THIS IS A PAST EVENT.
Student singers, instrumentalists and pianists perform for Will Crutchfield.
WILL CRUTCHFIELD RESIDENCY
Guest Artist Residency
Wake Forest University Department of Music welcomes the acclaimed conductor, musicologist and author for a two-day residency that includes visits to classes, rehearsals and an interactive session with music, theatre, journalism and entrepreneurship students and faculty. The public is invited to a master class and lecture (see below). After spending his teens as a vocal coach and rehearsal accompanist, Will Crutchfield made his name as in the mid-1980s as the youngest music critic in the history of The New York Times. Since the mid-1990s he has held conducting posts with the Opera de Colombia (Bogotá) and the Polish National Opera (Warsaw), and has made guest appearances with many theaters, including the Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro), the Canadian Opera Company, the Washington National Opera, and the Minnesota Opera among others. Will Crutchfield is the Director of Opera for the Caramoor International Music Festival, where he has conducted over 25 titles by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and soloists including Lawrence Brownlee, Vivica Genaux, Ewa Podleś, Sumi Jo, Barry Banks, John Osborn, and Angela Meade. The Financial Times has praised him for “a fine balance of bravado, intensity, sensitivity and scholarly savoir-faire,” in cycles of standard repertory classics as well as pioneering revivals of less familiar works. In addition to over 1500 articles and reviews for The New York Times, Will Crutchfield has written numerous articles for Opera News, The New Yorker, The Musical Times, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and others. He is is currently completing a book on historical performance practice in Italian opera.
Sponsored by IPLACe and the Department of Music.
Monday, February 8, 2016 at 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Scales Fine Arts Center, Brendle Recital Hall
1775 Wake Forest Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Free and Open to the Public.
Kris Frantz
(336) 758-5026
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