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as the title roles of Anna Bolena, Alcina, Vanessa,
and Rusalka . On the concert stage Cantin has been
heard as a soloist in Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder,
Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s
Gloria, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Major
highlights of her recent concert activities were
performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with
the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Portland
Symphony, and the Illinois Philharmonic as well
as solo appearances at the Ravinia Festival, the
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Grant Park
Music Festival. This season will mark Cantin’s role
and house debut at Pacific Opera Victoria singing
Leonore in Fidelio, she will join the Canadian
Opera Company for Strauss’ Elektra , and she
will be featured as the soprano soloist in Verdi’s
Requiem with the Okanagen Symphony Orchestra.
Stephen Carroll, tenor
Benjamin F. Hirsch Memorial
Fellowship* from Mr. and Mrs.
Denis J. Healy, Frances L.
Osgood Fellowship* from Mrs.
Gilbert H. Osgood, Soretta and
Henry I. Shapiro Fellowship*,
Mary Herron Replogle Memorial Fellowship*
Praised for his powerful, colorful singing, Stephen
Carroll just completed a full season at Virginia
Opera, where he sang First Philistine in Samson et
Dalila, Harry in La fanciulla del West, Snout in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Normanno in Lucia
di Lammermoor. An avid interpreter of contemporary
music, Stephen has workshopped roles for the world
premieres of Clint Borzoni’s The Copper Queen,
Jake Heggie’s Great Scott, and Stella Sung’s The
Book Collector, and he covered Richard Croft as
the tenor soloist in the premiere of Jake Heggie’s
Ahab Symphony. He participated twice in Stephanie
Blythe and Alan Smith’s contemporary American
song festival, Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar and
was subsequently invited to perform as Ms. Blythe’s
guest on a recital at Merkin Hall in New York City.
Recently, Stephen was seen as Dr. Blind in Die
Fledermausat Santa Fe Opera, Cassio in Otello at
Dayton Opera, and Siegfried in Act 2 of Siegfried
at Queen City Opera. Upcoming debuts include the
role of Niobe in the world premiere of PermaDeath,
a new video game opera, with White Snake Projects
in Boston, as well as a principal artist debut with
Virginia Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.
Antonina Chehovska, soprano
Morris and Evelyn Muskal
Fellowship, Stephen and Susan
Rappin Fellowship
Ukrainian born soprano Antonina
Chehovska is a 2016 prizewinner
of the prestigious George London
Foundation Competition. She is also the recipient
of multiple awards in 2016, including first prize
from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, a grant award
from the Gulio Gari Foundation, and the Frances
MacEachron Award from The Lyndon Woodside
Oratorio-Solo Competition. Ms. Chehovska is also
prizewinner of the Cooper-Bing Competition, the
Schuyler Foundation Career Bridges Grant, Bel
Canto Vocal Scholarship, and twice the winner of
the Michigan District Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions, which advanced her to the
Great Lakes Regional finals in 2014 and 2015.
Ms. Chehovska’s 2016-17 engagements included
her debut with New York Festival of Song in New
York Philharmonic’s Festival Beloved Friend —
Tchaikovsky and His World at Merkin Hall and Vocal
Arts DC; Micaëla in Carmen with Opera Columbus;
Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème for the Giulio Gari
Foundation; soloist in Haydn’s Missa in tempore
belli “Paukenmesse” at Carnegie Hall, under the
auspices of Manhattan Concert Productions; Journey
Through Eastern Europe with Bulgarian Concert
Evenings in New York; Soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony with Camerata New York, and outreach
performances with Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
as Mimì. In the summer of 2016 she sang Mimì in
Leoncavallo’s La bohème with International Vocal
Arts Institute. In the 2015-16 season, Ms. Chehovska
made her New York City recital debut at Opera
America’s National Opera Center. An alumni of the
University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre
and Dance, Ms. Chehovska sang the title role of
Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos , Donna Elvira in Don
Giovanni, and La Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro.
She holds two masters degrees from the University
of Michigan, one in performance (voice) and one in
conducting.
Edward Cleary, baritone
TheCeliaK.andSolJ.Hammerman
Memorial Fellowship*
Baritone Edward Cleary, from
Brockton, Massachusetts, recently
completed his first year as an
Emerging Artist with Virginia
Opera. He has received degrees from Boston
University and Mannes College of Music. Roles
performed while at Mannes include the title role in
Gianni Schicchi, Minksman in the NewYork Premiere
of Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Dulcamara in L’elisir
d’amore, Don Prudenzio in Il Viaggio a Reims, and
Gideon March / Dashwood in Little Women. At
Boston University, he was seen as Gregorio in
Romeo et Juliette and received the Ellalou Dimmock
Award, the university’s top award for undergraduate
singers. Edward was a 2016 Grant winner of The
Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition. Other
performance highlights include the opening concert
of the Opus Arts Festival in Jerusalem with the Isreali
Camerata and the role of Count Malcolm in A Little
Night Music with the Lidal North program in Oslo,
Norway. Currently, Edward lives and works in New
York City and this fall will join Indiana University as
a Performer Diploma candidate.
Sarah Coit, mezzo-soprano
Carol L. Linne and Carl E. Horn
Fellowship*
Sarah Coit is a native of Spring
Hill, FL. As a 2015 Gerdine
Young Artist with Opera Theatre
of St. Louis, she covered Richard
in the American Premiere of Handel’s Richard the
Lionheart. Spending two summers as an Apprentice
Singer at the Santa Fe Opera, she covered Erika in
Vanessa, sang Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, and
covered Laurene Powell Jobs in the World Premiere
of Mason Bates’ The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.
She spent two years as a Resident Artist at Utah
Opera where she sang the Shepherd/Cat/Squirrel
in L’enfant et let sortileges, Mercédès in Carmen ,
and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She recently sang
Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Michigan
Opera Theatre and will make her Seattle Opera
debut in 2019 as Mercédès in Carmen. In Fall, she
will create the role of Adonis in the premiere of Dan
Visconti and Cerise Jacobs’ “interactive video game
opera” PermaDeath in Boston. She was a 2017
National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions and a 2018 George
London Competition Finalist. Sarah holds degrees
in Music Studies and Theatre Performance from the
University of South Florida and a Masters degree
from the University of Michigan.
Mario Diaz-Moresco , baritone
Howard A. Stotler Fellowship*
An active interpreter of Art Song,
Opera and new music, Mario
Diaz-Moresco is garnering
attention for his versatility
and strong stage presence.
Mr. Diaz-Moresco studied at the University of
Colorado, the University of Southern California
and recently completed the Professional Studies
Diploma program at Mannes The New School,
where he is a student of Diana Soviero. He has
been a young artist with Central City Opera, The
Glimmerglass Festival, Chautauqua Opera and a
Stern Fellow at Songfest. Highlights from recent
seasons include recitals with pianist Spencer Myer
on California’s ”InConcert Sierra” series, the Dame
Myra Hess Memorial Series in Chicago and the
Rocky River Chamber Music Society of Ohio, in
addition to Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Baritone
in Hydrogen Jukebox, William in The Fall of the
House of Usher, playing the lead role in Robert
Ashley’s Dust, which was named one of the 10 best
classical music performances of 2017 by the New
York Times, and premiering the song cycle The
Wanderlusting of Joseph C. by Joan La Barbara at
Roulette, a performance which was repeated at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Simona Genga, mezzo-soprano
Grace Bersted Fellowship*,
Mason Foundation Fellowship,
Eleanor L. Scher Memorial Voice
Fellowship* from Ms. Scher’s
family, HSBC-North America
Fellowship*
An assiduous and devoted musician, Mezzo
Soprano Simona Genga is at once “compelling
and technically confident” (Opera Canada) and
“formidable” (Saint Louis Dispatch). An avid
interpreter of song, Simona had her recital debut
with the Elora Festival this July, and received the
RSMI
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