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"Cincinnati: a city with seven hills like Rome." Carolyn is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She began her vocal studies at 16, in the Preparatory Division of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Miss Jeannine Philippe who was a university faculty member. Entering the University on a Corbett Scholarship she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in voice, and holds her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School. She has received scholarships and grants from the Corbett Foundation, the Three Arts Fund of Cincinnati, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the Norman Treigle Memorial Fund, The Abyssinian Baptist Church and the Ohio Baptist Convention. She was the Roland Hayes Fellowship recipient at the Tanglewood/Berkshire Music Center, first place winner in the Studio Club of New York Voice competition, a winner of the San Francisco Opera New York Regional Auditions, a winner of the Pro Musicis Foundation International Award and a Music for the World Foundation artist grant recipient. She is a Fulbright Scholar. "One day at a time." Success arrived in small but steady increments. After moving to New York and completing her studies at The Juilliard School, she found engagements with several organizations: the New York Grand Opera as Cuniza in Oberto, the first opera of their seven year Verdi Festival; the Bronx Arts Ensemble as vocalist for the chamber music version of El Amor Brujo; the Oratorio Society; the Longar Ebony Ensemble; the Collegiate Chorale in La Fiamma by Resphigi; with Opera Ebony in their productions of The Medium, Sojourner by Valerie Capers, Frederick Douglass by Dorothy Rudd Moore, and The Marriage of Figaro; with the American Composer's Orchestra; and as vocal soloist in two ballets for Dance Theatre of Harlem, Songs of Mahler Ballet and Prince Igor, performing with the company, as featured singer at the Lincoln Center and City Center of New York as well as The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Eventually she found her way to Europe and it is there that she made the most important strides in repertoire and experience. "The tide will turn." Her first role was Maddelena in Rigoletto in Limoges, France. In 1996 in Milan, she was hired after an audition in a pianist's living room for Carmen, and made her Italian debut in Palermo that Spring. Following those performances she was offered many other opportunities in Italy: Samson et Dalila in Turin, Carmen at L'Arena di Verona. Her debut as Amneris coincided with the historic 1998 reopening of Teatro Massimo in Palermo. La Favorite by Donizetti in the original French at the Rome Opera; Princess Eboli in Don Carlo for her debut in Bologna; and a return to L'Arena di Verona singing Amneris in Aida. Eventually she would sing in just about every major theater in Italy. Other theaters included Monte Carlo singing the role of Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda; the Teatro Real in Madrid in a live television broadcast of Samson et Dalila with Placido Domingo; the Liceu of Barcelona; the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Marseille; Glasgow; Edinburgh, Bilbao; Sao Paolo, Brazil; and Seoul, Korea. Her concert and recital repertoire is diverse. It includes solo and chamber works by Mahler, Ravel, Falla, Brahms and others. She has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniele Gatti, c. during the London Proms 2001 as alto soloist in the Verdi Requiem in Albert Hall;with the Detroit Symphony, Dr. Leslie Dunner, conductor; the Minnesota Orchestra; and with the Spoleto Festival in Italy singing Mahler's 2nd Symphony. She has commissioned works by American composers Tania Leon, To and fro, and Earl Stewart, Amina, using Native American and English, and Swahili texts respectively, for a special concert of contemporary music sponsored by the ISCM of New York in collaboration with pianist Eliza Garth. Carolyn has performed live on the London Olivier Awards which was broadcast throughout Europe, the Evening Standard Awards broadcast on the BBC-TV network, in concert on WNYC-FM “Around New York” and WQXR radio stations in New York. She has presented recitals in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, Cincinnati, Prague, Rome, Venice, Bermuda, Guadeloupe, Paris and Nairobi, Kenya. She looks forward to presenting more concerts and recitals in the future. |
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