Performing on Carmina Burana - November 19, 2011
Angela Turner Wilson, soprano
Angela Turner Wilson has garnered critical acclaim and international attention for her poignant and lyrical performances. She performed title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for the first time with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and was immediately re-engaged by the company to return as Leila in Les Pecheurs des Perles. She has also performed to acclaim with the New York City Opera as Norina (which the New York Times described as "acted well and sung with an admirably pure and light soprano, particularly in her upper register.") Lisette in La Rondine and Yum-Yum in The Mikado, The Washington Opera as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the Infanta in Le Cid (as seen on PBS), Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, First Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and Yvette in La Rondine, The Dallas Opera as the Sandman and Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel, New York City Opera, The Dallas Opera and Boston Lyric Opera as Musetta in La Boheme, New York City Opera and Eugene Opera as Yum-Yum in The Mikado, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Portland Opera and Connecticut Opera as Norina in Don Pasquale, Connecticut Opera and Eugene Opera as Rosina, Calgary Opera and Central City Opera as Adele, and Laurie in Oklahoma for the Treasure Coast Opera, Fort Worth Opera as Elvira in L'Italiana in Algeri, and Fresno Grand Opera as Musetta. In addition, she has ben engaged by the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio.
She attracted attention as a finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council 1996 New England Regional auditions, winner of the Central City Young Artist Award in 1995, and as the understudy of Norina in Don Pasquale for the Glimmerglass Opera . She is also a winner of a grant from the Sullivan Foundation and Washington Opera's Artist of the Year for 2000.
On the concert stage, Ms. Wilson has appeared as featured soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Wind Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, Ft. Worth Symphony, Colorado Symphony at the Vail Valley Music Festival, Binghamton Symphony Orchestra, and Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts.
Ms. Wilson has appeared at the Clinton White House as a featured soloist for a state dinner honoring the Prime Minister of Italy.
On film, Ms. Wilson performed Caroline Jefferson in Cosair Productions' Miss Firecracker which starred Holly Hunter, Mary Steenbergen, and Tim Robbins.
San-ky Kim, tenor
Korean-born lyric tenor San-ky Kim received his BA from the Australian National University and his Bachelor of Music from the Canberra Institute of the Arts. He completed his Master of Music degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and received his Professional Studies Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Temple University.
San-ky made his professional debut with the Philadelphia Opera Company and later pursued a fulltime operatic career for more than eight years in Europe, performing in Helsinki, Biel, Bern, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gent, and Prague before settling in Germany. He has performed major operatic roles in countries throughout the world as well as sung in solo, chamber, and oratorio settings.
He has taught in Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the United States, most recently at Lincoln University in Philadelphia where he taught applied voice and directed the opera program. He is fluent in German, French, and Italian in addition to English and his native Korean. San-ky firmly believes that singing, like all other forms of art, is an aesthetic expression of communicative gestures. San-ky and his violinist wife Irina share their newest passion for Argentinean Tango, where musical communicative gestures take on physical aspect.
Jeffrey Snider, baritone
Jeffrey Snider is a native of Buffalo, New York, and studied at both Indiana University and the University of North Texas. Recent concert performances include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Tallahassee, Florida Symphony Orchestra, Hodie by Vaughan Williams with the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, and an operatic concert with the Youth Orchestra of Greater San Antonio.
Recent operatic roles include Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca with The American Center for Puccini Studies, the Count di Luna in Verdi's Il Trovatore in El Paso, Texas, Germont in La Traviata with the Masterworks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana, and Gideon March in Adamo's Little Women with the Fort Worth Opera. In May of 2005 he placed second in Opera New York's inaugural "Chester Ludgin American Verdi Baritone Competition", singing before a panel that included opera stars Placido Domingo, James Morris, and Regina Resnick.
He is the baritone soloist on the Klavier recording of Orff's Carmina Burana with the University of North Texas Wind Symphony and Grand Chorus under the direction of Eugene Corporon. Of this performance J. F. Weber of Fanfare magazine writes, "this is one of the finest…male soloists I have ever heard in this work". He is on the voice faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music.
