TheDr. J LanYe'
3rd American Spirituals
Collegiate Solo Voice Competition
was held
3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 6, 2012
Lake Erie College--Morley Music Building
Painesville, Ohio
THE WINNER,
bass-baritone,
Lawrence Mitchell-Matthews,
from Indiana Univ.-South Bend
Prize....
to solo next summer, 2013, with
The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, N.Y.
Winner and Runner-Up,
coloratura soprano,
Rachel Snitzer,
from Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
have secured the prize:
lead roles with Ohio's
new opera company
"OPERA BY THE LAKE"
(debuting summer, 2013)
The next Spirituals competition
will be in 2014.
This "Spirituals"
competition is dedicated to America's great
indigenous art songs of the 18th-19th centuries, and is open to qualified
undergrad and graduate voice students,
20-35 years of age, of any race or ethnicity
