| American soprano Sheila Barnes received
her musical education at the Yale University School of
Music and at the Juilliard School in New York, with
further studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the
Academie Maurice Ravel in St-Jean-de-Luz under tutelage
of the late Pierre Bernac. In opera she has sung
leading roles with the New York City Opera, the Spoleto
(Italy) Festival, the Houston Grand Opera, the Dallas
Opera, the St. Louis Opera, the Kentucky Opera and the
Guelph Ontario Spring Festival. As a soloist she has
appeared in many works with the Toronto Symphony, the
National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, the St. Luke's
Chamber Ensemble of New York, the Orfeo Catalan at the
Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, at the Cremona Festival
with Chiaroscuro, in Latin America with the Beethoven
society of Santiago, Chile, in Toronto with the Festival
Singers of Canada and with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir,
in Berkeley with the California Bach Society and with the
Houston Symphony. She made her recital debut in New York
at Carnegie Recital Hall as the winner of a competition
for young solo musicians, and has recently sung recitals
at the Dartington Festival and in London. She has
appeared at Lincoln Center in New York and on television
in a late revival of American composer Vigil Thomson's
opera The Mother of Us All, and she has recently
performed a new piece for soprano and piano trio,
premiered in England in January 1998.
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 Sheila Barnes
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 Sheila Barnes
teaching at a course of Haags Ad Hoc in The Hague,
Netherlands, in April 1998.
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A dedicated teacher, from her earliest
days as a professional singer she has been teaching:
first at Yale University and privately, and then at music
festivals in the United States (Bay View Michigan, Aston
Magna, New Jersey). She has jointly given classes in vocal
technique for singing Baroque music with English
tenor Nigel Rogers in Prato near Florence in Italy, in
the Deutsches Museum in Munich, in Cagliari, Sardinia, in
Wiltshire in England, and at the Dartington Festival. She
has also conducted an annual vocal workshop at the
Dartington International Summer school in Devon in the
past six years and has led a regular monthly singing
couse at the Accademia di Musica Antica in San Giovannino
in Alessandria, Italy, and at the Accademia Musicale di
Firenze in Florence in addition to her private studio.
She gives vocal coaching and masterclasses in The Hague,
Netherlands regularly to the members of Haags Ad Hoc
Chamberchoir. She gave a singing course at Rolduc in
Kerkrade in June 1999 and she will give courses in
Luxembourg in October 1999 and March 2000. She is also
scheduled to give a course in Historical Performance
Practice: Baroque Style and Techniques at the Vienna
Concervatory in the Autumn of 1999. |
