SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
4:00PM - 6:00PM CT
Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University

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Soprano Whitney Morrison leads the Festival Master Class, featuring graduate students from the Chicago College of Performing Arts, in performances of song repertoire.
ARTISTS:
Andreá Jones, soprano
David Kronenberg, tenor
Emily Thompson, soprano
Victoria Zamora, mezzo-soprano
Alternate: Kaleigh Watkins
WHITNEY MORRISON, soprano
Rising star Whitney Morrison has earned praise for her “big, gleaming soprano” (Chicago Classical Review) and “vocally sumptuous” performances (Chicago Tribune). A Chicago native and recent alum of the Ryan Opera Center, Morrison champions the African American aesthetic in classical music, embracing a style of performance that blends classical singing technique with elements of the gospel singing tradition. Of her most recent performance in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s virtual concert, “Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter,” Opera News raved, “Whitney Morrison was simply astonishing in everything she sang…This is a voice we need to hear live.”
 
Morrison’s recent engagements include her debut with Michigan Opera Theatre as Louise/Betty in The life and Times of Malcolm X, a role she is reprising with Opera Omaha and Odyssey Opera, and recording with Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She covered for the role of Billie in Fire Shut up in My Bones with the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
 
Morrison also appeared as Leonie Baker in the world premiere of Freedom Ride at Chicago Opera Theater, prompting The Wall Street Journal to declare, “One impassioned aria caught my ear: Leonie Baker (soprano Whitney Morrison)” and Classical Voice America to say, “the production’s big surprise was soprano Whitney Morrison, who nearly stole the show.” Morrison also garnered acclaim for her “richly textured performance and luxurious voice” (The Times Weekly) as Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. While at the Ryan Opera Center, Morrison covered the roles of Liù (Turandot), Marguerite (Faust) and Mimì (La Bohème) and performed as Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto), Gerhilde (Die Walküre) the First Cretan Woman (Idomeneo) and the Confidante (Elektra).   

GANZ HALL
430 S. MICHIGAN AVE
​CHICAGO, IL 60605

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Master Class photo: Chicago City Skyline
all performance and master class photography by Ryan Bennett, Mike Grittani, and Elliot Mandel