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 Elise Jablow is a senior at
McGill University. She made her Opera McGill debut in 2008 in
Dialogues des Carmelites. She has also appeared as soprano soloist
with the McGill Chamber Singers' performance of Dvorak's Mass
in D Major. Ms. Jablow has received honors from the National
Association of Teachers of Singing (Connecticut Chapter) and
the Musical Club of Hartford and is the recipient of the Donalda
Prize and the Bel Canto Institute 2009 Orchestral Performance
Award.
 Joann
Martinson
received her B.A in Music Performance from Minot State University
in 2004. Having been a consecutive top award winner in the annual
National Association of Teachers of Singing competition, she
also placed second in the North Dakota District of the Metropolitan
Opera National Council auditions, receiving the Encouragement
Award in 2003.
Following graduation from Minot State, Ms. Martinson spent three
summers as a Teaching Assistant of Voice at NYU. Her opera debut
was in 2002 with the Western Plains Opera Company as Barbarina
in The Marriage of Figaro. She has also sung Yum-Yum in The Mikado
with Emerald City Opera in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and recently
sang Adele with Western Plains Opera's production of Die Fledermaus.
Other appearances have included Gretel in Hansel und Gretel and
the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. She has also appeared
in numerous oratorios, including Elijah, Messiah and St. John's
Passion. Ms. Martinson is a recipient of the 2009 Bel Canto Institute
Orchestral Performance Award. She is currently a graduate student
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Jane Bakken Klaviter, Bel Canto Institute Founder, Artistic and Executive
Director, is a Prompter and Assistant Conductor with the Metropolitan
Opera. She previously held this position with such prestigious
opera companies as the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Dallas
Opera where she was head of music staff for eight seasons. She
was the prompter for the historic 1982 production of Falstaff
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Giulini conducting, recorded
by Deutsche Grammophon, and has also served as assistant to James
Levine on numerous recordings for Decca, Sony and Deutsche Grammophon.
She has served as a faculty member of the Juilliard and Manhattan
Schools of Music. In addition to her duties with the Metropolitan
Opera, Ms. Klaviter coaches privately and is an active recital
accompanist. She is considered a leading coach of Italian opera
repertoire, due in part to her long association with the late
Maestro Luigi Ricci.
The singers
in this concert are the recipients of the Bel Canto Institute
Orchestral Performance Award, sponsored by the Vermont Philharmonic
and Bel Canto Institute. All the recipients were participants
in the 2008 Bel Canto Institute Summer Program in Florence, Italy.
Bel Canto Institute is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization whose
purpose is to perpetuate, teach and keep alive style and tradition
in 19th and 20th Century Italian opera. These goals are achieved
through a Summer Program and Youth Division Summer Program for
opera singers, students and coaches where they are immersed in
the study of style and tradition by means of performance classes,
private coachings, Italian language classes, lectures, and performances.
The programs are in residence in Florence, Italy. Bel Canto Institute
is dedicated to the memory of the late Maestro Luigi Ricci.
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