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The Friday Morning Music Club
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2007 Washington International Competition for Singers
WINNERS
Asian-American baritone Eugene Chan is becoming one of today's most sought-after vocalists. A Los Angeles critic hailed his performance "Stealing the act is Eugene Chan, a charming, overzealous bachelor with an intense, expressive voice and face" while a San Francisco critic acclaimed "Chan held the audience captive with the smoothness of his operatic voice, enunciation and sure interpretation."
Mr. Chan began 2007 as a soloist for the Marilyn Horne Foundation at Carnegie Hall. He made his professional debut with Sacramento Opera in 2005 at the age of 21. His operatic roles include the title role in Don Giovanni, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Schaunard (La Bohéme), Ottone (L'Incoronazione di Poppea), and both Morales and Dancaïre (Carmen). An avid recitalist, he has been featured with orchestra in Brahms' A German Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Copland's Old American Songs, Vaughn Williams' Songs of Travel, Fauré's Requiem, and the West Coast Premiere of Rene Clausen's Memorial.
He has received prizes in numerous competitions, scholarships, and awards, most notably: 2nd Place in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Western Region Finals and Pacific Regional Finalist, 2nd Place in the NATS Artist Award Cal-Western Regional Finals, an Encouragement Award in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, a Special Judges Award in the Sullivan Foundation Competition, a national finalist in the Liederkranz and Houston Opera's Eleanor McCollum Competitions, and an international semi-finalist in the Young Concert Artists International Competition, and the Washington D.C. International Competition.
A native of California, Mr. Chan recently completed a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance at Sacramento State University. He works with many of the finest teachers, coaches, directors, and conductors: Marilyn Horne, Warren Jones, John Churchwell, Sheri Greenawald, Mark Morash, Nico Castel, Marcie Stapp, Robin Fisher, Joseph Wiggett, Andonia Cakouros, Sherry Berjeron-Oliver, and Timm Rolek. In addition to his operatic interests, Mr. Chan firmly believes in the study and performance of art song and chamber music repertoire.
Upcoming engagements include both Morales and Dancaïre in San Francisco Opera Center's production of Carmen, Schaunard in Music Academy of the West's production of La Bohème, and a young artist residency with Seattle Opera.
Emily Hindrichs, soprano, is a student of James McDonald at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Hindrichs recently returned from the International Bachakademie's BACHWOCHE:Johannespassion at the invitation of Helmuth Rilling. Active in the performance of new music, Hindrichs was a guest artist of the University of Louisville's New Music Festival and made her Jordan Hall debut with the New England Conservatory's Contemporary Ensemble in November, singing Joseph Schwantner's Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro. Recent stage credits include Norina in Don Pasquale, Therese in The Breasts of Tiresias, Gilda in Rigoletto and Amy in the New England Premiere of Marc Adamo's Little Women. She will perform Poulenc's La Voix Humaine in March and return to Jordan Hall in April to perform Earl Kim's Now and Then under the direction of John Heiss. She joins the young artist program of Seattle Opera in October as the title character in Donizetti's Rita, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, and Feu/Princesse/Rossignol in L'enfant et les sortilèges.
Sidney Outlaw, 2nd Prizewinner of the 2006 Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition, has made great strides for a young budding baritone and possesses great potential to seize a world-class vocal career. Recently being lauded for his performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mr. Outlaw will return to the Music Academy of the West this summer for continued study with Ms. Marilyn Horne and their elite faculty. Mr. Outlaw has completed studies with Levone Tobin-Scott at the University of North Carolina; Greensboro and will complete his graduate studies with W. Stephen Smith at the The Juilliard School. He is an alumni of young artist programs such as Opera North and Julliard Opera Center. His performances have been captured in works such as Cosi fan tutte, Falstaff, Amahl and the Night Visitors, La Traviata, La Boheme, Little Woman, Le Nozze di Figaro, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Die Zauberflöte, Te Deum by A. Bruckner, and the Requiems of Brahms, Fauré, Mozart, Verdi with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Being a former student of the great conductor, Dr. Andre Thomas, Mr. Outlaw has also completed intensive studies on conducting and the interpretation of the Negro Spiritual.
Lucia Cervoni, Mezzo-soprano from Canada holds a Bachelor of Music with honors in Vocal Performance from the University of Western Ontario. Her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where she had the opportunity to perform a number of different roles, including Dejanira in Mirandolina, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti. She spent a portion of 2004 in Chiari and Brescia, Italy as a part of the International Institute of Vocal Arts where she portrayed Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice and Marianna in Il Signor Bruschino. Ms. Cervoni has also competed and was a finalist in many prestigious vocal competitions. These include: The Licia Albanese Competition, The Altamura/Caruso Competition and The George London Vocal Competition. For the past two summers Ms. Cervoni has been a part of Santa Fe Opera's Young Artist Program. This past summer she had the privilege of playing the Third Lady in The Magic Flute. In the fall of 2006 Lucia returned to the Young Artist Program with Seattle Opera, where she sang Carmen in Peter Brook's The Tragedy of Carmen last year she performed the role of Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw. Lucia returns to Santa Fe Opera this spring to participate in their Spring Tour premiering the new work, The Trinity.
Evan Rainey Bennett recently completed a residency as a Studio Artist with Utah Opera where he was seen as Der Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Don Pasquale. This season, in addition to Turnage's Greek with Stony Brook Opera, includes Il Signor Bruschino with Gotham Chamber Opera, as well as West Side Story with Opera Genova.
Evan's 2005-2006 roles include Geronimo in Il Matrimonio Segreto and The Recorder of Norwich in Gloriana with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Gianni Schicchi and the Gendarme in Les Mamelles de Terisias with the Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi di Milano.
At Yale Opera, Evan sang Figaro, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and John Proctor in The Crucible. On the concert stage he has been seen at the Sundance Festival Pops concert, as well as performances with Utah Symphony, Manchester Symphony, and New Haven Symphony. Evan was also seen as Sam in the Italian premiere of Gershwin's Blue Monday with the orchestra Verdi.
Evan is a 2006 winner of the Bel Canto Scholarship Foundation Competition, and was also recently recognized by Joy in Singing as a recitalist. Other awards include New England Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as well as career grants from the MacAllister Foundation, and the Elardo International Opera Competition. Originally from Georgia, Evan holds both a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from Yale University as well as a Bachelor of Music from Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Museop Kim, Baritone, is currently a resident artist at the Juilliard Opera Center, where he studies with W. Stephen Smith. A native of Inchon, Korea, he received his bachelor of music degree from Seoul National University, where he studied with Sung-Gil Kim and made his operatic debut as Kaspar in the Korean premiere of Der Freischuetz. Upon moving to New York from Korea, he began studies at Manhattan School of Music, where he received his Master of Music degree.
At Manhattan School of Music, he sang the role of the Count in the Marriage of Figaro in the 2001 Opera Scenes Program and Escamillo and Morales in the production of Carmen. In the school’s 2002 main stage opera production, he sang Graf in Der Wildschuetz. During summer of 2002, he sang Ford in Falstaff at the Intermezzo Young Artist Program in Connecticut. Mr. Kim appeared in the School’s 2002 fall Opera Scenes Program as Marcello in La Boheme and in 2003 main stage production as Claudio in Beatrice et Benedict. Under the direction of Kenneth Merrill, he sang Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte and title role in Don Giovanni. And he appeared on the Philadelphia premier of Edgar as Frank in the production of Academy of Vocal Arts.
At the Juilliard, he performed Simeon from L’Enfant prodigue, Reporter from the world premiere of Miss Lonelyhearts, and Jupiter from Offenbach’s Orphee aux Enfer. Other performances include the role of Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at Aspen Music festival in 2005. Last summer, he joined the Filene Young Artist of the Wolf Trap Opera Company to sing Laimbaud from Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, Capulet in the concert staging of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette with National Symphony Orchestra, and Antonio from Le Nozze di Figaro.
He has won several awards throughout Europe as well as the U.S. including Liederkranz Foundation Competition, Aspen Concerto Competition, Leoppldschlosskron Singing Competition in Salzburg, Austria, Metropolitan Opera National Council, New York District, Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, and FGO singing competition. Next fall he will appear on the stage of New York City Opera as Schaunard in La Boheme, Dancairo in Carmen and Sciarrone in Tosca, after spending summer at Wolf Trap singing Escamillo in Carmen and Voltore from Musto’s Volpone.
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