BARBARA BONNEY MASTERCLASS
We are thrilled to welcome Barbara Bonney, widely recognized as a superlative recital and concert artist and as one of the great Mozart singers of her time, as the master class clinician for our collegiate singers.
NATS-LA teachers and their students are welcome to attend, as well as interested non-members. However, we gratefully encourage a donation of any amount from non-members, given that it is through our membership dues that these types of very special events are made possible. (Please visit https://natslachapter.org/donate to make a donation.)
IMPORTANT: Teachers, please do NOT forward the Zoom link to students or colleagues. Anyone wishing to attend must pre-register with your own email and name so that when you try to enter the Zoom session, the moderator will recognize your name from the list and allow you to enter.
Barbara Bonney is one of the world’s most accomplished lyric sopranos. She leads the field in her chosen repertoire of roles by Mozart and Richard Strauss and is recognized as one of the finest Lieder and concert performers of her generation. Barbara Bonney sang with the world’s leading opera companies. Her interpretations of Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier under Sir Georg Solti and Carlos Kleiber have both been released on video, as has her performance of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) from La Scala, Milan. She was a regular guest with the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in Munich, Hamburg and Geneva.
In concert, Ms. Bonney has appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic under Seiji Ozawa and Riccardo Muti, the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado (singing Mahler), Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Mahler 2nd) and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk with John Eliot Gardiner (Paradies und die Peri and Mahler 4). In the summer of 1995 she was in residence at Tanglewood and performed extensively with Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in addition to giving recitals and masterclasses. Her engagements have included Falstaff and L’elisir d’amore at the Met, Figaro and Der Rosenkavalier at Bastille Opera in Paris and many other opera houses of the world. She toured Japan with Ozawa and made a major European tour with the Oslo Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons.
Barbara Bonney is a prolific recording artist and her outstanding recordings have included many with Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner (Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe) and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Also critically acclaimed were her recital discs of Lieder by Richard Strauss, Mozart, Wolf, Mendelssohn and Schubert, all accompanied by the late Geoffrey Parsons. In addition there are complete recordings of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte with both Harnoncourt and Östman, and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel under Jeffrey Tate. Additional releases include La Clemenza di Tito for Decca and Exsultate jubilate with Trevor Pinnock, plus Carmina Burana with André Previn for DGG and her Lieder series with discs accompanied by Previn and Ashkenazy. In 2007, she was appointed professor of voice at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
NATS-LA 2021 COLLEGIATE AUDITIONS RESULTS
Freshmen Treble
1st Jessica Tonai, Chapman University (student of Bruce McClurg)
2nd Kate Tyler, Biola University (student of Jeanne Robison)
3rd Bridget Lee, La Sierra University (student of Raejin Lee)
Honorable Mention
Elise Aquilon, Pepperdine University (student of Louise Lofquist)
Sophia Paz, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Freshmen TBB
1st Jared Whiston, Fullerton College (student of Aram Barsamian)
2nd Jonathan Trimble, Whittier College (student of Melissa Landis)
3rd Joshua Nash, Pepperdine University (student of Louise Lofquist)
Honorable Mention
Sebastian Tzannes, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Joseph Hall, Biola University (student of Joel Balzun)
Sophomore Treble
1st Brittany Weinstock, Pepperdine University (student of Louise Lofquist)
2nd Lora Bashmakian, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Alexander Hahn)
3rd Chloe Reyes, Fullerton College (student of Aram Barsamian)
Honorable Mention
Michelle Lockington, Fullerton College (student of Aram Barsamian)
Faith Burnett, The Master’s University (student of Sarah Dixon)
Sophomore TBB
1st Kobe Burton, Biola University (student of Joel Balzun)
2nd Antonio Serrano, Fullerton College (student of Aram Barsamian)
3rd Eric Cornwell, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Alexander Hahn)
Honorable Mention
Luke Oldroyd, Pepperdine University (student of Keith Colclough)
Brendan Peters, Biola University (student of Joel Balzun)
Super Sophomore
1st Tim Widner, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Aram Barsamian)
2nd Alex la Torre Duarte, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
3rd Zachary Skovold, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Honorable Mention
Jonathan Engstrom, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Junior Treble
1st Gem Acabal, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Marian Bodnar)
2nd Hannah Chang, La Sierra University (student of Raejin Lee)
3rd Molly Day, Pepperdine University (student of Ida Nicolosi)
Honorable Mention
Liana Wopschall, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Katharin Rundus)
Zuleyma Oropeza, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Katharin Rundus)
Junior TBB
1st David Limón, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Katharin Rundus)
2nd Marcos Torres, Biola University (student of Joel Balzun)
3rd Emilio Lopez Felix, Cal State University, Fullerton (student of Janet Smith)
Honorable Mention
Ruiyu Wang, Biola University (student of Joel Balzun)
Senior Treble
1st Kaytlin Withers, Pepperdine University (student of Melanie Emelio)
2nd Emma Ujifusa, Pepperdine University (student of Ida Nicolosi)
3rd Carmen Edano, Pepperdine University (student of Ida Nicolosi)
Honorable Mention
Anika De Long, Pepperdine University (student of Melanie Emelio)
Natalie Gonzales, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Katharin Rundus)
Senior TBB
1st Luke Norvell, The Master’s University (student of Sarah Dixon)
2nd Timothy Simon, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
3rd David Ingram, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Honorable Mention
Colin Broadwater, Biola University (student of Joel Balzun)
Evan Brooks, Biola University (student of Joel Balzun)
Super Senior
1st Alissa Vazquez, Cal Poly Pomona University (student of Susan Ali)
2nd Lupita Vargaz, Cal Poly Pomona University (student of Susan Ali)
3rd Kelvin Li, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Graduate Level
1st Guillermo Keymolent, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
2nd Mariah Rae Maglalang, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Katharin Rundus)
3rd Brianna Barnhart, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Honorable Mention
Veronica Robinson, Cal State University, Long Beach (student of Katharin Rundus)
Jacob Walters, Cal State University, Northridge (student of Hugo Vera)
Comments Only Category
These students did not, for a variety of reasons, fit into the NATS National Rules regarding categories, so they sang for “comments only”. To honor and recognize this group of students NATS-LA has selected one participant to perform for the Master Class with Barbara Bonney.
The student selected is:
Elizabeth Gross, Santa Monica College (student of Janelle DeStefano)