The 2009 Carmel Bach Festival Vocal Master Class 

Colleen Hughes
Soprano

Bloomington IN

email: cjhughes1984@gmail.com 

Colleen is well-known to Carmel Bach Festival audiences as a soprano in the Festival Chorale from 2006-2008.

She received a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance in 2006, a Bachelor of Music Education in 2007, and completed her Master of Music in vocal performance in December of 2008, all from Indiana University.

She has studied with Dale Moore and Robert Harrison, and has also participated in master classes with Carol Vaness and Roger Vignoles. At Indiana University Colleen has appeared as the soprano soloist for performances such as Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, Vivaldi’s Gloria, the Bach Magnificat, and Mass in G by both Poulenc and Vaughan Williams, and worked under the batons of Jan Harrington, William Jon Gray, Dale Warland, and Jörg Ritter.

Colleen also spent time in Milan where she studied with Patrizia Zanardi and performed in recital at the Casa di Verdi. In Bloomington, Colleen has sung with Spanish baroque ensemble Fenix de los Ingenios. In December of 2008 she joined the group as a guest solo artist for their series of Christmas Matins celebration concerts, and was a part of the choir this past May for a performance of Vespers to Nuestra Señora Del Pilar by Joseph Ruiz Samaniego.

Colleen has also sung with Apollo’s Voice for the Indianapolis Symphony under the direction of Jan Harrington, Raymond Leppard, and Mario Venzago. This June she joined the Lafayette Bach Chorale Singers as a soloist for Steven Sametz’ The Choir Invisible, directed by William Jon Gray.

Last May Colleen took Third Place in the Gerhard Herz Young Artist’s Competition with the Louisville Bach Society.