Dr. Sandra Boysen, soprano


Teaching:       

Hochstein School of Music & Dance: Voice Faculty:  Rochester, NY -- 2000-present.
Teach private voice to students in Honors Certificate Program, as well as students in Class Voice and those wishing to study for personal development.  Under my direction, students prepare for college voice major entrance juries, and advanced teen and adult students prepare and present solo recitals. Advanced high school students participate in the Hochstein Honors Certificate Program, preparing for their Senior Honors Solo Recitals. My students are consistent winners in regional and local vocal competitions and scholarship awards, including the Rochester Philharmonic's Young Artist Awards, the SUNY-Geneseo Vocal Scholarship Awards, Monroe County Fair's annual Talent Competition (winners perform at the New York State Fair in Syracuse), and a national performing arts competition in Los Angeles, CA.
·    Served on:  Marketing Committee; Honors Program Admission Criteria Committee
·    Instructor/course designer for The Business of Music, The Business of Singing/Audition Workshop, Class Voice for Adults

Nazareth College: Voice Faculty: Rochester, New York -- 2004-2008.
Taught primary (music major) and secondary voice students on the undergraduate levels in both private lessons and in group voice classes. Students prepared for departmental juries, production auditions, studio classes and recitals. Assisted Department Chair with National Association of Teachers of Singing 2005 Internship Program.

Monroe Community College: Voice Faculty: Rochester, New York -- 2003-present.
Taught private voice to students majoring in music. Students prepared for departmental juries and recitals, as well as production auditions. Teaching arrangements made through Hochstein School of Music & Dance (see above).

National Association of Teachers of Singing -- Internship 2000 Program:  Ithaca College, NY -- June 2000.
Chosen as one of twelve voice teachers selected from a nationwide pool of applicants to receive a NATS internship for 2000.  Taught undergraduate voice students at Ithaca College under supervision of  NATS master teachers Carol Webber, Shirley Emmons, George Shirley, Roy Delp.

Emporia State University School of Music:  Guest Artist Residencies:  Emporia, KS -- Nov. 1999 & Jan. 2001.
Dr. Marie Miller, Chair of ESU's School of Music, collaborated with me in preparing a short-term guest artist residency.  Taught master classes, worked with Opera Workshop, shared comments with the students and instructors, and performed a solo recital, with Dr. Miller as accompanist, incorporating additional ESU faculty as needed.

Rochester Association for the Performing Arts:  Voice Faculty & Vocal Program Director
       
Rochester, NY -- 1997-2002
Taught private voice (ages 11 to adult), music theatre classes for children and for teens; Music Director for 1998 music camp show “From Within”; directed and presented 2001 SHOWCASE, a four-person, fully-staged Broadway-style vocal revue.
Most of my students were active in community theatre, and several students won gold medals in a national talent competition in Los Angeles, CA.

Parkminster Music School:  Voice Faculty:  Rochester, NY -- 1998-2001
Taught members of the community wishing to study for personal development.

St. Bernard's Institute / Rochester Colgate Divinity School: Vocal Instructor:  Rochester, NY -- 2000
Taught private voice students enrolled in the Pastoral Music Certificate Program, sponsored by the Rochester Catholic Diocese. Also contributed in revision of the program's vocal component.

Florida State University School of Music (Graduate Assistantship in Voice)  1985-1986             
Taught undergraduate voice performance majors, as well as non-majors preparing for voice major entrance juries.

Private Studio Voice Instruction:  Tallahassee, FL -- 1996-1997; Pensacola, FL -- 1983
Taught members of the community wishing to study for personal development.


Outreach Programs:  

Mainstreaming in Public School Music Education:  programs on opera, operetta and music theatre (presented to North Florida middle schools and high schools) in Tallahassee, FL during 1992; coordinated by Dr. William Hughes, coordinator and Florida State University music education faculty. My contributions included writing program outline, acting as emcee, choosing  music and coordinating performers for each session.

Mobile Opera Look-In:  interactive programs on opera (presented to South Alabama elementary and middle schools in Mobile, AL, during 1983.) Benton Hess, program coordinator and artistic director of Mobile Opera, Inc.  My contributions included program performance as soloist, instructing  students, and answering questions during and after performances.


Additional Teaching Activities:

Pre-rehearsal sessions in basic music theory and vocal technique for choristers in Pittsford, NY, from 2001 to 2006. Worked with individuals in the adult choir of Christ Episcopal Church in pre-rehearsal sessions to introduce note-reading, key and interval identification, and fundamentals of diaphragmatic breathing and healthy tone production.

Workshop in vocal techniques for choristers in Elmira, NY, in Fall 1999 and Fall 2000.
Worked with the Cantata Singers of Elmira in a workshop designed to focus on correct and comfortable vocal production and breathing techniques.  These workshops were in collaboration with Paul Frolick, Rochester-based pianist and choral conductor.

Pageant coaching, Rochester, NY -- 1999
Coached college women for performances in various scholarship pageants throughout New York state; activities included study of vocal production, song styling, staging.

Pageant coaching, Tallahassee, FL -- 1996-1997
Coached college women for performances in Miss Florida State University scholarship and Miss Florida pageant; activities included study of vocal production, song styling, microphone technique, accompaniment track analysis.

Informational entertainment programs - “The Songs of Richard Rodgers” at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, FL, and in Tallahassee, Florida, 1990. A forty-five minute one-woman program which served as an overview of Richard Rodgers’development and songwriting style from the 1920’s through the 1960’s.   

Performance resumé development and audition technique analysis: Rochester, NY -- 1997- present
Offer sessions to individuals in developing and polishing resumes and biographies for performance purposes, and work with individuals in developing a polished audition package of contrasting songs with appropriate movement. Performers are coached in every aspect of the audition from first entrance onstage and spoken introductions to song presentation and staging.  This service has been used by performers in both opera and musical theatre.


Education:

D.M. Vocal Performance                   Florida State University  
M.M. Vocal Performance                      Florida State University     
B.A. Music (Vocal Performance)          Pensacola Christian College  

Vocal Instructors / Coaches:  Roy Delp, Lincoln Clark, Yvonne Ciannella, Benton Hess, Carol Webber, Samuel Sanders

Conductors:
   Anton Guadagno, Benton Hess, Samuel Baron, Stefan Minde, Roger Cantrell, Melvin Strauss, André Thomas,
Roger Wilhelm, William Weinert, Paul Stuart, Thomas Folan, Clayton Krehbiel, William Clarke, Colleen Kirk, Sydney Kennedy, Jack Jones, Timothy Hoekman, Karyl Louwenaar, Phillip Spurgeon, Mark Hoelburt


Selected Performances as Soloist with:

Opera
Palm Beach Opera (FL); Mobile Opera (AL); Opera Rochester (NY); Pensacola Opera (FL); South Georgia Opera (GA); Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera (FL); Florida State Opera (FL); Equinox Symphony Orchestra (NY); Florida State University (FL); Pensacola Christian College (FL); Pensacola Junior College (FL)

Solo Recitals
Westminster Choir College (NJ); Florida State University (FL); Emporia State University (KS); Pensacola Christian College; Nazareth College (NY); Hochstein Music School (NY); "Live From Hochstein" radio broadcast over WXXI 91.5 FM - PBS affiliate (NY); Christ Episcopal Church, Rochester (NY); "Spotlight on Faculty" Concert Series, Hochstein School of Music (NY); "Eastman at Washington Square" Series (NY); First Presbyterian Church, Thomasville (GA)

Concert / Orchestra
Bach Aria Festival and Institute (NY); Eastman School of Music (NY); Rochester Oratorio Society (NY); Choral Society of Pensacola (FL); Westminster Choir College (NJ); Florida State University (FL); Cornell University (NY); Ithaca College (NY); Tallahassee Bach Parley (FL); Rochester Bach Festival (NY); Monroe Community College (NY); Gulf Coast Community College (FL); Pensacola Christian College (FL); The Publick Musick (NY); Madrigalia (NY); Equinox Symphony Orchestra (NY); The Cantata Singers of Elmira (NY); Genesee Valley Orchestra & Chorus (NY); Masterworks Chorus of the Palm Beaches (FL); Big Bend Community Orchestra (FL); Tallahassee Music Guild (FL)

Musical Theatre
Don’t Tell Mama Cabaret (New York City - Manhattan cabaret debut); Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra (NY); Quincy Music Theatre (FL); Theatre A La Carte (FL); Tallahassee Little Theatre (FL); St. Marys Productions (FL); Pensacola Junior College (FL); Entertainment Plus (FL); The Peabody Hotel (FL); Thomasville Onstage & Co. (GA); Clara Schumann Music Club (AL); Hochstein Music School (NY); Rochester Association of Performing Arts (NY)


Opera & Operetta Roles Performed

ROLE PERFORMED

OPERA

COMPOSER

Micaela

Carmen

Bizet

Mimi

La Boheme

Puccini

Madrigal Singer

Manon

Puccini

Countess Almaviva

Le Nozze di Figaro

Mozart

Donna Elvira

Don Giovanni

Mozart

Despina

Cosi fan tutte

Mozart

The Mother

Amahl & the Night Visitors

Menotti

Lola

Gallantry

Moore

Aennchen

Der Freischutz

von Weber

Denise

Le Mariage aux Lanternes

Offenbach

Bubikopf

Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Ullmann

Amy  (World Premiere)

The Sisters of Manzanar

Stuart

Josephine

H.M.S. Pinafore

Gilbert & Sullivan

Mabel

The Pirates of Penzance

Gilbert & Sullivan

Yum-Yum & Katisha

The Mikado

Gilbert & Sullivan

Casilda

The Gondoliers

Gilbert & Sullivan

Phyllis

Iolanthe

Gilbert & Sullivan

Patience

Patience

Gilbert & Sullivan


Oratorio/Concert Roles Performed

Bach, J.S.

St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, B-Minor Mass, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio;
Cantatas 21, 51, 62, 68, 74, 80, 91, 97, 99, 100, 106, 115, 127, 140,142, 152, 172, 173, 211

Bach, C.P.E.

Klopfstocks Morgengesang

Brahms

Deutsches Requiem

Britten

Rejoice in the Lamb

Brucker

Te Deum

Faure

Requiem

Fiocco

Lamentatio Secunda

Gabrieli

In Ecclesiis

Handel

Messiah; Lucrezia

Haydn

The Creation (role of Gabriel), The Seasons, Missa Brevis St. Joannis Di Deo, St. Cecelia Mass,
Te Deum

Honegger

King David

Mahler

2nd Symphony "Resurrection" finale

Mendelssohn

Elijah; St. Paul

Mozart

Requiem; Grand Mass in C Minor; Coronation Mass; Solemn Vespers; Exultate Jubilate

Poulenc

Gloria

Rutter

Requiem

Saint-Saens

Christmas Oratorio

Scarlatti, A.

Su le Sponde del Tebro; Cantate Pastorale per la Natividad del nostro Signor Gesu Cristo

Schubert

Mass in G; Mass in A-flat; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen

Telemann

Lokke nur, Erde; Der Weiberorden; Hemmet den Eifer

Verdi

Requiem

Vivaldi

Gloria; Nulla in mundo pax sincera

                   
Musical Theatre Roles Performed                 

ROLE PERFORMED  

PRODUCTION

Amalia

She Loves Me

Guenevere

Camelot

Anna

The King and I

Marian Paroo

The Music Man

Audrey

Little Shop of Horrors

Eva Peron

Evita

Luisa

The Fantasticks

Mother Abbess

The Sound of Music

Woman I

Closer Than Ever

Rona Redbreast

The Journey of Sir Douglas Fir (New York premiere)


Selected Song Cycles / Sets Performed
Rorem - Women's Voices               
Faure - La Chanson d'Eve
Loeffler - Quatre Poemes
Vaughan Williams - Ten Blake Songs; Merciless Beauty     
Barber - Hermit Songs
Korngold - Songs of the Clown; Four Shakespeare Songs
Schumann - Frauenliebe und Leben     
Ravel - Histoires naturelles
Rochberg - Four Songs of  Solomon   
Sargon - Patterns in Blue   
Cooke - Three Songs for Soprano and Clarinet
Jacob - Three Songs for Soprano and Clarinet
Roe - Cat and Mouse: Jazz Songs for Soprano and Double Bass
Martin - Drey Minnelieder
Ireland - Songs Sacred and Profane          
Brahms - Zigeunerlieder; Gesänge Op. 6
Milhaud - Catalogue des Fleurs
Poulenc - La Courte Paille; Airs chantes; Le travail du peintre
Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen


Honors & Awards

Chosen as one of twelve voice teachers to intern in the National Association of Teachers of Singing
            Internship 2000
program, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY (June 2000)
Goodwill Ambassador/member of Group Study Exchange to the Philippines, sponsored by
             Rotary International
(Spring 2000)
Bach Aria Festival and Institute, SUNY-Stony Brook -- Artist Fellowship

Palm Beach Opera Vocal Scholarship Competition -- Finalist   
Pensacola Community Concerts Scholarship -- First Place Winner       
Mobile Opera Rose Palmai-Tenser Awards -- State Finalist   
Finalist, Fulbright Scholarship
(1986)
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
(1983)


Selected Memberships (educational, civic and professional):

Member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society: elected to membership in 1986
Member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing since 1986
Member of the Fairport Musicale (Rochester, NY civic music support organization) 1998-2005; 
        Secretary:  1999-2001
Member of the Morning Musicale (Rochester, NY civic music support organization) since 1999;
         Program Committee:  1999-present



Selected Recordings:

2001 - Soloist/cantor on demo recording of composer Cary Ratcliff's new liturgical service, sent to all churches within the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, NY

1996 - Recorded Flower Duet from Lakmé for the film soundtrack of A Full Cup, produced by Florida State University School of Motion Picture, T.V. & Recording Arts; under direction of Richard Portman, Academy-Award winning sound engineer

1992 - Recorded performances of opera/operetta/musical theatre for use with the book Mainstreaming in Public School Music Education:  K-12, authored by Dr. William Hughes, Dept. of Music Education, Florida State University

1989 - Member of 8-person vocal ensemble on Arias with Instrumental Obbligato:  Music from the Bach Aria Festival
and Institute, conducted by Dr. Samuel Baron; released by The Musical Heritage Society


Special Appearances:

·         Manhattan cabaret debut as guest artist at Don’t Tell Mama Cabaret on West 46th Street, New York City – August 2001

Soloist for Mozart’s Requiem, memorial performance for the victims of September 11th, in the Eastman Theatre with the Eastman Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus, under the direction of Dr. William Weinert – September 2001

Soloist for Eastman School of Music Summer Sings – 1998-present
Repertoire included Poulenc's Gloria, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Haydn's St. Cecelia Mass and The Seasons, Schubert's
Mass in E-flat Major, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Verdi’s Requiem; Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony

Soloist for Installation of Bishop Jack McKelvey, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester NY - November 1999
Premiered new work by Rochester composer Stephen Kennedy at the Eastman Theatre (Eastman School of Music)
and sang two additional solos during the ceremony, before an audience of approximately 2,000 attendees


Liturgical Music Employment:
·    Currently employed as section leader for High Holy Days choir and concert choirs, Temple B'rith Kodesh
        in Rochester, NY- 1998-present

Former soloist/section leader positions:  Christ Episcopal Church in Pittsford, NY; Epiphany Episcopal
       Church in Gates, NY; First Presbyterian Church in Thomasville, GA; Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter
       in Tallahassee, FL; Temple Baptist Church in Tallahassee, FL; Wildwood Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, FL;
       The Campus Church of Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, FL
Music director/choral director, Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, FL - 1985-1986
Soloist and quartet member, Pensacola Christian College collegiate touring quartet; annual three-month
        tours of U.S. - 1979-1981; involved in extensive student recruitment/college public relations outreach
        to high school students throughout the midwestern, western and southern U.S.


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