Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2019

RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE 33 Tiffany Choe , apprentice soprano Soprano Tiffany Choe was born and raised in Southern California. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Music at Indiana University under the tutelage of Heidi Grant Murphy. In March she won an encouragement award in the Southeast Region of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She was most recently seen in Indiana University’s production of Bernstein’s Mass. During her time at Indiana University she has performed as Constance ( Dialogues of the Carmelites ), Rosalia ( West Side Story ), and Laoula ( L’étoile ). She has also been involved in many productions at Indiana University as an opera chorus member. This is her first time at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute. Edward Cleary , baritone Ravinia Associates Board Program for Singers 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 New York Premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Fligh t, 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. Dominick Corbacio , tenor Benjamin F. Hirsch Memorial Fellowship from Mr. and Mrs. Denis J. Healy, Soretta and Henry I. Shapiro Fellowship, Frances L. Osgood Fellowship from Mrs. Gilbert H. Osgood, Mary Herron Replogle Memorial Fellowship Dominick Corbacio, tenor, has spent the last three seasons as a Studio Artist at Florida Grand Opera, most recently performing the roles of Schmidt in Werther, Alejandro and Leon Trotsky in Frida, and Normanno in Lucia di Lamermoor . In 2018 he received third place in the Gulf Coast region finals of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was a grant award winner in The Gerda Lissner International Voice Competition in 2016. Originally from Syracuse, New York he has appeared at Opera Sarataoga in the roles of The Sailor in Dido and Aeneas , The King of Venice in the American premiere of Philip Glass’ The Witches of Venice , and as Fenton in Falstaff . In 2015, Corbacio was lauded by the New York Times as having given, “one excellent performance after another of the sublime ‘Du bist die Ruh,’” after being featured in Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Ashley Dixon , mezzo-soprano Lois M. Steans Fellowship from the Morrison Family Foundation Ashley Dixon, mezzo-soprano, grand finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions is in her first year of the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship program. In the upcoming season, she will be covering the role of Sara, Duchess of Nottingham in Roberto Devereux and will be making her main stage debut in Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life as the alto soloist in the angel quartet. In the summer of 2017 Ms. Dixon sang the role of Popova in William Walton’s The Bear with the Merola Opera Program. There she also covered the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and ended her summer season on the War Memorial Opera House stage singing an aria from Massent’s Cendrillon. Ms. Dixon’s 16-17 season included her debut with Michigan Opera Theater in Copland’s The Tender Land as Mrs. Splinters. In concert, Ms. Dixon appeared on the Hill Auditorium stage as mezzo-soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and with the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club in Schubert’s Ständchen . She also sang the title role in a concert performance of Pucell’s Dido and Aeneas . In the same year, the Gerda Lissner Foundation awarded her the Encouragement Award for their Song / Lieder Competition in New York. In past seasons, Ms. Dixon was engaged as a young artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera where she made her professional debut as Flora in Verdi’s La traviata . Her inaugural summer at the Merola Opera Program had her singing La Ciesca in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Mrs. Nolan in Menotti’s The Medium . There, she and the esteemed collaborator Martin Katz presented a recital of song and arias. Ms. Dixon holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University. Samuel Hasselhorn , baritone S. J. Ipsen Fellowship, Mason Foundation Fellowship German baritone Samuel Hasselhorn is an ensemble member at the Vienna State Opera where he sings roles such as Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), or Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia). He is prizewinner of several competitions (Queen Elisabeth Competition, Das Lied, Young Concert Artists Auditions, Schubert Competition, Wigmore Hall Competition, Hugo Wolf Competition) and released two Lieder CDs with the label GWK Records. Mr. Hasselhorn sang concerts and recitals at Wigmore Hall, Munich Philharmonie, Moscow Concert Hall, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, DeSingel Antwerp, Bozar Brussels, Royal Festival Hall London, Theater an der Wien, and other venues. His musical partners for recitals are Malcolm Martineau, Graham Johnson, and Justus Zeyen. Future plans include an all Schumann disc with the label Harmonia Mundi which will be released in February 2019. He studied in Hannover, Germany and Paris, France. Christine Lyons , soprano Oyama Charitable Fellowship Christine Lyons, soprano, has been praised as “especially moving” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, called a “revelation” by Gay City News, and hailed a “true virtuosa” by Broadway World. This season, she sings the title role in Norma with Winter Opera Saint Louis, joins the Kennedy Center for The Me I Want to Sing with selections from Il Trovatore and Tosca, sings Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate with the Queens Symphony Orchestra and with the Spectrum Symphony of NY, and is presented in recital with Thomas Muraco by the Art Song Preservation Society of New York. In the summer, she sings title role in Bellini’s La Straniera with Teatro Nuovo at Lincoln Center. Recent roles include Amenaide, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Micaëla, Adina and Giulietta. Ms. Lyons earned a Master of Music from Peabody Institute, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, and completed further studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Siena Miller , mezzo-soprano Howard A. Stotler Fellowship German American mezzo- soprano, Siena Licht Miller, is quickly making a name for herself in both the opera and concert worlds. As an Emerging Artist with Opera Philadelphia, Siena made her professional debut as Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte and returned this season in two recitals as a part of their O18 Festival. Most recently with the company, her performance as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream garnered critical acclaim. This past summer, Siena was a member of Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Program, covering Suzuki in Madame Butterfly and Kitty in Doctor Atomic, as well as singing scenes from Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Highlights for the 2018⁄2019 season included the title role in Dido and Aeneas, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Oregon Symphony, and a recital with the Carnegie Hall Citywide Concert Series. She has worked with master artists such as Renée Fleming, Robert Spano, Placido Domingo and Graham Johnson. Recent appearances with the New York City Ballet and the avant-garde Del Sol String Quartet have fostered her love of cross-discipline collaboration. Ms. Miller is an alumna of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Chautauqua Institute, and the Aspen Music Festival. In September 2019, she will co-star in a world premiere by Philip Venables, Denis and Katya, at Opera Philadelphia. Siena began her musical career at a young age as a violinist, while being raised in Portland, Oregon. RSMI SINGERS FELLOWS