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Härnösand Opera Academy and Festival 2017

Introduction: Härnösand and Kapellsberg .............2...............................................................................................................Introduction: The Opera Academy ......3..................................................................................................................................Faculty and Performing Artists 4-9..........................................................................................................................................Registration, Accommodations, Fees and Traveling to Härnösand 10...................................................................................

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Kapellsberg at Härnösands Folkhögskola

Kapellsberg Music Department at Härnösands Folkhogskola is since its beginning in1961 one of Sweden’s most renowned music training programs where classical and contemporary music are at the fore. Here is a creative environment where experienced and professional teachers give students a solid foundation upon which to continue their development as performing musicians, pedagogues and composers. The Music Department provides full offerings in Classical Singing, Piano, Percussion, Woodwinds, Brass, Choral Conducting, Recorder (Flûte-à-bec), Organ, Composition and Music Pedagogy (Education). Students study a major and a minor instrument, participate in ensembles (The Orchestra is organized in cooperation with Härnösands Music Society) and have many opportunities to perform on campus and in venues in the community of Härnösand. For more information, visit: http://hfs.se/langa-kurser/

Härnösand is the seat of Härnösand Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 25,000 inhabitants and located about 450 kilometers north of Stockholm. It is called "the gate to the High Coast" because of the world heritage landscape rises just some miles north of Härnösand. Härnösand is probably most known to the uninitiated for its history as a big and important harbor town and for its beautiful landscapes.

The city center has preserved many traditional buildings and boasts an active social scene with varied musical programs, museums In 2004, Härnösand was awarded the prestigious title “City Centre of the Year.”

The city also has an extensive selection of outdoor activities in the summer including climbing, kayaking, trekking, etc. The town also features a summertime beach Smitingen, which boasts some of the finest beach-volleyball pitches in the world and which occasionally gets some surfable waves. Härnösand is each summer the site of one of the world's largest airsoft (paintball) events, Berget.

Also known for winter sports, Härnösand boasts world class ski venues for both downhill and cross country. Härnösand also has one of the world’s finest schools for the Olympic sport of curling, which has produced Anette Norberg who led Sweden to the Team Gold Medal in 2010.

Kapellsberg Music Department at Härnösands Folkhogskola in beautiful Härnösand, Sweden organizes the Härnösand Opera Academy and Festival to provide the ever-developing singer an opportunity to hone in the many skill-sets required of an operatic artist in an environment that is as supportive and genial as it is focused and challenging. The program will provide daily classes in physical fitness and mental focus, vocal technique, musical coaching, scenic interpretation, language and diction, body-alignment/muscular balancing and ensemble singing. Additionally each singer will have the opportunity to perform in daily master classes and take part in a performance of arias and scenes at the end of the program as well as a final concert with the faculty.

The Faculty-Featured

Bass-baritone John Cheek (Voice and Oratorio) made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1977 and has since appeared in more than 370 performances there including the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro both at Lincoln Center and on tour in Japan. In that same year he also made his debut at Tanglewood, singing the Haydn Lord Nelson Mass conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Most recently at the Met, he received critical praise for his portrayal of Dansker in Billy Budd. At the New York City Opera, he sang three title roles in one season, Mefistofele, Attila, and the world premiere of Jay Reise’s Rasputin. In Europe he sang with the Paris Opera, The Finnish National Opera, Opera de Nice, the Monnaie Opera in Brussels, The Bregenzer Festspiel, The Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Southwest German Radio, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, The London Promenade Concerts, The Salzburg Festival, and the Stockholm Royal Philharmonic. As a recitalist, he appeared at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, and in four recitals in New York City at the 92nd street Y and at the Ravinia Festival with James Levine at the piano. Repertoire included Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Winterreise. As an oratorio and concert singer, he has performed with every major symphony orchestra in North America. In May of 2016 he returned to the Cincinnati May Festival for his 16th season performing the Mozart C Minor Mass and Verdi’s Otello. In August he sang Bonze in Madame

Butterfly in the newly formed Berkshire Opera Festival. It is our pleasure to have him among our featured faculty. He will sing Scarpia in our Tosca in the Church production and teach an Oratorio class, teach private voice and masterclasses.

Eric Gibson (Regie) is a rising name in stage direction who feels equally comfortable with opera, operetta and musical theater. His many productions, receiving constant critical acclaim, include Candide, Trouble in Tahiti, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus, the entire Gilbert and Sullivan canon and a host of musical theater works including, Sweenie Todd, Evita, Gypsie, Guys and Dolls and Into the Woods to name a few. He is greatly in demand as a stage director throughout the University system in the United States and recently joined the acting and coaching faculty of The American Institute for Musical Studies, the reknown opera training program in Graz Austria. He is based in Flagstaff, Arizona where he holds the post of Associate Professor of Lyric Theater at Northern Arizona University. Mr. Gibson earned his bachelors degree at the University of Michigan and Masters in Opera Direction at Indiana University. An excellent pianist and trained singer, his vibrant stagings stem from an intimate knowledge of the musical score. We welcome him among our featured faculty. He will stage operatic scenes and will assist in the staging of

Tosca in the Church. He will also teach masterclasses and other seminars on stagecraft.

Dr. Wayne Barr earned degrees in church music and choral conducting from Westminster Choir College (B.M.), Southern Methodist University (M.M., M.S.M.), and The University of Michigan (D.M.A.). He has served as organist and choir director at churches in Alabama, Michigan, New Jersey and Texas and is currently Director of Choral Activities at Tuskegee University. Under Dr. Barr’s direction, the Tuskegee Choir has toured the Midwestern and East Coast regions of the United States, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The Choir has also presented numerous concerts throughout the Southeast. As an organ recitalist, Dr. Barr has twice been a featured organist at the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. He is also a music workshop clinician. Dr. Barr is co-director of the Italian Opera Study Abroad Program, which offers students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) a four-week study of Italian opera with a renowned coach in Italy. Dr. Barr is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association of Negro Musicians, and the American Guild of Organists. We are honoured to have him among our featured faculty. He will participate in our Tosca in the Church production and help teach an Oratorio class.

Professor Leif Lundberg (pianist/Musical Presentation) is among the most esteemed figures in the Swedish Opera scene, both as a top repetiteur/coach and a voice teacher. He mentored the Swedish tenor Gösta Winberg through his change from Lyric to dramatic tenor and counselled him up until Mr. Winberg’s untimely death. He has coached Nina Stemme through her transition into the dramatic repertoire and continues a fruitful collaboration with her. From 2002-10 he was the head repetiteur and Studienleiter and assistant conductor at the Royal Opera Stockholm, where he was responsible for the the works of Wagner and Richard Strauss, during which time he taught many of the singers in the solo ensemble. Professor Lundberg is currently the administrator for the Opera program at the Opera Högskolan in Stockholm, Sweden’s highest opera training institution. We are happy and fortunate to have him among our featured faculty.

Philipp Vogler, pianist/conductor, received his education at both the Hochschule für Musik in Köln and in Düsseldorf. He has been conductor at the theaters of Saarbrücken and Augsburg in Zauberflöte and Barbiere among other works and has appeared internationally at London’s Royal Albert Hall conducting Carmina Burana and Holst The Planets. He was engaged at the Hamburg State Opera, first as répétiteur and then as Head of Music. Since 2003 Philipp Vogler holds the position of Music Director of the Opera Program at München’s Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Künste, where he has conducted many local premieres including first showings of Bellini’s Capuleti e Montecchi Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Wax Works and Korngold’s Mute Serenade. Philipp records regularly as piano soloist, with his wife, soprano Helene Lindquist as well as violinist Stephan Schardt. He and Helene Lindquist maintain The Art Song Project, a website dedicated to great but less known song repertoire.

Dr. Mutsumi Moteki pianist (Song Track). Since her college years in Tokyo, Japan, Mutsumi Moteki has been active as a vocal coach/collaborative pianist. She received extensive training in this area at Westminster Choir College (under Glenn Parker and Dalton Baldwin) and University of Michigan (under Martin Katz) as well as prestigious summer programs such as Music Academy of the West, Steans Institute for Young Artists, Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien and Conservatoire de musique in Genève. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches singing diction, vocal repertoire, French song literature and vocal accompanying, and heads the musical staff of Eklund Opera Program. She has performed regularly with singers such as Patti Peterson, Keri Rusthoi, Patrick Mason and Irene Friedlob, and has appeared in recitals in Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Mexico, Macedonia and Germany as well as in the United States. Known for her effective and unique vocal coaching style, which promotes beautiful legato singing as well as detailed diction and interpretation, Dr.

Moteki has been seen in master classes at many universities and college in the U.S. In the spring of 2000 she taught five weeks at Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, Germany, as an exchange vocal coach. She also taught at Kobe College in Japan for a year as the Bryant Drake Guest Professor during the academic year 2002-2003. In the summer she taught vocal accompanying at the University of Miami’s Salzburg Summer Program from 2005 until 2014. As one of the pioneers among Asian vocal coach-pianists working in the U.S., Dr. Moteki holds a special place in this field. In 2011 she gave a lecture/master class on “Singing in Italian” at the Italian Cultural Center in Tokyo, Japan, and gave a presentation about vocal coaching and a master class at the International Collaborative Piano Literature Symposium at the Tainan National University of Arts in Taiwan, where she also held a short residency as a master teacher. She co-translated “The Complete Collaborator: the pianist as partner” by Martin Katz into Japanese, and the Japanese edition was published in the spring of 2012. Another important project for Dr. Moteki is to promote Japanese art songs in the U.S. With Dr. Kumiko Shimizu at the Delta State University she is co-editing a Japanese Art Song Anthology, and its Vol. 1 was published by Classical Vocal Reprints in September of 2014. With Dr. JungWoo Kim, baritone, she presented a lecture recital on “Songs of East Asia” at Hope College, Murray State University, and CU-Boulder in 2015. After she inspired our students and electrified our audiences with the Massenet Mélodies Project and Early Music Ensemble in 2016, we are thrilled to have her back among our featured faculty.

Arguably the finest Pélléas on record, the Grammy Award winner (Ferrando--Cosi fan tutte) George Shirley, tenor literally opened the door for men of color on the operatic stage.  The first black tenor to sing lead roles at major opera houses all over the world ( Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Glynebourne, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Netherlands Opera, Teatro Colon, etc), paradoxically Maestro George Shirley's artistry transcends race.  A pedagogue for more than a half century, He has held professorships at the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan. He is a colleague beloved

by his peers  and a teacher admired by his students, evoking a level of respect  that very few can inspire. It is our great honor to welcome him to Härnösand Summer Opera Academy as our featured teacher for the third year in a row.

Dr. Kathrine Osborne, mezzo-soprano is currently Instructor of Voice at Northern Iowa University. She has been featured in operas and oratorios from the Baroque to the 20th Century including most recently, the title role in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia, Mercedes in Carmen, soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, etc…A respected pedagogue and researcher, Dr. Osborne is the 2014 recipient of the coveted Van Lawrence Prize given each year by the Voice Foundation and the National Association of Teachers of Singing to one pedagogue who makes effective use of vocal science in his or her teaching. Dr. Osborne co-taught the first Kashu-do Teacher Training Program during the HSOAF 2015 with Dr. LaFond to a resounding success.

Meta Powell, dramatic soprano has received critical acclaim for her recent appearances as Brünnhilde from both Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung for Opera Forge at the Royal Festival Hall and at St. John Square (London). She appeared to critical acclaim as Ortlinde (Walküre) and Third Norn (Götterdämmerung) for Longborough Festival Opera and The Wagner Society of London. Future appearances include all three Brünnhildes (Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung) for Opera Forge. An accomplished vocal pedagogue, she represents Kashu-do Studios in London and has the distinction to be one of two singers designated Gold Level Singer, the highest level of technical achievement in the Kashu-do System. Metal Powell has studied advanced forms of meditation, which contribute to her multi-faceted teaching style. Meta was among the teachers chosen for the inaugural Kashu-do Teacher Training Program and was a featured teacher at HSOAF 2015.

Anna Niedbala, Soprano, began her career as a mezzo-soprano singing such roles as Cherubino, Dorabella, Cenerentola etc, with Opera Illinois, Sarasota Opera, Chicago Opera Theater among others. She changed to soprano with the role of Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni and later Fiordiligi, Desdemona and Santuzza. She made her European debut as Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) with Salzburg’s Landestheater. A gifted teacher, Anna was chosen as an inaugural member of the first Kashu-do Teacher Training Program and taught at the HSOAF in 2015. She continues her performance activities in Germany where she also runs her vocal studio in the city of Dortmund.

Anna Hanning, soprano has appeared as Queen of the Night, Olympia, Valencienne, Nedda and Tosca, among other roles with theaters throughout Sweden and in Europe. A seasoned concert singer, she is in great demand for oratorio and recitals. Anna received her education at the Music Conservatories of Piteå, Goteborg and Bermingham England. Anna is a member of the Opera Studio team of teachers at Kapellsberg Musiklinje of Härnösands Folkhögskola.

Karin Bengtsdotter-Olsson, mezzo-soprano, received her education as voice and piano pedagogue from the Musikhögskola in Örebro. She has been active as a voice pedagogue since 1979 and at Musiklinjen Kapellsberg since 1987. She has been an active soloist in oratorio and a refined recitalist. One of the most effective voice teachers to be found anywhere, whose skills are only rivaled by her deep humility, it is our great honor to have her active participation as voice pedagogue at Härnösands Summer Opera Academy. Karin is a member of the Opera Studio team of teachers at Kapellsberg Musiklinje of Härnösands Folkhögskola.

The Faculty-Voice

The Faculty—Conductors/Pianists

Brandon Eldredge is an active collaborative pianist, vocal coach, and composer. A former resident of the Washington, DC area, James has performed in many of Washington’s most prestigious venues, including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Arts Club of Washington, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, the Embassy of Luxembourg, the Strathmore Mansion, and the Washington National Cathedral. He was also the pianist for the award-winning Thomas Circle Singers from 2007-2012, during which they premiered works by American composers Gwyneth Walker and Blake Henson. From 2012 to 2015, as a resident of central Ohio, James worked with numerous professional organizations including Opera Columbus, Opera Project Columbus, the Carpe Diem String Quartet and Columbus Dance Theatre, and was a freelance pianist and vocal coach at The Ohio State University and a staff accompanist for Ohio Wesleyan University. During the summer of 2015 he was an accompanist and vocal coach at Härnösand Opera Academy and Festival in Härnösand, Sweden, where he had the pleasure of accompanying the legendary tenor George Shirley in recital. During the summers of 2007-2009 he accompanied and assisted

distinguished artists and conductors in workshops at Westminster Choir College, including singers Julianne Baird and Elem Eley, and conductors James Jordan, Weston Noble, Joe Miller and Bruce Chamberlain. James especially enjoys composing art song. His song set The Living Root was premiered at historic St Margaret’s Church in Annapolis, MD in 2011 and selections performed in 2015 at the Alba Music Festival in Italy. Mr. Jenkins received his M.M. in collaborative piano from the University of Maryland, College Park and his B.M. in piano performance from Stetson University.

James Jenkins is an active collaborative pianist, vocal coach, and composer. A former resident of the Washington, DC area, James has performed in many of Washington’s most prestigious venues, including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Arts Club of Washington, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, the Embassy of Luxembourg, the Strathmore Mansion, and the Washington National Cathedral. He was also the pianist for the award-winning Thomas Circle Singers from 2007-2012, during which they premiered works by American composers Gwyneth Walker and Blake Henson. From 2012 to 2015, as a resident of central Ohio, James worked with numerous professional organizations including Opera Columbus, Opera Project Columbus, the Carpe Diem String Quartet and Columbus Dance Theatre, and was a freelance pianist and vocal coach at The Ohio State University and a staff accompanist for Ohio Wesleyan University. During the summer of 2015 he was an accompanist and vocal coach at Härnösand Opera Academy and Festival in Härnösand, Sweden, where he had the pleasure of accompanying the legendary tenor George Shirley in recital. During the summers of 2007-2009 he accompanied and assisted distinguished artists and conductors in workshops at Westminster Choir College, including singers Julianne Baird and Elem Eley, and conductors James Jordan, Weston Noble, Joe Miller and Bruce Chamberlain.

James especially enjoys composing art song. His song set The Living Root was premiered at historic St Margaret’s Church in Annapolis, MD in 2011 and selections performed in 2015 at the Alba Music Festival in Italy. Mr. Jenkins received his M.M. in collaborative piano from the University of Maryland, College Park and his B.M. in piano performance from Stetson University.

The Viennese pianist Ekaterina Nokkert studied at the Conservatory of Vienna with Univ.-Prof. Thomas Kreuzberger (piano) and with Carolyn Hague, Angelika Kirchschlager and Birgid Steinberger (collaborative piano and vocal coaching). She has performed in Austria, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, both as a soloist and collaborative artist. Ekaterina Nokkert is a laureate of several competitions in the field of art song (Lied), such as the International Competition for duos in Sofia and the A. Dvorak competition in the Czech Republic. In 2015 she released a CD with soprano Katrin Targo, with songs by H. Wolf, A. Berg and S. Barber. Since 2015, she works as a musical director for „Oper in der Krypta“, rehearsing and performing operas. After a well-received performance series of Puccini ́ s „Madama Butterfly“ her next opera projects include productions of Bellini ́s „I Puritani“, Gounod ́s „Romeo et Juliette“ and a cycle of Mozart ́s three Da Ponte Operas „Don Giovanni“, „Cosi fan tutte“ and „Le nozze di Figaro“. In addition to her work as a performer, Ekaterina Nokkert is a dedicated teacher and coach, currently teaching piano and chamber music at the Prayner conservatory in Vienna.

Emily Hindrichs The American soprano Emily Hindrichs holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Exeter and the New England Conservatory and completed her musical formation as a member of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program. Hindrichs is a recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Award, the winner of the Les Azuriales Opera Competition in France, and earned a second place in the Washington International Competition.

Emily Hindrichs' Queen of the Night blazed her way like a comet through the role’s high tessitura, putting all those tricky triplets in the second part of ‚Der Hölle Rache‘ perfectly in place. (Opera News)

In the season 2013/14, the young soprano joined the ensemble of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, performing Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), Oscar (Un

ballo in maschera, Le Feu (L’enfant et les sortilèges), the title role in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol and Costanza in Riccardo Primo. In autumn 2013 she made her London concert debut at the Barbican Centre, singing Reinhold Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and sang Königin der Nacht at the Opera Frankfurt. Her signature role Königin der Nacht has taken her to debuts with English National Opera, the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Seattle Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, and New Orleans Opera. Role debuts in past seasons include Micaela in Carmen, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with Opéra Théâtre de St. Étienne in France, and Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Connecticut Early Music Festival.

Emily Hindrichs geläufiger, farbenreicher Koloratursopran bewältigte Strawinskys tückische Läufe mit verblüffender Natürlichkeit – eine menschliche Nachtigall. (DIE WELT) [Emily Hindrich's familiar, colorful coloratura soprano managed Stravinsky's treacherous runs with amazing naturalness - a human nightingale.” (DIE WELT)] As an active concert and recital artist, she recently sang with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with the International Bachakademie Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling, the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall and the Seattle Symphony. With the beginning of the season 2015/16, Emily Hindrichs is a member of the ensemble of the Opera Cologne, where she is singing amongst others Musetta, Teresa, and Adela in the world premiere of Tree of Codes. Plans for the season 16-17 include amongst others her debuts as Cunégonde (Candide) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), and a guest appearance at the HELLERAU Tonlagen Festival with Ensemble Musikfabrik.

American baritone Raymond Ayers has performed at theaters across the U.S. and Europe, accumulating a repertoire of over 75 roles. Recently he was seen performing: DER FERNE KLANG (Graf/Schauspieler) at Nationaltheater Mannheim with GMD Dan Ettinger, LA BOHEME (Marcello) at Theater Bremen directed by Benedikt von Peter, DON CARLO (Rodrigo) at Theater Hagen directed by Philipp Kochheim, Händel’s MESSIAH with Laurent Gendre conducting at the Musique Baroque en Avignon as well as performances with Radio Festival Montpellier singing CARMINA BURANA, which was broadcast on French National Radio. Other notable performances include IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Barber) with Theater Bonn, LA TRAVIATA (Germont) with Staatstheater Braunschweig and Bernstein’s MASS (Celebrant) with the Minnesota Orchestra. This fall Mr. Ayers continues as leading baritone at Germany’s Nationaltheater Mannheim. There he will be featured in the World Premier of GOLEM (Athansius) by Bernhard Lang as well as: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Figaro), TURANDOT (Ping), DIE LUSTIGE WITWE (Danilo), DER FERNE KLANG (Graf/Schauspieler), DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Papageno), ALCESTE (Hercules/Apollo), LA BOHEME (Schaunard) and as baritone soloist in CARMINA BURANA. Past operas include: FALSTAFF (Ford), L’ELISIR

D’AMORE (Belcore), DIE LIEBE ZU DREI ORANGEN (Pantalone), FREISCHÜTZ (Ottokar) and PAGLIACCI (Silvio). Having a natural affinity and ability for modern music, Mr. Ayers has been involved with a number of productions and premiers in this genre: The German Premier of SELMA JEZKOVA - DANCER IN THE DARK (Bill Houston), the European Premier of SALSI PUEDES (Chucho), the World Premier of THE STAR GATHERER (Mega the Baker) and the New York Premier of THE SEAGULL (Constantine). Others include: NIXON IN CHINA (Chou En-lai), LOLA RENNT (Manni), THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Lord Henry Wotton) and Bernstein’s MASS (Celebrant). Mr. Ayers has been heard with the Minnesota Orchestra having collaborated with esteemed music director Osmo Vänskä and acclaimed conductor Andrew Litton. He was most recently seen with the orchestra in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Papageno). He shared the stage with renowned artists Deborah Voigt, Carl Tanner and Greer Grimsley singing TOSCA (Angelotti), and was also heard at Sommerfest in the Orchestra’s production of LA BOHEME (Marcello) with James Valenti and Maureen O’Flynn. He has appeared twice as the Father in their charming holiday production of HANSEL AND GRETEL and lead a “cast of thousands” in Bernstein’s MASS (Celebrant) to critical acclaim. Mr. Ayers holds degrees from Westminster Choir College (BM) and Manhattan School of Music (MM). He is recorded on both Albany Records (The Seagull) and Afka labels (as oboist), and has

The Faculty—Guest Artists

Dr. Jean-Ronald LaFond, tenor (Adminsistrator/Voice Teacher) is a singer and international voice teacher with studios in New York, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Germany and several locations

in Sweden. He holds the DMA and MM degrees from the University of Michigan and the BM degree from Westminster Choir College. He has presented over 300 recital programs, nearly 40 operatic roles and many oratorio and or concerts throughout the world. He speaks eight

languages and sings in more than a dozen. Dr. LaFond taught at the University level for 11 years and has written extensively about pedagogy and interpretation. His students sing in A houses in

Europe and in the United States. He established the philosophy of Kashu-do (歌⼿手道): The Way of the Singer, a process designed to train the total singer. www.kashudo.com . He is a member of the Opera Studio team of teachers at Kapellsberg Musiklinje of Härnösands

Folkhögskola.

Helén Lundquist-Dahlén (Administrator/Choral Director) is the headmaster of Music, Opera and Dance educations at Härnösands folkhögskola. She is a choir instructor, conductor, and conducting teacher and has studied under professor Erik Westberg and professor Eric Ericsson among others. She is a major force and motor in the music scene in Mid-Sweden with concert, opera and festival productions and is co-founder of Courthouse Music.

The Faculty

Application and Registration: To apply, please visit: http://www.kashudo.com/opera-academy-2016 and follow directions (application fee: 400 SEK). Once accepted, students will receive information about payment and confirming their participation in the course.

Application Deadline: 15 April 2017 or until all spots are filled.

Room: All participants will reside in student dormitories with in-room bathrooms  (double occupancy 2800 SEK, or single occupancy 4200 SEK for 14 nights) equipped with two communal kitchens per floor (in case students want to prepare their own meals).

Board: Students have the option of buying their own food and cooking in their apartments or may opt for the campus food service (2 meals per day--Lunch and Supper  2575 SEK).  Breakfast is optional for 615 SEK. Friday and Saturday 23-24 June is Midsummer in Sweden.  Those days will be free. The campus restaurant will be closed.  Participants will provide their won meals on those days.   In case of early arrival or late departure, extra nights may be booked for 350 SEK per night (single room) or 250 SEK per night (double room) including breakfast.

Tuition: The 2-week Academy costs 8.000 SEK

Travel to Härnösand: By car or by bus: The E4 travels from south to north through the coastal parts which makes it easy to reach Härnösand by car or by bus. Daily busses from Stockholm with http://www.ybuss.se. The busses are of a high standard.

 By train http://www.sj.se

 By air Sundsvall-Timrå Airport is at a 20 minutes distance from Härnösand. There are direct flights from Stockholm-Arlanda, Stockholm-Bromma and Gothenberg-Landvetter Aiports. Those traveling from outside of Sweden should arrive at one of those main airports and then connect to Sundsvall-Timrå.

Contact: Dr. Jean-Ronald LaFond: kashudosv@gmail.com Helén Lundqvist-Dahlén: helen.lundquist@hfs.se

“COME TO HÄRNÖSAND AND DISCOVER YOUR OPERATIC POTENTIAL”

Registration Accommodations Fees and TravelWho should apply: The course is open to 30-40 singers 6-9 pianists will be selected to further their skills as répétiteurs and Lied-pianists with our professional, high level faculty of keyboard artists.

Preparation: Singers must be able to read music and able to learn their own notes. It is understood that students will come with personal and assigned repertoire already learned on the day of arrival. Repertoire will be assigned two months in advance or as soon as possible after the student has been accepted to the program. Instrumentalists will have strong technical and sigh-reading proficiencies and will be able to address the demands of the chosen course of study. Performance opportunities: There will be the opportunity to perform on daily noon-time concerts, master classes and recitals as well as a final operatic scenes program. Concert locations include locations both on the Kapellsberg Campus and in the town of Härnösand.

Enjoying Härnösand and the High Coast (Höga Kusten): The Höga Kusten area is idyllic during the summer and offers many outdoor activities including boat trips, barbecues on the beach all under 24 hour sunlight. In the middle of summer one can literally read a book to natural daylight throughout the day. The center of Härnösand boasts excellent cafés and eateries.