Angela Powell,
Lyric Soprano
Opera Roles
- Help, Help, the Globolinks - Madam
Euterpova (Cincinnati Opera Outreach)
- Hansel & Gretel - The
Witch (Cincinnati Opera Outreach)
- Die Zauberflüte - Pamina (Cincinnati
Opera Outreach)
- Susannah - Susannah (Dayton
Opera)
- Susannah - Mrs. Gleaton (Dayton
Opera)
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Common Ground*
- 2nd Soprano (Dayton Opera)
- Snow White* - Evil Queen (Maryland
Opera Studio)
- Le Nozze di Figaro - Contessa (Maryland
Opera Studio)
*world premiere
Oratorio & Orchestral
- Metropolitan Chorus - Bach, Mass in B Minor - Soprano
Soloist
- American University - Beethoven, 9th Symphony - Soprano
Soloist
- Master Chorale of Washington (MCW) - European
Tour - Soprano Soloist
- St. Mary’s Catholic Mass Choir - Malotte,
Lord's Prayer - Soprano Soloist
- MCW, Kennedy Center - Faure, Requiem - Soprano
Soloist
- Washington Singers, Kennedy Center - Donald
McCullough, Holocaust Cantata*- Soprano Soloist
- MCW, Kennedy Center - Szymanowski, Stabat
Mater - Soprano Soloist
- MCW, Kennedy Center - Brahms,
A German Requiem - Soprano Soloist
- MCW, National Presbyterian Church - Donald
McCullough, Let My People Go* - Soprano Soloist
- Washington D.C. Summer Sing - Mozart, Requiem - Soprano
Soloist
- Paul Hill Chorale, Kennedy Center - Wilcox,
Magnificat - Soprano Soloist
- Choral Arts Society of Washington, Kennedy Center - Handel,
Dixit Dominus - Soprano Soloist
- Cincinnati Opera Outreach, Aronoff Theatre - Humperdinck,
Hansel and Gretel - Witch
- Cincinnati Symphony - Mozart, Don Giovanni
2nd Act Finale - Donna Elvira
- Kentucky Symphony - Puccini, La Boheme 2nd
Act Finale - Musetta
* Washington, D.C. premiere
Recordings
- A City Called Heaven (debut solo release)
- Opusrite recordings, 2001
- Music of George Gershwin, Ron Art Associates
Recordings, 2000
- Christmas with the Master Chorale of Washington,
Albany Recordings, 1999
- Holocaust Cantata, Songs from the Camps,
Albany Records, 1999
- Melodius Accord (Alice Parker guest
conductor) - Gothic Records, Inc. 1999
Awards/Associations
- Friday Morning Music Club, member
- Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI), member
- American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), member
- 2000 - Maryland State Art Council, Top
Grant
- 1999 - Poulenc Plus Competition, Semifinalist
- 1997 - National Society of Arts and Letters,
D.C. Chapter, First Place
- 1997 - Metropolitan Opera National Council
Midwest District Auditions, First Place
- 1995-7 - Outreach Program, Cincinnati
Opera
- 1995 - Dayton Opera, Artist in
Residence
- 1994 - Houston Grand Opera Vocal Competition, Semifinalist
- 1993 - Sigma Alpha Iota National Vocal Competition, First
Place
- 1993 - Metropolitan Opera National Council
Mid-Atlantic Region Audition, First Place
Education
- University of Maryland, MM 1994
- Oberlin Conservatory of Music, BM 1990
- Voice Teachers: Carmen Balthrop, Linda Mabbs, Daune Mahy, Stanley Cornett
- Master Classes/Coaches: Stephen Lord, Leon Major, Nico Castel, Todd
Duncan
Musical and Artistic Direction
- 2000-present - Master Chorale of Washington, Artistic
Associate for Vocal Development
- 2000-present - Washington D.C. Youth Choir, Artistic
Director
- 1997-2001 - Suitland High School, Assistant
Director
- Concert Choir: 60+ members
- Chamber Choir: 14 members
- 1998 - Amahl and the Night Visitors, Assistant
Director
- 1998 - St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Music Director
- Gospel Choir Director for the Month of February
- 1987-90 - St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church
Cleveland, Ohio, Music Director
- Anthem Choir 40+ members
- 1990-87 - Tappan Singers Oberlin College, Student
Director
Section Leader/Soloist Positions
- 2000-present - All Soul’s Unitarian
Church - Soprano Section Leader & Soloist
- 1999-2000 - St. Marguerite’s Episcopal
Church - Soprano Section Leader & Soloist
- 25 member ensemble
- 1998 - Washington Singers - Soprano
Section Leader
- 14 member professional ensemble
- 1998 - Paul Hill Chorale - Soprano
Section Leader
- 200 member volunteer ensemble with professional core
- 1991-94 and 1997-98 - St. Mary’s Catholic
Church - Soprano Section Leader
- Anthem Choir - 30 member ensemble
- 1989-87 - Miles Park Presbyterian Church - Soprano
Section Leader
- 40 member ensemble
Teaching Experience
- 1991-present - Private Voice Studio
- help to develop basic vocal technique from beginner to advanced singers
- 1999-present - Vocal Workshops in the Washington
D.C. metropolitan area
- lectures and master classes to choirs throughout Washington metro area
- 1998-2001 - Suitland High School
- private voice instruction to develop singers in grades 9 through 12
- 1998-present - Professor of Voice, Washington
Bible College
- private vocal instruction
- vocal pedagogy and literature
- vocal performance class
- 1996-1997 - Cincinnati Opera Outreach
- minority outreach lectures/master classes
- Music, Words, Opera - program developed to involve children
in actual opera productions
- children operas
- 1993-1994 - Dayton Opera Outreach
- master classes/lectures
- children operas