KAREN HALL, soprano
Karen was born in Kentucky and educated in Texas at the University of Houston, where she graduated with a B.M. and M.M. in vocal performance. Additional study in operetta was completed at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg [+]KAREN HALL, soprano
Karen was born in Kentucky and educated in Texas at the University of Houston, where she graduated with a B.M. and M.M. in vocal performance. Additional study in operetta was completed at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. She is currently a doctoral student in education at Columbia University Teachers College with graduation expected in 2005.
Ms. Hall has performed in opera, operetta, concert, oratorio, recital, chamber music and music theater throughout the United States, most notably on the PBS special Masterclass, with the Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Civic Light Opera, Hidden Valley Opera, and the Victor Herbert Festival Ensemble in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is a five time Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist and has won awards from the Texas Federation of Music Clubs, the Vocal Arts Foundation in San Francisco and the Eleanor Anderson Lieber Awards, sponsored by Portland Opera.
Ms. Hall has been on the voice faculty at The Crane School of Music/SUNY Potsdam, at St. Lawrence University, Ithaca College, The Boston Conservatory, the Berklee College of Music and New York University. Presently she is on the faculty at East Carolina University where she teaches musical theater voice.
DANIEL LOCKERT, piano
As a soloist or collaborator, Daniel Lockert is equally versatile on the piano, organ and harpsichord. He is a native of San Diego, California, where he began piano studies at the age of five. He also studied organ throughout high school and college. He attended the University of Southern California and obtained an advanced degree in the specialized area of accompanying, studying with Gwendolyn Koldofsky, the pioneer teacher of the field.
Daniel was the only American finalist in the first International Accompanying Competition held in the Netherlands. As an accompanist, he has had an active career accompanying choral groups, singers and instrumentalists throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He has collaborated with singers past and present of the Metropolitan opera, such as Deborah Voigt, as well as current young recitalists, including Christopheren Nomura.
As a coach and teacher, he has been on the staffs and faculties of the Juilliard School, the San Fra
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