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Jamal Michael Moore 2010-2012 recipient Bass-Baritone Jamal Moore is from
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Julia Allyson Bullock 2007-2009 recipient Soprano and native to St. Louis, Julia Allyson Bullock graduated from John Burroughs High School in 2005 where she was actively involved in drama, dance, the fine arts and musical theater. She participated in the Artists in Training (AIT) program with Opera Theater of St. Louis (2003-05), leaving the program receiving the Marielle Huber Award. Accepted to Eastman School of Music with a Howard Hanson Scholarship, among others, she is currently a junior and studies with Carol Webber. At Eastman, she is a member in the Eastman Chorale. Upon joining Actor’s Equity, she has returned home in the summers to be in the MUNY’s productions of Beauty and the Beast (2005), Singin’ in the Rain (2005), and Oklahoma (2007). Her favorite roles include Eliza (My Fair Lady), Scarecrow (The Wizard of Oz), and Laurey (Oklahoma). Learn more about Julia at her website:
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Jason Holmes 2006-2007 recipient Originally from Ridgeway, VA, Jason Holmes, baritone was a senior at
the Eastman School of Music, where he was a double major in music
education and vocal performance. Jason studied voice with Dr. Constance
Haas. He has performed in recital, opera, and oratorio. In addition to
singing and accompanying, Jason has appeared as conductor with the Eastman
Women’s Chorus and in the annual Messiah Sing, sponsored by the Eastman
student chapter of the American Choral Director’s Association. Jason was
also an active musician in Rochester outside the Eastman community. He was
a church soloist and pianist, has been involved in community theatre, and
has been choral rehearsal accompanist and a chorus member for the Mercury
Opera Rochester. Also with Mercury Opera Rochester, he performed his first
operatic role, in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. For the 2006-2007 season, he
was the Artistic Director Intern for the Amadeus
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Carl Franklin DuPont Jr. 2004-2005 & 2005-2006 recipient A native of Daytona Beach Florida, Carl was a senior in the studio of Mr. Robert Swensen. As a member of Eastman Opera Theater Carl performed as the Narrator in that season’s East and West, Elder McClean in Susannah, and he debuted as Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd. As a concert artist he was engaged by the Bel Canto Singers to sing the bass solo in Handel’s Messiah in his native town, sang the bass solo in Christ lad in Todesbanden in Kilbourn hall, and made his concert debut as a freshman singing the bass solo to Schubert’s Mass in G with the Eastman Philharmonia.
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Jennifer Daise 2003-2004 recipient Jennifer Daise, soprano, is was a senior at the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Rita Shane. She has performed as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music and as a principal soloist in Godspell. During the summer of 2000, Jennifer took part in Operafest di Roma in Rome, Italy, where she sang in the chorus for Mozart's The Magic Flute and sang in recitals in the city. While at Eastman she was a soloist for the Eastman Chorale and performed the roles of Euridice in Offenbach' s Orpheus in the Underworld and The Female Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia for the Eastman Opera Theater'.s opera scenes. She was the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Brockport Symphony Orchestra and the Cathedral Choir School.
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Christina Gill 2002-2003 recipient Mezzo soprano, Christina Gill, was a Rochester native, and was a senior at the Eastman School of Music, where she studied voice with Robert McIver. She was been seen in operas, oratorios, and in recital throughout her Eastman career, Ms. Gill was very grateful to have received the William Warfield Scholarship.
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