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Philip Voldman
 
Curriculum Vitae


Collaborative Piano & Chamber Music Experience

Mar. 19-21, 2006
Three Welsh Tenor Concert for Cantabile Artists Agency (singers: Dewi Wyn, Huw Llywelyn and Adriano Graziani)

Dec. 2005
Royal College of Music, London SOIREE D'OR Fundraising Concert in the Britten Theatre with 3 South-African Singers (Pumeza Matshikiza, Siphiwo Ntshebe & Vuyani Mlinde)

Oct. 2005
Rehearsal Pianist for Bruckner Te Deum with Terry Edwards and Bernard Haitink

April 25, 2005
‘American Connection’ concert of American songs and standards - Recital Hall

April 21, 2005
Concert of Music and Poetry for the John Ackroyd Music Scholarship - Britten Theatre

April 12, 2005
Opera Scenes in Concert - RCM Concert Hall

Mar. 2, 2005
South African Student Recital at the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa

Nov. 2004
Concert of Neopolitan Songs in The Old Sessions House in Clarkenwell Green with tenor Adriano Graziani

Oct. 31, 2004 & May 29, 2005
Concert in ‘The Sicilian’ in Tunbridge Wells, Kent - Opera Arias and Ensembles with three South African students of the Royal College of Music

Oct. 2004
Rehearsal pianist for Mahler Symphony No. 2 with Terry Edwards and Bernard Haitink

May 2004
Concert in Aid of Guide Dogs for the Blind Association at the Queen Alexandra House

Mar. 2003
Concert at Gracie Mansion

2002 – 2003
LaGuardia High School Opera Theatre: Rehearsal pianist and accompanist for performances of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and scenes and aria concerts in various community venues throughout New York City

Jan. 2003
New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble (NYMVAE), in collaboration with LaGuardia High School: Operatic arias and excerpts

Jul. 2002
Summer Arts Institute Festival at Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Jun. 2002
BMI Young Composers’ Concert


Conducting Experience

July 29 & 30, 2005
(Music Director) Production of La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi with Citywide Youth Opera Inc. (CYO). Director - Jennifer Griesbach, Producer - Andrés Andrade

May 2004
Complete performance of Berlioz’s Les Nuits D’Été with soprano and chamber orchestra

Mar. 2003
LaGuardia High School Opera Theatre: Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

Jan. 2003
NYMVAE Concert Series: Excerpts from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

Jan. 2003
LaGuardia High School Winter Chorus and Orchestra Concert


Solo Piano Experience

Dec. 2004
Concert of Operatic Piano Transcriptions (‘The Sicilian Restaurant’)

Oct. 2003
Royal College of Music: A Celebration of György Kurtag

1998-2000
Mosholu Community Center: Annual concert appearances


Choral Experience

Oct. 2005
Royal College of Music Chorus: Bruckner Te Deum with Bernard Haitink - Chorus Master: Terry Edwards

Oct. 2004
Royal College of Music Chorus: Mahler Symphony No. 2 with Bernard Haitink - Chorus Master: Terry Edwards

Nov. 2003
Royal College of Music Chorus: Concert of the Music of Brahms

June 2003
LaGuardia High School: Semi-Annual Chorus and Orchestra Concert

June 2003
Mozart’s Requiem Performance at Alice Tully Hall

Apr. 2003
Hugh Masekela & Friends Performance at Carnegie Hall

Mar. 2003
Orchestra of St. Lukes: Education Program Concerts

Mar. 2003
North Star Choral Festival: Concert at Alice Tully Hall

Jan. 2003
LaGuardia High School: Winter Chorus and Orchestra Concert

Dec. 2002
Sebastian Chamber Players Concert

Nov. 2002
A Judy Collins Christmas: Concert in Carnegie Hall

Sept. 2002
Lighting of the Eternal Flame: Ceremony in Battery Park

Sept. 2002
NYC Vigil for Peaceful Tomorrows Concert


Education

  • Royal College of Music, London (Class of 2007: BMus(Hons) in Piano Performance)
  • Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (FAME school), Class of 2003
  • Daniel Hale Williams Middle School of the Arts


Awards

  • Amadeus Fortepiano Prize (2006)
  • Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School: Julius Grossman Conducting Award (2003)
  • Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School: Scholarship Endowment (2003)
  • Dr. Randolph Goodman Award in Vocal Music (2003)
  • ARISTA (National Honor Society) (1999 – 2003)
  • LaGuardia High School Faculty Award – Outstanding Service to the School (2003)
  • LaGuardia High School Advanced Placement Music Theory Award (2003)
  • LaGuardia High School Opera Workshop Excellence Award (2003)
  • LaGuardia High School Music Honor Society Award (2001 – 2003)
  • The Richard Wilder Band Award (1999)
  • The International Library of Poetry: Editor’s Choice Award (1999)


Work Experience

April 2006
The Wexford Festival Opera Artists Development Programme (ADP) - an intensive course for Singers and Repetiteurs with Dennis O'Neill

Oct. 2005
Ernani Chorus Rehearsals with Brian Galloway for Opera Integra

Nov. 2004
‘The World of the Répétiteur’ - National Opera Studio/British Youth Opera weekend course with sessions, talks and master classes with coaches

Aug. 2004 -2006
V.O.I.C.Experience 2004: Sherrill Milnes & Friends - Intensive Vocal course for Singers and Repetiteurs

Sept. 2002 - June 2003
The Amato Opera Theatre: Assistant Pianist and Conductor

Aug. 2002
Metropolitan Opera Guild: Teacher Training Assistant

July 2002
Roundabout Theatre Company: Assistant to Gramercy, Studio 54, and American Airlines Theatres

July 2002
Summer Arts Institute: Making Art -- Building Hope (Orchestra director: Mr. Wayne J. DuMaine)


Keyboard

Nora Kaplan, Robert Apostle, Ruth Nye, Andrew Ball, Simon Nicholls and David Ward (fortepiano), Robert Woolley (harpsichord), Nigel Clayton


Master Classes

George Pappastavrou, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Mordecai Shehori, Sarah Walker, Robert Levin, Mark Tucker, Dennis O’Neill, Reri Grist, Lynsey Marsh, Roger Vignoles, Stephen Varcoe, Martina Arroyo


Conducting

Lucinda Santiago, Jerry Ulrich, Paula Washington, Patrick Bailey, Gerry Cornelius


Vocal Lessons

Elisabeth Robson, Andres Andrade, Marie McLaughlin, Patricia MacMahon, Joseph Ward, Russell Smythe, Neil Mackie, Sherrill Milnes, Ryland Davies, Barbara Feller, Inci Bashar, Patricia McCaffrey, Neil Rosenshein, Maria Spacagna, Graeme Broadbent, Roderick Earle, Peter Savidge, Timothy Evans-Jones


Opera Coaching

Andrés Andrade, Audrey Hyland, Louis Menendez, Gerald Martin Moore, Anthony Amato, Joan Dornemann, Howard Watkins, Jorge Parodi, Mikhail Hallak, Jennifer Griesbach, Patric Schmid, Jeanette Favaro-Reuter (Lieder Coaching), Richard Jackson


Choral Experience

Jerry Ulrich, Sean Berg, Terry Edwards


Singers that I worked with

Vuyani Mlinde, Siphiwo Desmond Ntshebe, Adriano Graziani, Eliana Pretorian, JunZhuo Wang, Natalie Dickson, Darryl Williams, Siu-Ying (Sandy) Leung, Chia-Fen Wu, Changsu Kim, Johan Christer Novsjø, Lukasz Jakobczyk, Pumeza Matshikiza, Alan Costigan, Simon Lobelson, Dawid Kimberg, James Edwards, Andrew Kennedy, Andrew Staples, Simon Kyung Lee, Daniel Ihn-Kyu Lee, Timothy Bostwick, Peter Burroughs, Brandon Evans, Christopher Tiesi, Ghi-Bong Kim, Darik Knutsen, Nicky Spence, Zack Rabin, Kostas Smoriginas, Shaun Dixon, Helene Fitzpatrick


Extra-Curricular Activities

At LaGuardia HS: Jewish Outlet (Vice President), Student Government Organization (SGO), Music Honor Society, Music Department Assistant, Big Sibs, March of Dimes