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Greetings from Evelyln Lear and Thomas Stewart
We both thank you for reading this first issue of The Wagner Singer. We hope it will provide you with information about many of
the promising young people the Emerging Singers Program is helping. It is our goal to do all we can to encourage and develop
American singers who have genuine potential for careers singing the music of Richard Wagner --- through auditions, rehearsals,
public concerts, and follow-on coaching, financial and other assistance.
The Emerging Singers Program is focused on artists who have already demonstrated both the talent, and perhaps more importantly,
the commitment over time to careers in opera. Also, the Program is not focused on singers who are already being hired by major
opera houses on a regular basis, but on singers who, with the Program's help, can achieve that level of success. Of course, the
Program is also intended to provide for the study and enjoyment of Wagner's art.
We are delighted by our partnership in this endeavor with the Wagner Society of Washington, DC and we are encouraged by your
interest and support.
Betty Bullock (Piano) is a favorite of the singers at the German Embassy concerts where she has sensitively
accompanied them as a talented and experienced Wagner pianist.. She has been a member of the
music staff at the Washington National Opera since 1982. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory
and UNC-Chapel Hill. She studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at the Hochschule für Musik,
in Munich on a German Government grant. She is a former faculty member, Duke University and Oberlin
Conservatory, and a winner of a Franz Schubert Prize for Accompanists, Baden bei Wien, Austria. She is a
faculty member at American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and since 1997, a faculty member
of the University of Miami Summer Vocal Institute in Salzburg, Austria.
John Edward Niles is the Program Director of the Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Program. He is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Wagner Society of Washington, DC and the Director of the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia ((OTNV).
The 9th Emerging Singers Concert (October 8, 2004)
at the German Embassy, Washington, DC
The performers accept the applause, left to right: Jason Switzer, Mathew Lepold,
David Smith, Brian Carter, Roxanne Rowedder and Betty Bullock with Evelyn Lear,
Thomas Stewart and John Edward Niles.
Evelyn Lear and Thomas
Stewart review the program
with the singers and Betty
Bullock (back to camera) and
John Edward Niles in
background.
The rehearsals
Evelyn Lear reviews the scores
with Roxanne Rowedder and
Jason Switzer.