 Carmen Balthrop
Professor, Soprano
Phone: 301-405-5496
B.M., University of Maryland; M.M., Catholic University
Carmen Balthrop made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. With a repertoire ranging from Baroque opera and song to contemporary literature, she has performed leading roles with some of the world's major opera companies and symphony orchestras, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington Opera, Canadian Opera, Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the National Symphony.
While her international appearances have taken her to concert halls in Austria, Amsterdam, the Bahamas, China, Mexico and Russia, in the United States Ms. Balthrop has performed recitals in the White House, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. On Christmas Day (2000) NPR chose to air the live performance of her Christmas art song recital which was performed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Ms. Balthrop's discography, found on the Deutsche Grammophon, Elan, New World, and Fonit Cetra labels, includes the title roles of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, John Knowles Paine's Mass and Leslie Burrs Vanqui. Ms. Balthrop is scheduled to release her CD entitled Art and Tradition of Christmas in the fall of 2003.
 Dominic Cossa
Professor, Baritone
Phone: 301-405-5525
B.S., University of Scranton; M.A., University of Detroit
Mr. Cossa has sung as leading baritone with the Metropolitan, the New York City, and the San Francisco Opera Companies, as well as the opera companies of Washington, Houston, Montreal, Vancouver and Philadelphia. His wide variety of roles include Germont in La Traviata, Zurga in The Pearlfishers, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Pierrot in Die tote Stadt, and Yeletsky in Pique Dame.
He has concertized at London's Albert Hall, and has sung operatic performances at Strasbourgh's Opera du Rhin, Milan's Teatro Nuovo, Florence's Teatro della Pergola, and Teatro Bellini in Catania, Sicily. In addition to performing a repertoire of more than fifty operas, he has appeared in recital and in concert with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, and the Israel Philharmonic. He has worked with eminent conductors such as Ozawa, Bernstein, and Solti. Mr. Cossa has toured the Far East extensively with concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taiwan, Singapore, and Kuala Lampur.
Mr. Cossa's recording credits include complete operas with Beverly Sills (Julius Caesar: RCA), Joan Sutherland (Les Huguenots: London), and Luciano Pavarotti (Elixir of Love: London). He has also recorded When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd with the Boston Symphony for New World Records. He was chosen by Gian Carlo Menotti to appear in two premiers, The Hero in which he sang the title role and Tamu-Tamu in Spoleto, Italy.
Mr. Cossa has taught for many years in Salzburg, Austria for the Miami Summer Program. He is now associated with the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Alaska.
 Linda Mabbs
Professor, Soprano
Phone: 301-405-5507
B.M., M.M. Northwestern University
Internationally recognized for her interpretation of Mahler and Strauss, Linda Mabbs has sung with many of the worlds leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica de Bilbao, Orchestre Bayonne, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Saint Louis, New York, Washington, Baltimore, Cleveland, Miami, Houston, San Antonio, Vancouver and Minnesota; collaborating with such esteemed conductors as Riccardo Chailly, Sir Neville Marriner, Neeme Jërvi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sir Georg Solti, David Robertson, Robert Shaw, Claus Peter Flor, Franz Welzer-Möst, Andrew Litton, Günter Herbig, and Leonard Slatkin among many others. She has presented recitals in some of the finest venues throughout the world singing a wide range of repertoire but with special emphasis on American and British Song. Robert Hanson composed his Songs of America for her and while in England, Sir Peter Pears asked her to give the American premiere of Britten’s Cabaret Songs. Her CD recording with Delores Ziegler of these and other Britten songs will be released later this year.
In recent seasons Ms. Mabbs has sung the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with the New York City Opera and again with Opera Carolina. The Washington Post cited her 1997 world premiere recording of Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night on Koch International as “the most brilliant opera recording of the year." Her chamber music performances have included appearances with the Guarneri String Quartet, Tafelmusik, the Rembrandt Chamber Players, The 21st Century Consort, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival in England, Ravinia, Marlborough, Chautauqua, Grant Park and Berkshire Choral festivals in America as well as numerous appearances at the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria.
Named a Distinguished Scholar/Teacher by the University of Maryland in 2000, Professor Mabbs has taught master classes around the world. Her students have been heard in many of the greatest opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Berlin Statsoper and Covent Garden. She is the recipient of the National Opera Institute Achievement Award, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund, The Maryland Arts Council, and the Creative and Performing Arts Board and Graduate Research Board of the University of Maryland.
 Martha Randall
Lecturer, Soprano
Phone: 301-405-5497
B.M., M.M., University of Kansas, Fulbright Scholar
Soprano Martha Randall teaches voice and voice pedagogy at the University of Maryland School of Music where she has established a mobile pedagogy lab for acoustic analysis of the voice. She received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Kansas and continued study in Munich on a Fulbright Scholarship. She has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall, and the Phillips Gallery, and performed with the National Symphony, The Washington Bach Consort, Kansas City Philharmonic, Washington Civic Opera, and Opera Theater of Northern Virginia.
Ms. Randall is currently Past President of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), having completed her term as President in July of 2008. She will be Director of the NATS Intern Program in 2009 and 2010. She has also served as National Vice President for Membership, Chapter President, District Governor, and Regional Governor. She was a member of the Pedagogy Committee for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) for four years. At the 2000 NATS Convention, she presented "Pedagogy: Low Tech, High Creativity," in 2003 was a panelist at the NATS Winter Workshop, in 2004, she was a master teacher for the Westminster Choir College of Rider University Master Teacher and Singers, a master teacher for the NATS Intern Program in 2007, and has presented workshops in classical voice for the Voice Foundation in 2005, 2006, and 2008.
Ms. Randall was awarded the Rosa Ponselle "Teacher of the Year 2000" distinction by the Rosa Ponselle Foundation, and in 2002 she was nominated by her students for the University of Maryland "Outstanding Faculty of the Year" award. Recent & current students include a Fulbright Scholar, Gold, Silver and Bronze Medallion winners in the Ponselle Competition, 3rd prize in the Inter-Atlantic Music Foundation's International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), and winners in the Vocal Arts 2003-2004 Discovery Series. She has had students at Glimmerglass, Central City, and on scholarship in Salzburg through the University of Miami.
Ms. Randall is faculty advisor for Mu Phi Epsilon and advisor to undergraduate Voice students. She is an active adjudicator and clinician, specializing in vocal pedagogy and vocal health.
 Gran Wilson
Lecturer, Tenor & Opera Rep
B.M., Samford University; M.M., Indiana University–Bloomington
Gran Wilson, a native of Bessemer, Alabama, has distinguished himself as an intepreter of the bel canto repertoire with a performing career spanning three decades and four continents. He has sung with companies such as the New York City Opera, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Australian Opera, Oper Frankfort, Netherlands Opera, Vlaamse Oper, Teatro di San Carlo Lisboa, Opera de Nice, St. Paul Symphony, Edinburgh Festival, Spoletto Festival, and Mostly Mozart Festival.
Mr. Wilson can be seen on Kultur Video as Tamino in the Australian Opera's Magic Flute conducted by Richard Bonynge. A best-seller in Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Company's telecast was a nominee for the Australian Emmys. He has also been seen in televised broadcasts throughout Europe. In the U.S., Mr. Wilson has appeared on "Live from Lincoln Center" in Anna Bolena with Dame Joan Sutherland, and on "CBS with Charles Kuralt" as the Duke of Mantua in Texas Opera Theater's Rigoletto.
On radio, Mr. Wilson has been heard on NPR affiliates with The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Seattle Opera, Miami Opera, St. Louis Opera, Central City Opera, Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Richmond Symphony. In 1991 Mr. Wilson was chosen by composer Ned Rorem as the tenor in his premiere of "Swords and Plowshares" heard on live broadcasts of The Boston Symphony. His recording of Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite with Gerard Schwartz and the Seattle Symphony is on the Delos Label.
Locally, Mr. Wilson has appeared with the Washington National Opera, Baltimore Opera, Opera Vivente, Washington Lyric Opera, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, and the Maryland Opera Studio. Mr. Wilson maintains an active performing schedule throughout the United States. He resides in Baltimore where he is also on the voice faculty of Towson University.
 Delores Ziegler
Associate Professor, Mezzo-soprano
Phone: 301-405-5511
B.M., Maryville College; M.M., University of Tennessee
American mezzo-soprano Delores Ziegler has been heralded as "the mezzo we have been waiting for" by Martin Bernheimer in the Los Angeles Times. Her career takes her to every major theater in the world and into collaboration with the great directors and conductors of our time. Many of these extraordinary performances have been recorded and released as audio recordings and on video and film.
With a repertoire that extends from bel canto to verismo, Ms. Ziegler has appeared in the world's greatest opera houses. At the Vienna Staatsoper, she made a debut as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, returned for Idamante in a new production of Idomeneo, for Dorabella in a new Cosi fan tutte and for Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier. At Teatro alla Scala she has opened the season as Idamante in a new production of Idomeneo, as well as having appeared as Dorabella, Romeo in I Capuleti e I Montecchi and Meg Page in a new production of Falstaff. She opened the prestigious Salzburg Festival as Sextus in a new staging of La Clemenza di Tito. At the Glyndebourne Festival she was heard as Dorabella and at the Bastille in Paris she sang Cherubino and Idamante.
Highlights of her many appearances in Germany include the Composer in a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos in Munich, Marguerite in a new staging of La Damnation de Faust in Hamburg and Salieri's Falstaff in a new production by Cologne. Other European appearances have included the Florence May Festival, where she sang Idomeneo, Octavian and Dulcinée in Massenet's Don Quixotte, Athens Festival for her first Gluck's Orfeo and Dresden for a rarity, Bertoni's Orfeo.
An acclaimed interpreter of bel canto mezzo roles, she has the honor of being the first singer in operatic history to sing Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Bolshoi in Moscow, at the San Francisco Opera and in Japan. In another milestone, Ms. Ziegler is the most recorded Dorabella in operatic history, first on two audio recordings, one with Bernard Haitink on EMI and another on Teldec with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She can also be seen as Dorabella in a videodisc of the La Scala production with Riccardo Muti and in a film of "Cosi" which has been televised throughout Europe, this the last project of director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.In South America she has performed Adalgisa in Norma at the Teatro Colon in Argentina and in Rio de Janeiro. In the United States, this Georgia native has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Octavian, Dorabella, Cherubino and as Siebel. Her initial appearances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago were as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte.
On January 6, 1986, Delores Ziegler was featured in the initial "Pavarotti, Plus! - Live from Lincoln Center" PBS Television Special. Ms. Ziegler had the honor of making her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in the Rossini Stabat Mater with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, this in Maestro Muti's last performance in America as music director of that prestigious orchestra. She has also appeared with orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. With London's BBC Symphony she sang Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder; with Santa Cecilia in Rome the St. John Passion and at Aix-en-Provence and in Venice, the Rossini Stabat Mater. She is a gifted Lieder singer and has appeared in that capacity in such cities as Paris, Florence, Vienna, Cologne and Bonn. In 1992 she made her New York City recital debut in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall Series.
Delores Ziegler has a discography of twenty-one recordings that includes the Mozart Requiem, Mozart's Great Mass and the Mahler Symphony #8 on Telarc with Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra on EMI; the Bach B-minor Mass with Nikolaus Harnoncourt on Teldec; both the Boccherini and the Pergolesi Stabat Maters on Frequenz conducted by Claudio Schimone; and the Mozart Coronation Mass on Deutsche Grammophon with James Levine and the Berlin Philharmonic
 Diba Alvi
Lecturer, Voice
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+1 412 215 9596 B.M. Voice Performance, Minor in Musicoloy, M.M. Opera Theater, Oberlin Conservatory; Specailist Degree, Voice Performance, U. of Michigan; D.M.A. Voice Performance, U. of Maryland Recognized for her beautiful voice and dynamic stage presence, soprano Diba Alvi has received critical acclaim for both her operatic and concert performances. For her debut concert with Pittsburgh Opera in Samuel Ramey and Friends the Pittsburgh Tribune Review said: “From her first note in Musetta’s Waltz from La Bohème, soprano Diba Alvi commanded the stage with stellar vocalism and a sharply dramatic personality…” Operatic engagements have included The Merry Widow and Un Ballo in Maschera with Palm Beach Opera, La Favorita and Les Huguenots with the Opera Orchestra of New York, Orpheus and Euridice, Gianni Schicchi, Die Fledermaus, A View from the Bridge, Summer and Smoke, The Magic Flute, The Impresario, Prima la Musica et poi le Parole and Hansel and Gretel, all with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh. She also appeared in the American bi-coastal premiere of The Ring Saga with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh and Long Beach Opera.
Concert engagements include the Baltimore premiere of Song of the Shulamite with Handel Choir of Baltimore, Poulenc’s Gloria (KY), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Zemlinsky’s Maiblumen blüten überall with Inscape (MD), Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri at the University of Maryland’s Schumann Festival and Argento’s Songs about Spring in the Art of Argento Festival at the University of Maryland, Handel’s Messiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Vivaldi’s Gloria (PA), An Evening with Diba Alvi (TN) and An Evening of Arias, Songs & Duets with (Grammy Award winner) Michele Pertusi at the Pittsburgh Opera.
Dr. Alvi received her degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland. Dr. Alvi teaches at the University of Maryland and the Peabody Institute of Music at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has also served on the faculty of Young Artists of America’s Vocal Program (MD), the Vocal Arts Academy for High School Students (OH) and Opera Theater Summerfest (PA).
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