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Watch and learn from our amazing guest soloists as they work with talented and committed high school and college music students one-on-one in front of an audience of their peers and interested adults. Masterclasses are held at Smith Recital Hall, SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.RANDALL UMSTEAD, tenor, has performed widely in both operatic roles and in concert music. He has performed the title role in Britten's Albert Herring, the Doctor in Dominick Argento's The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, the Lecturer in Argento's one-man monodrama A Water Bird Talk, as well as Lurcanio in Handel's Ariodante, all at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. He was twice a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. During his first fellowship, he performed multiple roles in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with conductor Robert Spano. He also was selected to participate in the Tanglewood Bach Institute, directed by Craig Smith. During his second fellowship, he returned to Tanglewood to appear as the title character in Stravinsky's Mavra, under the direction of James Levine. Opera News praised this performance, calling him, "impressive as the soldier/Mavra, with exemplary diction and a strong, bright sound." The Hartford Courant said of this performance, “Lyric tenor Randall Umstead, playing the charismatic Vasily…stole the show. His voice has colors beyond his age, and acting enhanced his fit with this character.”
In August 2021, Dr. Umstead became the Herring Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at Furman University in Greenville, SC.
Dr. Umstead holds both the Doctor of Musical Arts and the Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, as well as the Bachelor of Music degree in voice from Oklahoma Baptist University. Randall’s students have been winners, finalists and semifinalists in both chapter and regional NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) student auditions, and in 2009 he was selected for the NATS Intern Program. Dr. Umstead current serves as Texoma Region Governor for NATS, and is a member of the NATS Board of Directors.
This event is free and open to the public. For our daytime events, guests should check in at the Visitor's Center (located at the front of campus) 10 minutes before the event starts. Once checked in, you will be escorted to the venue by a student representative.
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15 University Street, Greenville, SC, United States, South Carolina 29601
