THEODORE SIPES, baritone THEODORE SIPES, baritone  THEODORE SIPES, baritone  THEODORE SIPES
 
Performance Schedule
A Chain of Verse and Song
with Dr. Tracy Cowden, piano
    September 5, 2007
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    September 18, 2007
    The University of Michigan
    September 20, 2007
    Grand Valley State University
    October 4, 2007
    Radford University
    November 8, 2007
    Virginia Tech  
 
November 3, 2007
    Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem
    New River Valley Symphony
    Virignia Tech University Choirs
December 15, 2007
    Bach Magnificat
    Blacksburg Master Chorale and Orch
 
 
 
Education and Teaching
  1. ‣DMA, MM
  2. University of Michigan
  3. ‣Teachers and coaches -
    Freda Herseth, Leslie Guinn, Martin Katz, Robert Spillman, Gustav Meier, Edward Berkley, Jay Lessinger, Luretta Bybee, Edward Parmentier, Tim Cheek, Robert Shewan
  4. ‣Master Classes -
    Grace Bumbry, Stanford Olsen
  5. ‣Teaching
  6. ‣Virginia Tech
  7. ‣University of Idaho
  8. ‣Spring Arbor University
  9. ‣Concordia University - Ann Arbor
  10. ‣Applied Voice, Vocal Literature, Operatic Literature, Foreign Language Diction, Class Voice, Sight Singing/Dictation
 
Research Interests
  1. ‣Performance
  2. ‣recital revitalization - making a recital an event
  3. ‣to serve as an initiator, liaison, collaborator and enabler for the creation of new chamber works for baritone, especially those which involve living poets, composers and visual artists
  4. ‣Pedagogical
  5. ‣discovering ways to help students invest in text early in their vocal studies
  6. ‣discovering the role that text investment, text enunciation and text communication play in vocal technique
  7.  
Concert Works and Operas
Haydn The Creation
Händel Messiah
Fauré Requiem
Bach The St. Matthew Passion
Vaughan Williams Christmas Fantasia    
Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem
Bach Magnificat
 
with the Blacksburg Master Chorale and Orchestra, the Saginaw Valley State University Choirs and Orchestra, the Bay Chorale, Bay City, Michigan, the New River Valley Symphony and Virginia Tech University Choirs
 
La Cenerentola, The Consul,
Amahl and the Night Visitors,
La Coronazione di Poppea,
La Rondine, The Tender Land,
Die Zauberflöte, La Traviata,
The Bartered Bride
Current Recital Project
Poets link composers and composers link poets in A Chain of Verse and Song.  A transition from French verse to English is made via Reynaldo Hahn’s rarely heard settings of poems from A Children’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.  The recital also features a new setting of Dickinson by Virginia Tech composer Ico Bukvic for computer and voice with audience input.  Although other composers and poets are included, the basic chain is illustrated below.  The recital is a collaboration with pianist, Tracy Cowden.
Poet
Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine
R.L. Stevenson
R.L. Stevenson
Walt Whitman    
Walt Whitman  
Emily Dickinson
Composer
Ernest Chausson
Reynaldo Hahn
Reynaldo Hahn
R. Vaughan Williams
R. Vaughan Williams
Ernst Bacon
Ernst Bacon
Sérénade Italienne Ernest Chausson Tracy Cowden, pianist
The Duchess’ Lullaby John Duke Erica Sipes, pianist
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