Anna
in the Phoenix
Theater production of SPRING
AWAKENING. For more on
Lindsey, see below.
Jeffrey
Tucker, Nicole
Nowakowski, Melissa Nelson Kuproski,
Marcie
Goldstien,
Christine Whaley Malais Welty, &
Robbie
Kemp Bass baritone
JEFF TUCKER is
currently in Norfolk, VA singing the title role in MIKADO. Virginia
Opera still tours and he'll also sing Gilbert & Sullivan's
delightful villain in Fairfax and in Richmond. He and wife
Aya
are expecting Sadie Ayane Tucker due June 28th! At that time he'll
singing the not so delightful villain Sparafucile in Rigoletto with the
Lake George Opera in Saratoga, New York.
NICOLE
NOWAKOWSKI was just cast ast Ellen
in this spring's Front Row
Theater
production of Bullets over
Broadway.
MELISSA NELSON
KUPROSKI teaches elementary
school music for the Chandler, AZ school system. MARCIE
GOLDSTEIN FRIEDMAN is the head of her own Music therapy
placement
business located in Plano, Houston and Austin, Texas.
CHRISTINE WHALEY
MALAIS WELTY COOLEY is
directing a
brand new musical based upon the life of Babe Didrikson (called Babe: An Olympian
Musical).
Dirikson was one of the top 50 Athletes in America's history and a
founding member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. The
production will be performed the
Studio Artist's
Theatre in Paradise Valley,
AZ. MM Tenor ROBBIE KEMP has
a voice studio in Iowa City, Iowa and works with local musical theater
groups as an actor and coach. He's headed to LA soon.
Cameron Becker, Tracy
Wise
ASU Studio 303 Vocal
Performance Graduate
'06 and tenor CAMERON BECKER
is in the second year of his two-year contract
with THE
REGENSBURG OPERA in
Bavaria near Munich, Germany. His challenging role
assignments for the coming year are: Jamie
in The Last Five Years, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Victorent
in Die
tote Stadt, Cosmo in Singing in the Rain, and Alfredo in La
Traviata.
Cameron is a recent artist diploma recipient from the
MOZARTEUM in
Salzburg, Austria. He was married to Lisa Rah in Kansas City
last July.
Studio 303 Member
TRACY WISE sang the
role of Pedrillo in the
Spring/2011 Arizona Opera
Production of Mozart's THE
ABDUCTION FROM THE
SERAGLIO. Tracy
has made a name for himself singing featured and character tenor roles
around the United States with opera companies in Chicago, St. Louis,
Dallas, Toledo, Mobile and others. He visited a studio class
in April
commented on a few singers and fielded questions from current studio
members. When not performing, he charters and captains his
own boat
which is anchored on the Hudson River in the New York City Harbor.
Three
New Studio Members for Spring 2012
Music Theater
Freshman Nicole Nowakowski
comes to Studio 303 from Scottdale's Saguaro High School. ASU Opera Theater
Masters Baritone Devin Barad
hails from Albuquerque, NM and DMA in Vocal Performance
candidate Helena Yip
is from Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
In
December, 2011: Lauren
Gasic &
Lindsey Geroux were featured
soloists with the Phoenix
Symphony Orchestra in four
concerts. Colte Julian*
appeared on National TV.
Senior
Lauren
Natalie
(left nee Gasic), was a guest soprano soloist for the Phoenix Symphony
Holiday
Concert
Series performed in December, 2011. Recent Musical Theater
Graduate and Studio 303 member Lindsey
Geroux
was also featured solo artist on the Phoenix Symphony New Year's Eve
Concert
in January.
Studio 303
Lyric Baritone Colte Julian
(right above), is currently headlining in the Chicago production of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
as the
Jerry Lee Lewis character.
In early December, the four leads (including Colte), appeared
on
the
Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Here's Colte:
Hannah
Bentley and Peter Walsworth graduated December 15, 2011
with
Bachelors degrees in Vocal
Performance.
Tenor
Justin
Carpenter:District
and
Regional
Finalist in the
Metropolitan Opera
Auditions
Tempe’s own
tenor JUSTIN
CARPENTER is one of
four ASU Studio 303 members
to have won the district Metropolitan
Opera
Auditions joining Costa Rican
mezzo-soprano ILSE APESTEGUI,
Russian bass-baritoneYEVGENIY CHAINIKOV
and Texas soprano LAUREEN PICKLE.
2011
AriZONI MUSICAL THEATER AWARD WINNERS!
Studio 303 AriZONI
award winners for 2011 are ALYSSA CHIARELLO
for Martha
in ASU LOT’s The Secret
Garden,
EDDIE
MALDONADO for Ethan
in Arizona Broadway Theater’s production of The Full Monty,
TREGONEY
SHEPHERD for the Witch
in LOT’s Into The Woods
(her second Zoni and also a 2011 ArZoni
Scholarship
winner), and CULLEN LAW
for Dickon
in the ASU production of The
Secret Garden.
Other studio nominees were CHRIS
CHAVEZ,
MICHELLE
CHIN (Second-year AriZoni
Young Artist
Scholarship recipient), JEFFREY
STEVENS.
303 Soprano KAYTE
ZHANG also won an AriZoni
Young Artist
Scholarship. Soprano Jeehyun
Kim, ASU DMA
•This past opera
season in
Seoul, Korea, former Studio 303 soprano Dr. Jeehyun Kim
'08 sang the title role in Puccini's
TOSCA
(Be So To Opera Company) in July, Musetta (Incm Opera
Company),
in Puccini's LA BOHEME
in February and Nedda (Noble Art Opera Company pictured below),
in Mascagni's I PAGLIACCI
to be done in November. Recently, the Korean
Music
Critics' Association, Jeehyun
won the Outstanding
Young Artist
Award in collaboration with
the
Seoul Republic Newspaper.Earlier
last season, she sang her
first Michaela in Bizet's CARMEN
with the Seoul National Opera
Company in Korea in July/2010
and repeated the same role for the opera in Prague,
Czechoslovakia later in the
2010/2011 season.
She
was just promoted to Full
Professor of
Voice at
SAN MYOUNG UNIVERSITY in
Seoul specializing in Voice Instruction, French Diction and Vocal
Pedagogy. JeeHyun has also been cast as Adina in a coming
production of Donizetti's ELISIR
D'AMORE
to be performed in Seoul next season. She gave her
professional debut recita at Seoul's famous Sejong
Concert Hall and in addition to her busy performing
schedule and her busy teaching career, Jeehyun has three
Children.
See 303 Kids
Coming-up next year,
Jeehyun will also sing the role of Cho-Cho San in Pucinni's MADAME
BUTTERFLY.
