Alice Pierce

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Alice Pierce , née Alice Obery (born May 28, 1957 in Lafayette , Indiana , USA ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ), opera director and vocal teacher .

Life

Alice Pierce took ballet , singing and piano lessons as a child . She graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor and Master of Music . She then began a doctoral degree , which she did not finish.

In 1980 and from 1984 to 1986 she worked as a vocal teacher at Indiana University and from 1987 to 1989 as assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington . In this role she moved to the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she taught from 1989 to 1992.

In 1992 she moved to Germany with her family and accepted an engagement at the Staatstheater Cottbus , which she ended in 2002. During this time she sang an average of almost a hundred performances a year in the fields of opera , operetta , musical and concert . Guest performances have taken her to Italy and Poland .

Since 2004, Pierce is as a private teacher of singing at the High School of Saline in Michigan operates. From 2005 to 2011 she taught as an associate professor at Western Michigan University , where she was full professor and opera director in 2011 and 2012, and in the spring semester of 2010 she also taught as a visiting professor at Saginaw Valley State University .

Pierce also works as a concert singer, in oratorios , cantatas , symphonies and masses . Her repertoire includes classical works such as those by Bach , Haydn , Handel , Mozart , Mendelssohn , Beethoven , Mahler , but also modern music literature such as those by Orff or Lloyd Webber .

Alice Pierce is married to the tenor John Pierce . The daughter Melissa is a violinist , the son Nathaniel is a cellist .

repertoire

Opera

Operetta, musical, singspiel

Directorial work

Prizes and awards

  • 1975: Ruth Teal scholarship for outstanding university graduates
  • 1978: 1st place in the Allan Kellar Memorial
  • 1978: Sylvia Hill Award
  • 1981: 1st place in the D'Angelo Vocal Competition
  • 1985: 1st place in the Lucretia Bartenbach Grand Prize
  • 1987: 1st place in the Metropolitan Opera Audition
  • 1987: Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters
  • 1988: 1st place in the Metropolitan Opera Audition

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Minnesota Duluth School of Music.Retrieved February 12, 2014
  2. ↑ Personal information of the artist
  3. ↑ Interview with Ms. Pierce about this production on YouTube accessed on February 13, 2014
  4. ↑ Press release of the winners accessed on February 11, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Pierce, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obery, Alice (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano), opera director and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Lafayette , Indiana , USA