Carmel Bach Festival: 1997 Master Class Singers

1997 Carmel Bach Festival
Adams Vocal Master Class

Rear: Louise Fauteux, Barbara Gordon, Virginia Adams, David Gordon, Emily Eyre
Front: Sean Watson, Erin Gray, Gerald Gray (Adams '96), Michiel Schrey

Louise Fauteux - soprano: BMus, Keene State College; MMus, Westminster Choir College; Louise lives in the Princeton, NJ, area but originally hails from Connecticut. In addition to her academic degrees, she has lived and studied in St. Malo, France, and Weimar, Germany. In 1995, while still pursuing her master's degree, Louise made her New York Philharmonic solo debut in Grieg's Peer Gynt under Kurt Masur. She has also sung recently with the famed Singing City Choir in Philadelphia, and in April she took part in a staged production of the St. Matthew Passion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, directed by Jonathan Miller.

Emily Eyre - alto: BA, Birmingham-Southern College; MMus, University of North Carolina; Emily is a Hawaii native now living in New York City where she is a busy soloist in the NYC musical scene, in repertoire spanning three centuries. Her wide range of performing credits ranges from concerts with the Amherst Early Music Festival to a world premiere of Meredith Monk's Atlas at the Houston Grand Opera, a production which also toured Europe. Just before coming to Carmel she soloed in the Bach Magnificat with the Berkshire Bach Society at Tanglewood; and in contemporary music the National Cathedral in Washington, DC and the Spoleto Festival USA.

Michiel Schrey - tenor: BA, BMus, MMus, McGill University; Michiel was born in the Netherlands and raised in Kingston, Ontario. Since completing his Master's degree at McGill in 1995, he has performed with leading orchestras and ensembles in opera and oratorio across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe. Last season he was heard at New York's Glimmerglass Opera and the Opera Comique in Paris.This summer saw his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit in Schubert's Mass in E-flat. Next season Michiel will be travelling to Singapore with Toronto's Opera Atelier, for their touring production of Mozart's Magic Flute.

Sean Watson - baritone: Artist's Diploma, University of Toronto; Sean is from Toronto and lived for a decade in the Middle East, where his father was a music teacher in an international school. Although he comes from a musical family, he originally hoped to pursue a career in broadcast journalism, but after working in a radio station in Lebanon during the 1982 war he decided that music was a much safer field! On returning to Canada, he played guitar before deciding to train classically. He is a winner of 1996 Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyrique International Voice Competition, and thus will take part in a gala concert in September at the Royal Opera in Liege, Belgium.

FACULTY:: Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano; Catherine Robbin, mezzo-soprano; David Gordon, tenor (Master Class Director); Sanford Sylvan, baritone; Daniel Lockert, pianist