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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
CONTACT: Russell Guerrero
Feb. 8, 2008
First Annual Rosalind Phillips Vocal Excellence Award Recital Competition at Trinity University
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SAN ANTONIO – Trinity University will hold its first Rosalind Phillips Vocal Excellence Recital Competition at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. Amy Becker ’90, established a fund last year to honor Miss Phillips, an emerita voice professor at Trinity, and more than $12,000 has been raised. Miss Phillips, now 88, will attend the event to award monetary prizes to the competition winner and first-runner up.
Five of the University’s juniors and seniors will perform and compete for the grand prize of $700. They are:
Susan Yager, senior vocal performance major and Baker Duncan Scholar, has sung in the Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers since her freshman year and most recently, she was the musical director for Trinity’s 2008 Broadway Revue “Murder at the Hotel Broadway.”
Casey Strickland, senior music and psychology double major, will sing “Bereite dich, Zion” from the Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach, “Les gars qui vont a la fete” by Francis Poulenc, and “Where Corals Lie” by Edward Elgar. She is in the Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers.
Randy Scholz, junior majoring in drama and business administration, has been involved in numerous productions with the Trinity Theater and has worked on musicals at the Canterbury Summer Theatre for the past two summers. He is also a member of the Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers.
April Hays, junior music and English double major, is another member of Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers, as well as historian of Mu Phi Epsilon, the professional music fraternity.
Eric Thomson, junior accounting major and music minor and Baker Duncan Scholar, is a tenor in the Trinity Choir and a semi finalist for both the southern Texas Region and TEXOMA Region for National Association of Singing. In addition to his vocal talent, he is also an accomplished French horn player.
Miss Phillips won a four-year Fellowship to the Juilliard Graduate School and attended the Cincinnati Conservatory. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Arthur Jordan Conservatory. She has sung in France and was an acclaimed performer with a background as a concert performer, soloist with symphony orchestras, and in light opera.
For more information, call Professor Diane Persellin at 210-999-7265.
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