FVS alum John Andrew Fernandez wins 2009 Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield Competition.
He also performed Silvio in Pagliacci with Knoxville Opera.
Takesha Meshe Kizart
wins Concorso Internazionale Voci Verdiane and Concurso Internacional de Canto Montserrat Caballé.
Soprano Kiera Duffy performed with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Soprano Alison Hicks performed the Queen of the Night in Magic Flute in Brevard in 2008,
and performs Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte with the Lyric Studio of Weimar in 2009.
Two
of the ten 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions finalists are Florence Voice Seminar alums.
Three of five finalists at the 2007 Greenfield Competition at the Philadelphia Orchestra were Florence Voice
Seminar alums. The competition was won by FVS alum Disella Larusdottir.
Florence Voice
Seminar Alum Amanda Moody wins Philadelphia Orchestra Young Artists Voice Competition and is with the Young Artist
Program at Arizona Opera.
Florence Voice Seminar Alum Kiera Duffy performed
with James Levine at Tanglewood in July 2007.
" Rose,
has the flightiest music, and Kiera Duffy sang it vituosically" Allan Kozinn, New York
Times
Florence Voice Seminar Alum Allen Pinkney Jr performed the role of Don Jose in Carmen at Brevard(August 2006) and is an apprentice with Sarasota Opera in 2007.
Disella
Larusdottir was a winner in the Zachary Competition. She won the Astral Artistic Services Auditions and will make
her Philadelphia recital debut.
Soprano Dalma Boronkai performed Gilda in Rigoletto with New Opera Festival di Roma
Elisa Vilbergsdottir won second place in the Wagnerian Division of the Liederkranz competition
Takesha Kizart
was the winner of The Classical Singer Young Artists Competition and one of the winners in the general opera division of
the Liederkranz competition.
