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Soprano Jacquelyn Familant has just been named winner
of the 2010 Classical Singer Convention. Ms. Familant enjoys an
international career that spans the genres of opera, oratorio
and chamber music. The lyric soprano began her career with the
Staatsoper Stuttgart performing the roles of Sandman and Dew Fairy
in Haensel und Gretel, Aloysia in Masaniello furioso,
Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, & Euridice in L'Orfeo.
Other international opera credits include Eurydice in Orphée
et Eurydice with the Festival Lyrique-en-Mer, Ilia in Idomeneo,
Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Modus Opera, and Blanche de
la Force in Les Dialogues des Carmelites. Ms. Familant
has won numerous awards and scholarships including a prize in
the 2006 Charles A. Lynam Vocal Competition. This gifted young
performer was also honored in Europe as a Star of Tomorrow by
the ARTE Film and Broadcasting Network and featured in an international
television portrait .
Equally at home on the recital stage, Jacquelyn
Familant is known for her commitment to exploring and performing
a vast array of concert repertoire. Ms. Familant has performed
in concert with the American Modern Ensemble, the American Music
Festival, Summer Stars of Ocean Grove, Forecast New Music, The
Sapphire Ensemble, Borderless Song, Modus Opera, Staatsoper Stuttgart,
Festival Lyrique-en-Mer, the Vermont Festival of the Arts, and
the Chamber Music Society of Philadelphia. In the genre of oratorio,
Ms. Familant has sung as the soprano soloist in Cameron-Wolfe’s
A Measure of Love and Silence, Mozart’s Requiem,
Coronation Mass, & Vesperae Solennes de Domenica, as
well as Handel’s Messiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana,
Vivaldi’s Gloria, Faure’s Requiem, and
the Rutter Requiem. The soprano has a particular affinity
for performing modern composition and has collaborated with such
composers as Ned Rorem, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Demetrius Spaneas,
Michael Sydney Timpson, and James Barry. Devoted to the preservation
and continuation of the classical tradition, Ms. Familant regularly
performs contemporary repertoire and has had several pieces written
for her including Timpson’s Four Poems of Dorothy Parker
and Donald St. Pierre’s Songs on the Poems of e.e. cummings.
Recently, Ms. Familant collaborated with composer/performer Demetrius
Spaneas to create and perform Moonlight of Lost Dreams:
a song cycle based on the soprano’s own poetry.
Upcoming engagements for the soprano include the
Fall release of the commercial recording of Paul Salerni’s
opera Tony Caruso’s Final Broadcast on the Naxos label
in which she sang the role of The Intern. This September, Ms.
Familant looks forward to creating the role of Millie in the world
premiere of Salerni’s The Life and Loves of Joe Coogan
with Lehigh Valley Opera.
Ms. Familant also enjoys success as a commercial
model, actress and voice-over artist: she has appeared internationally
in print, television, radio and film. A passionate advocate for
music education, Ms. Familant also maintains a private voice studio
and is a frequent visiting lecturer at select voice programs around
the world.
Jacquelyn Familant was born in Newport News, Virginia
and grew up in Clearwater, Florida. She holds a Bachelor of Music
degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music
degree from the Curtis Institute of Music.
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