Voice masterclass with Louise Toppin
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Nov 11, 2022 12 - 1:45 p.m.
Location
Guzzetta Recital Hall - The University of Akron
157 University Ave
Details
Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and a world-renowned singer and scholar on African-American composers. The master class is free and open to the public.
Louise Toppin has received critical acclaim for her operatic, orchestral, oratorio and recital performances world-wide. She toured in “Gershwin on Broadway” with pianist Leon Bates and currently tours with Joseph Joubert, piano and Robert Sims, baritone. She has recorded more than eighteen compact disks of primarily American Music songs with piano and with orchestra including solo CDs Songs of Illumination, (Centaur Records), and on Albany Records Ah love, but a day (with John O’Brien) He’ll Bring it to Pass, (Joseph Joubert, piano), Heart on the Wall with the Prague Radio Symphony and La Saison des fleurs with John Obrien. Her newest release is Vol. I Songs of Love and Justice (9/1/21) songs of Adolphus Hailstork with John O’Brienk and due out in 2022, Summer.Life.Songs (songs by Adolphus Hailstork); Duos (with countertenor Darryl Taylor; vocal chamber music) and The Soprano songs of T. J. Anderson.
