Each month CS highlights one of its readers. If you’d like to take Center Stage in an upcoming issue of Classical Singer, visit www.classicalsinger.com/magazine/center_stage/. Tell us about yourself, and upload a picture. We want to know about you!
Dear Editor: I continue to recommend Classical Singer to all my undergraduate and graduate students as a most valuable tool in making the transition into the professional world. Many thanks!
Dear Editor: Classical Singer has been a wonderful tool and great inspiration for me as a young singer. Some of the articles I appreciate most are the personal interviews with
Dear Editor: I was gifted $20,000 to make a classical dramatic soprano arias CD with the Prague Radio Orchestra. [Joanne Corbett-]Barnes stated she had started negotiations with the orchestra and
This month concludes the Classical Singer spotlight on the 14 singers named Certified Singers at the 2005 AudComps. This month we spotlight Cortez Mitchell and Jason Kaminski from the Young Artist Division. Stay tuned for the announcement of the 2006 – 2007 Certified Classical Singers, to be named at the Classical Singer Convention 2006 in Philadelphia at the end of this month.
Classical Singer recently received a number of letters regarding the Southeast Auditions sponsored by Joanne Corbett-Barnes of Arts Management Services. The auditions were scheduled for Atlanta this past November, postponed to December, and ultimately cancelled, just two days before the rescheduled auditions. Joanne Corbett-Barnes told singers she was forced to cancel the event because she was unable to find a suitable accompanist for the auditions. A similar scenario occurred earlier in 2005 for her Southwest Auditions in Texas. The opinions expressed below are entirely those of the letter writers. CS contacted Joanne Corbett-Barnes for her side of the story; she responded with a memo, posted on her website, explaining the cancellation, also printed below with her permission. We invite all singers to read these accounts along with Ms. Corbett-Barnes reply to form their own conclusions.
Dear Editor: I just wanted to thank you for the issue [February 2006] devoted to singers with families. I gave birth to the most precious baby boy in November, but
Dear Editor: The magazine is … a useful resource. I especially am appreciative of the medical information. It was instrumental in my avoiding intubation in a recent surgical procedure. —Wanda
Each month, Classical Singer highlights two of the 14 singers our panel of distinguished judges chose from more than 200 applicants at the 2005 AudComps for having a ready-to-go audition package appropriate to their Artist Division. This month we spotlight Gwendolyn Brown and Kristianna VanOveren from the Emerging Professional Division.
