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Vanessa Jump Nelson
has been a featured soloist with the Oregon Symphony Pops Orchestra,
Columbia Chorale of Oregon, Portland Symphonic Choir, and most recently
the I-Sing Community Chorus with which she toured Spain in summer of
2005 and later that year sang the soprano solo for the world premiere
performance of Steve Galvan's new composition "The Risk of Birth." A
first place winner of the American Mothers Incorporated Oregon State
Vocal Competition, she was also featured sacred soloist for the 2001
Mayors Prayer Breakfast of Washington County, and has been featured jazz
vocal artist at the Westside Jazz Jam. A former member of the Trinity
Chamber Singers and the David York Ensemble, she has held the position of
soprano soloist at a variety of churches throughout the Portland area.
While Choral Director at St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, she created
and maintained St. Gabriel's Concert Series, a fundraising endeavor
that resulted in the purchase of a Boston grand piano from Sherman Clay.
Ms. Nelson attended Mt. Hood Community College, received her Bachelor of
Arts degree in Music from Portland State University, and is an alumnus
of Bel Canto Northwest. Her Master Class experiences have included
those of Julianne Baird and Christopher Mattaliano, and she has been
mentored by Ruth Dobson, David Jimerson, Gwen Leonard, Richard Poppino,
and Hal Malcolm. Ms. Nelson teaches privately in Portland, recently
chaired the Portland District OMTA Voice Teachers Forum (2007-9), is
a member the OMTA Collaborative Artist Committee, and is adjunct voice
faculty at Portland Community College and Mt. Hood Community College.
A certificated airman since 1979, she is also a member of the Ninety-Nines
international organization of women pilots, the Northwest Antique Airplane
Club, and the Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance.
Email: vanessa@duelinsopranos.com
Home: www.vanessajumpnelson.com
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April Brookins Duvic
received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Whitman College and earned her Masters of Science in
Teaching from Portland State University. Since joining the Vancouver, Washington staff
at Clark College in 1990, she has been a three-time nominee of the Exceptional
Faculty Award, the college’s highest recognition for academic excellence, and
received the award in 2001. She teaches
Applied Voice, Music Education, and Music Appreciation and is director of the
acclaimed Clark College Women’s Choral Ensemble, which she has directed
on tour in China, Mexico, Canada, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest. Ms. Duvic serves as an
adjudicator and clinician at both solo vocal and choral festivals in Oregon and
Washington. She is currently the Two-Year College Repertoire and Standards Chairperson
for the NW Division of ACDA. She has received
recognition from the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) as the teacher
of the 2001 and 2003 National Winners of the MTNA High School Voice
Competition. Ms. Duvic was a member of
the Leyden Singers, the Oregon Symphony’s Vocal Pops ensemble, has been
featured as a vocal soloist with the Clark College Orchestra and, most
recently, a guest soloist with the Clark College Concert Choir. A
frequent recitalist, she recently performed in concert with several
instrumentalists, including songs with harp, violin, and trumpet, in a benefit
recital for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Active in musical theatre at Clark College and in the Vancouver area,
she has received awards for her musical direction of Evita and West
Side Story, and Anything Goes.
Her vocal instructors have included Gwen Leonard, Susan McBerry, Winnifred
Ringhoffer, and Richard Miller in workshop settings.
Email: april@duelinsopranos.com
Home: www.aprilbrookinsduvic.com
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Guest Artists
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Paulette Hanchett (pianist)
received her music education at Pacific Union College in California in
piano performance under the direction of Dr. Aileen James. In
addition, she also studied under Dr. Roger Nyquist, professor of organ
performance at the University of Santa Clara. Her career emphasis
is in classical, sacred and gospel music. For the past 30 years
she has performed in concert halls and auditoriums before audiences
coast-to-coast in such cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami,
Orlando, Atlanta and Portland, Oregon. Her musical experience
includes guest appearances on national television and radio. As a
recording artist and musical consultant, she has advised various
musicians on vocal and instrumental arrangements. Today Mrs.
Hanchett teaches from her private piano studio in Northwest Portland
and is the staff organist and pianist for St. Gabriel’s Church, a
position she has held since 1998.
Email: paulette@duelinsopranos.com
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Mary Dibbern (pianist) has
resided in France since 1978. She is appreciated as an accompanist and
vocal coach for operatic productions, recordings, recitals and
competitions.
Mary Dibbern works
internationally as a free-lance vocal coach and accompanist. She is a
frequent guest at the Théâtre
des Champs-Elysées, Centre de Formation Lyrique of the Opéra
National de Paris as well as on the main stage of the Opéra National de
Paris and at the operas of Nice, Bordeaux, Lyons, TMP-Châtelet, the
Opéra-Comique, the Opera of Toulouse, the Festival de Radio France
& de Montpellier Languedoc-Rousillon, the Théâtre Municipal de
Lausanne (Switzerland), the Círculo Portuense de Opera (Oporto), the Hawai’i Opera Theatre and
the Shanghai Opera House (PRC). She was in charge of musical and language
preparation for the first French-language productions in China of
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
and Bizet’s Carmen.
She has worked on the
musical preparation of French, Italian and German operas and recordings
in close collaboration with the world’s finest conductors. She has
accompanied vocal recitals in the USA, Europe and Japan—notably at La
Scala, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Opéra-Comique, Radio France
and the Opéra Royal de Versailles. Her recital recordings include
Mélodies de Jacques Leguerney
released by Claves (Switzerland), a
CD produced to honor the composer’s 90th birthday celebration in Paris
and which won the Grand Prix du Disque; Offenbach au Menu
on the Maguelonelabel and
Mélodies de Jacques Leguerney,
Vols. I and II (LPs) for Harmonia Mundi France.
After the success of her world premier recordings of Leguerney’s songs, she was chosen to edit
eight volumes of the composer’s previously unpublished mélodies for Editions Max Eschig (Paris).
She is the author of Tales of Hoffmann: Performance
Guide and Carmen:
Performance Guide for Pendragon
Press, she has also written Interpreting
the Songs of Jacques Leguerney: A Guide for Study and Performance
in collaboration with Carol
Kimball and Patrick Choukroun.
(see Ms. Dibbern's
website at www.mary-dibbern.com for more information)
Email:MaryDibbern@aol.com
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Viorel
Badiceanu
(flute) received his Masters Degree from the Transylvania University of
Brasov, Romania, in 1995, specializing in Performing and
Teaching. For eleven years he was Principal Flute for Opera
Theatre of Brasov, Romania, and provided flute and chamber music
instruction for Art High School of Brasov, Romania. The
winner of
11 musical competitions, he has given over 70 recitals in the United
States (Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Beaverton, Oregon City) and the
largest cities of Romania (Bucharest, Cluj, Brasov, Timisoara, Iasi,
Ploiesti). He has performed on Romanian Radio and Television
(live shows and recordings), and in over 400 chamber music concerts in
Romania and Austria. He has given repeat performances on
extended
tours in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, and
Holland. He was soloist in many symphonic concerts. In
Romania, he
also organized public and educational concerts and flute
competitions. In 1997 he moved to the United States, where he
is
Liturgical Flautist for St. James Catholic Church in Vancouver,
Washington, and contract flautist for various recitals and chamber
performances. Starting with 2000, he is Musical Director
assistant
for “Descent of The Holy Spirit Church”, assisting the Music Director
in conducting, preparing and providing the music for Liturgies and
other religious services, and in the choral concerts organized at
church and in greater Portland area. He also follows his twenty-five
years teaching vocation, teaching flute and piano in his studio in
Vancouver.
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Rebecca Olson
(flute) received her Bachelor of Music and her Master of Music from
Central Washington University, where she studied with Hal
Ott.
She currently has flute studios in Boring, Oregon and Vancouver,
Washington, and performs with the Oregon Chamber Players, the Con
Grazia Woodwind Quintet, and the Vancouver Camerata trio. She
also plays with the Clark College Orchestra and substitutes with the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
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Brandon Nelson
(percussion)
is a Junior, Music Education Major and a Percussionist at the University of North Texas.
Originally of Portland, Oregon, he intends to eventually return to the Northwest to teach
secondary level music. Brandon maintains a summer percussion studio, performs as a
percussionist and drummer, and works as a consultant for marching and concert percussion
ensembles in the Portland Metropolitan Area.
He has marched in the UNT Green Brigade and two summers of Drum and Bugle corps,
performed as Principal Percussionist in the Metropolitan Youth Symphony of Portland,
and performed as Principal Percussionist in the UNT Concert Band. Brandon has also participated
in several of UNT's concert and ethnic percussion ensembles, Brass Band, and The 8 O'clock Steel Band.
Brandon's secondary instruments include French horn, piano, and voice, and he has studied
privately and performed on the clarinet, euphonium, and bassoon. Brandon is an inaugural member,
and holds the office of Chorister, of Mu Phi Epsilon, Phi Tau Chapter. He has served as a
committee member with North Texas Music Educators, and is affiliated with the Percussive Arts Society,
Texas Music Educators Association, and Collegiate Texas Music Educators.
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