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CYNTHIA LAWRENCE, SOPRANO
Cynthia Lawrence has sung on five continents and is hailed as one of America’s most exciting singing actresses. She is a regular guest of leading opera companies around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera; Royal Albert Hall, London; the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin; New Israeli Opera; Opera Pacific; Opera Colorado; Deutsche Staatsoper; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Paris Opera, Prague’s National Theater; Grand Theatre de Geneva; Vlaamse Opera, Belgium; Castleward Opera, Belfast, Ireland; Opera Columbus; Dayton Opera; Minnesota Opera; Opera Ontario; Athens Festival, Theater Megaron; New York City Opera; Lake George Opera Festival; Opera Omaha; Central City Opera; Colorado Opera Festival; and Opera Memphis. While living in Lexington, KY, Ms. Lawrence has been a featured soloist in the 4th of July Celebration at Transylvania University for the City of Lexington; on a KET television broadcasts of the Alltech’s Celebration of Song and the ‘100 year Gala celebration of the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion’.Recently Cynthia sang a CONCERT ‘CARACALLA FOR UNICEF’ as a guest artist at The Baths of Caracalla, Rome for a charity evening in aid of UNICEF along with: José Carreras, Andrea Bocelli, Carly Paoli, Russell Watson, Andrea Griminelli & Alessandro Safina, accompanied by Roma United Orchestra, directed by David Giménez. Miss Lawrence appeared as Mimi in La Boheme with the National Symphony of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic as part of their 40th Anniversary celebration. The previous fall she sang one of her favorite roles of Madame Butterfly in Anthony Minghella’s production, to a sold out crowd at the Guangzhou Opera House in China. In previous years Ms. Lawrence appeared as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with the National Symphony of Santo Domingo as well as singing Tosca at Opera North Carolina and Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera. She has appeared yearly in the Alltech Celebration of Song, and was a featured soloist in the FEI World Equestrian Games which was held in Lexington, Kentucky and broadcast worldwide.
Her Lady Macbeth at Palacio Das Artes, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and was a smash sell-out and she was a featured performer in the 75th Anniversary Gala of Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. In the fall of 2008 she was honored to be a selected soloist and speaker for the concert and DVD “A Tribute to Pavarotti: One Amazing Weekend in Petra”. The previous December Cynthia sang the Gala Concert with Opera Fort Collins and was also in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she sang four concerts at the “Journey Through Time” festival and exhibition and starred in a gala concert in Lima, Peru. During the past several seasons, she sang Madame Butterfly with the Lithuanian Nation Opera in Spain and Opera Carolina, Maddelena with Ben Heppner as Andrea Chenier with CulturArte de Puerto Rico, Lady Macbeth, with the Metropolitan Opera and the Florentine Opera. The year before she sang Tosca with The Royal Albert Hall, London as well as with The Vancouver Opera. In previous seasons at the Metropolitan Opera she sang as Madame Butterfly, Musetta, Tosca, and Roxanne in Cyrano and Dolly in Sly opposite Placido Domingo. She also sang Elettra in Idomeneo at The Washington Opera, Cio-Cio-San for Connecticut Opera and Tosca for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She also appeared at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Candace in A Wedding, and Opera Carolina, Atlanta Opera and Portland Opera as Tosca.
She appeared over 70 times in concert with the late Luciano Pavarotti; touring cities and countries such as Doha, Qatar; Italy; Chile; Venezuela, Argentina; Germany; Norway; Japan; China; Malaysia; England; Canada; South Africa, and throughout the United States. Her roles include her praised Tosca; Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera; Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac; Dolly in Sly; her celebrated Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly; Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus; Lavinia, in Mourning Becomes Electra; Elettra in Idomeneo; Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito; Musetta in La Boheme,; Micaela and Carmen in Carmen; The First Lady and Pamina, in Die Zauberflöte; Fiordiligi in Cosí fan Tutte; Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth; Die Frau in Schoenberg’s Von Heute auf Morgen; Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro; Liú in Turandot; Marguerite in Faust; Countess Olga in Fedora; The Italian Singer in Strauss’s Capriccio and Mimi in La Boheme.
Recently she and her husband Mark gave joint Master Classes, taught lessons and co-directed scenes at Augusta University’s ‘Opera Initiative Summer Workshop’ for young opera and Music Theater performers. They both taught and directed at ‘Opera Studio do Recife’ in Recife, Brazil; have presented a recital at Silver Lake College, Wisconsin; taught lesson and gave master classes in Guadalajara, México and at The State University of Hidalgo, Mexico; Georgia Regents College and at the 4th International Conference on the Acoustics of Singing held at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
https://finearts.uky.edu/music/faculty-staff/cynthia-lawrence
AMY SHOREMOUNT-OBRA, SOPRANO
Ms. Shoremount-Obra, the Top Prize Winner in the 2018 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition Wagner Division, made her much-anticipated Metropolitan Opera Debut in October 2014 as “First Lady” in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, a role which she reprised at the Met in both 2017 & 2018 in the Julie Taymor English version of the opera. Recent operatic engagements have included “Donna Anna” (Don Giovanni)with Opera Las Vegas, The Savannah Voice Festival, Venture Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera (cvr), “Marchesa” (Verdi’sUn Giorno di Regno) with Odyssey Opera of Boston, “Fiordiligi” (Cosi fan tutte) with Annapolis Opera, “First Lady” (The Magic Flute) with the Pacific Symphony, “Freia” (Das Rheingold) with the New York Philharmonic (cvr), and “Leonore” (Beethoven’s Fidelio) with Grand Harmonie. Ms. Shoremount-Obra has appeared at Carnegie Hall three times as the Soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem, Brahms’ Requiem, and Schubert’s Mass in G.
She made her David Geffen Hall debut in Lincoln Center with the National Chorale as the Soprano Soloist in Verdi’s Requiem and recently appeared with them again at the same hall in 2018 performing as the Soprano Soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade for Music. 2018 fall engagements included the role of “Artemis” inPermaDeath, a world premier by Dan Visconti, a solo concert with the Orquesta Filarmónica del Estado de Chihuahua in Mexico, and a return to the Metropolitan Opera as “First Lady” inThe Magic Flute. The spring of 2019 brings Ms. Shoremount-Obra’s debut at the Oregon Music Festival, a recital appearance at the University of Tulsa, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Mass in C with the Scarsdale New Choral Society (NY). Future engagements include her debut in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot. Ms. Shoremount-Obra was a 2004 National Semi-Finalist and NY Regional Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and holds a BM and MM from Manhattan School of Music and an AD from the Juilliard School. She was featured as the SoundBite in the May 2016 issue of Opera News.
As a teaching professional, she was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2017. She previously held an adjunct position as a professor of vocal methods at The College of New Jersey and several artist-in-residency positions at Lawrence Conservatory of Music (Wisconsin), the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua in Mexico and most recently at the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma). She has given masterclasses and lectures at Lawrence, the NJ Governor’s School of the Arts, the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua and at various festivals and workshops throughout the United States. During the summer of 2018 she joined the faculty of Juilliard’s Nord Anglia Vocal Program in Orlando, FL and returned to Mexico for the International Opera Workshop CUU in Chihuahua. During the fall of 2018 she gave a masterclass at Manhattan School of Music’s Pre-College Division and in Mexico again at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua. She is also currently the vocal consultant for the Palm Springs (CA) Opera Guild’s OperaTunity Program which has commissioned a world premier opera for teenage voices by composer Michael Ching. She also maintains a private studio in both Manhattan and New Jersey.
Edwin Cahill, Director
American director, producer, and librettist Edwin Cahill’s unique background as a concert pianist and Broadway actor. “A talented pianist, a first-rate singer, and an engaging stage presence” (New York Times) informs his “joyful and passionate directing” (onmilwaukee.com) that is “light, effortless, and fits the space like a glove” (Music4awhile), leading to a body of work in theater, musicals, and operas that “will make hearts melt” (Broadway World).
Mr Cahill’s directing is described as “seamless…completely engrossing the patron in the idiosyncrasies of Mozart’s music” (dosavannah.com), “achieved the nearly impossible...and staged every scene with urgency, inventiveness and most importantly, a reverence for the music” (The Huffington Post), and reached the pop culture breakthrough of the “brilliant and highbrow approval matrix” (New York Magazine). His work has led critics to acclaim that “Cahill has perhaps invented a new style of opera…punk opera comique” (dosavannah.com) and that he created “by far the most enjoyable and thought-provoking Don Giovanni New York has heard in many a year.” (Opera News).
Highlights of recent seasons include: Into the Woods in Milwaukee at the Skylight Theatre; Carmen starring Jennifer Johnson Cano for Sherrill Milnes’ Savannah Voice Festival; Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Le Nozze di Figaro in Tel Aviv; a new Off-Broadway adaptation/workshop of Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Tony award-winner Judy Kaye; Don Giovanni at Venture Opera in New York City, Don Giovanni and La Bohème with Savannah Voice Festival; newly conceived staged version of Hanns Eisler’s Hollywood Songbook for SongFest in Los Angeles; and as founding artistic director of the Fire Island Opera Festival: the east coast premier of Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist, Bon Appétit starring Jamie Barton, L’Arbre Enchanté for which he also adapted a new American libretto, Un Amour de Proust, and a touring residency with Marfa Live Arts in Marfa, Texas.
As an actor, Edwin won a Kevin Kline award for his portrayal of Cosme McMoon in the play Souvenir, co-starred in the feature film My Dead Boyfriend directed by Anthony Edwards starring Heather Graham, and co-starred in the CBS TV series Person of Interest. Broadway productions include LoveMusik, directed by Harold Prince and the national tour of the Tony award-winning revival of Sweeney Todd directed by John Doyle. He has appeared in over ten productions Off-Broadway and his regional appearances include the major theatres of America and Canada. He holds a B.A. in French - Magna cum Laude from Tufts University, a B.M. in voice from New England Conservatory, and has pursued master’s studies in voice at the Manhattan School of Music and in French Literature of the 19th Century at the University of Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle. He is originally from Maine and lives in New York City.
Edwin Cahill
Edwin Cahill
Mathew Morris
Matthew Patric Morris, Actor
Matthew Patrick Morris has performed with the American Repertory Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barbican Theatre on The West End, Les Bouffes du Nord in Paris, Piccolo Teatro in Milan, New York City Opera, The Kennedy Center, Santa Fe Opera, the National Tour of Scrooge: The Musical, on television in Law & Order, and in the feature film The Producers! As the Lead Faculty for Juilliard and Nord Anglia’s summer high school voice programme and Associate Artistic director of SongFest, Matthew directed the vocal performance programs and created a new curriculum, innovating tailor-made courses for complete singing-actors from high school through professional levels.
He led the Opera Workshop at Brooklyn College where he directed the New York premiere of Ana Sokoloviç’s SVADBA, and co-taught the Professional Development Workshop at Bard College Graduate Vocal Arts. He is currently training to be an Alexander Teacher at the Balance Arts Center with Ann Rodiger. BM voice (Juilliard) and MM vocal arts (Bard College Conservatory).
