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; |
|
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, |
|
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.