Shorter Music Winners
Vocal Studies
Her solo credits include performances with the Prague Radio Symphony, the Washington Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Piedmont Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Rochester Oratorio Society, Long Leaf Opera ( Durham, NC), Greensboro Oratorio Society, Cambridge Opera ( England), Cambridge Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Maine State Music Theatre, and Clocktower Jazz Ensemble. Her favorite roles include Monica in The Medium, Musetta in La Bohème, Maria in West Side Story, Maggie in A Chorus Line, and the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon. With Rome’s own Seven Hills Opera Theatre she has played Adina in The Elixir of Love and Adele in Die Fledermaus. A featured soloist on the Albany Records CDs “The American Soloist” and “Midnight Tolls,” she sang the world premiere of “Mountain Night Recessional” at the Biltmore House. Dr. Lister has won awards from NATS, the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, and Greater Miami Opera in addition to winning the 1998 Dissertation Prize from the National Opera Association. Her students have won awards from NATS and MTNA and are performing in regional theatre and concert halls as well as in the Broadway cast of Avenue Q. A member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Dr. Lister is also a composer, and her chamber opera about the Brontë sisters (How Clear She Shines!) had its world premiere in 2002 and the Ladies’ Musical Club of Seattle commissioned a piano trio version of the opera for its west coast revival in 2006. Her chapter on musical realizations of Wuthering Heights is featured in the Ashgate book The Brontës in the World of the Arts (2008). She created the course Yoga for Singers at Shorter and is working on a book inspired by the class. |
