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CONTACT:  Mary Anthony

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Nov. 4, 2008

Second Annual Rosalind Phillips Vocal Excellence Award Recital Competition to be Held at Trinity University

SAN ANTONIO – The second annual Rosalind Phillips Vocal Excellence Recital Competition will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, in Trinity University’s 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 $18,500 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 $800 and a performance with the Trinity Symphony Orchestra. The finalists are:

Rebecca Musser, soprano, is a senior majoring in drama and music.  She is involved in both musical theater and opera at Trinity and off-campus with the San Antonio Opera.

Randy Scholz, baritone, is a senior majoring in drama and business administration.  He is a Baker Duncan scholar, sings in the Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers, and acts in main stage plays in the theater.

David Short, tenor, is a junior majoring in music education, choral emphasis.  He is a member of the Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers as well as Trinity’s male a cappella group, the Trinitones.

Elizabeth Stevenson, soprano, is a junior majoring in business administration and music.  She has been a member of the Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers and performed as the soprano soloist in the 2008 Choral Union performance of Mozart’s Requiem.

Eric Thomson, tenor, is a senior majoring in music.  He is a member of the Trinity Choir and Chamber Singers, a tenor soloist for the Mozart’s Requiem in May 2008, and performs with both the San Antonio Chamber Choir and the San Antonio Opera.

Professor 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 Trinity’s music department at 210-999-8212.

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