 Mikael Eliasen
Artistic Director of the Curtis Opera Theatre, Opera and Voice Coach
The Hirsig Family Head-of-Department Chair in Vocal Studies
Danish-born coach and accompanist Mr. Eliasen received his early training in Copenhagen, Montreal, and Vienna. He has collaborated with numerous singers in recital worldwide, including Robert Merrill, Tom Krause, John Shirley-Quirk, Elly Ameling, Edith Mathis, Florence Quivar, Mira Zakai, Sarah Walker, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, and Curtis alumni Theodor Uppman, Michael Schade, and Rinat Shaham. He has recorded for Albany Records, CBC, Hilversum Radio, Polish State Radio, Kol Israel, Irish Radio and Television, London Records, MHS, and Supraphon. Mr. Eliasen has given master classes at Aix-en-Provence, the Shanghai Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), Jerusalem Music Center, and National Opera of Prague. He has a long association with the young-artist programs at the Royal Danish Opera and the Opera Studio of Amsterdam. In the United States, he works regularly at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. Mr. Eliasen was music director of the San Francisco Opera Center from 1994 to 1996 and artistic director of the European Center for Opera and Vocal Art in Belgium from 1984 to 1994. For twenty years he has taught at Chautauqua's Voice Program during the summers. Mr. Eliasen joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1986 and became the head of the department in 1988.
Lisa Keller
Opera and Voice Coach
Ms. Keller was educated at Catholic University and the Brevard Music Center summer program, receiving a degree in piano performance, summa cum laude. She received her master's degree with the same distinction from Duquesne University, where she studied with Metropolitan Opera coach Warren Jones. Upon finishing her graduate work, Ms. Keller was invited by Pittsburgh Opera general director Tito Capobianco to join the company as principal répétiteur, as well as coach and accompanist for its young artist program. She later served as pianist and vocal coach for the Hartt School of Music, Connecticut Concert Opera, and West Chester University School of Music. Ms. Keller has studied with Maurizio Arena and served as vocal coach for the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera program in Oderzo, Italy. She serves on the music faculties of the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Colorado, New Jersey Opera Theater, and Wexford Festival Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Santa Fe Opera. Ms. Keller joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2004.
Susan Nowicki
Opera and Voice Coach
Ms. Nowicki has performed throughout the United States as a soloist and in collaboration with prominent singers and instrumentalists, and she regularly performs with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition she has toured with Community Concerts under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management, Inc. and has served on the music staffs of the Philadelphia Singers, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Opera Festival of New Jersey. An active member of the Network for New Music ensemble, she has recorded contemporary music for the Albany, Capstone, De Haske, and North-South labels. Ms. Nowicki teaches privately in Philadelphia and in Lawrenceville, N.J., and was a faculty member of the Dorothy Taubman Institute of Piano from 1997 to 2002. She is an instructor and clinician for the Well-Balanced Pianist programs (http://wellbalancedpianist.com). Ms. Nowicki joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1987.
Danielle Orlando
Principal Opera Coach
Ms. Orlando collaborated with Luciano Pavarotti as accompanist, judge, and artistic coordinator for all of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competitions. She spent nine seasons working with Gian Carlo Menotti for the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, as the artistic coordinator and coach for the operas, in addition to editing several of his compositions and performing with the festival. Ms. Orlando has served on the music staffs of many opera companies, festivals, and young-artist programs, including the Metropolitan Opera; Washington National Opera (where she collaborated with Plácido Domingo); Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; Michigan Opera Theatre; Opera Company of Philadelphia (artistic administrator); Pittsburgh Opera; Wolf Trap Opera Company; Festival dei Due Mondi in Charleston, S.C.; American Institute of Music Studies in Graz, Austria; European Center for Opera and Vocal Arts in Belgium; Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera; Portland Opera Performing Institute; New Jersey Opera Theater; and Arizona Opera. She is also a guest judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She recently added Oberlin in Italy and the Florence Voice Seminar to her summer engagements and performed in the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland. She will join the Savonlinna Festival this summer as an addition to their music staff. Ms. Orlando, who is a master vocal coach at the Academy of Vocal Arts, joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1986.
Joan Patenaude-Yarnell
Voice
Ms. Patenaude-Yarnell has sung many of the lyric-coloratura soprano roles throughout North America (New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera, among others) and with many leading conductors of our time (Charles Mackerras, Seiji Ozawa, Julius Rudel, Barry Tuckewell). She is heard on Vanguard Records, Musical Heritage Society, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation labels. Her students are currently performing with the major international opera houses (including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden Opera, Salzburg Festival, Deutsche Oper, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, New York City Opera). Several are recent winners at major voice competitions both in New York (Met Opera National Council Auditions, George London Awards, Lissner Foundation, Opera Index, Richard Tucker Foundation, Puccini Awards) as well as internationally (Bevedere Awards, Germany; Canada Council Awards; Houston Grand Opera). Ms. Patenaude-Yarnell became a member of the voice faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in 1998 and joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1996.
 Donald St. Pierre
Opera and Voice Coach
Mr. St. Pierre was associated with the Skylight Opera Theatre as music director from 1978 to 1990. He conducted more than fifty productions there, from Monteverdi's IL CORONAZIONE DI POPPEA to Stephen Oliver's MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN (American premiere). He was keyboard player of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra until 1978. In 1986 he served as chorus master at the Vienna State Opera for Leonard Bernstein's QUIET PLACE (recorded by DGG and conducted by the composer). As a recital accompanist, Mr. St. Pierre has appeared at such venues as New York's Lincoln Center, London's Wigmore Hall and Almeida Theatre, and Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet, as well as at the Tanglewood, Santa Fe Chamber Music, Bowdoin, Bard, and Grand Teton music festivals. He is one of the contributing composers to the AIDS QUILT SONGBOOK, published by Boosey & Hawkes and recorded on the Harmonia Mundi label. Mr. St. Pierre joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1990.
Corradina Caporello
Italian Diction
Corradina Caporello, born in Rome, received a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. from Queens College, and an M.Ph. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
She has taught Italian language and literature at Columbia University, John Jay College, Queens College, Hofstra University, and C. W. Post campus, Long Island University. She is the author of The Boccaccian Novella: Creation and Waning of a Genre.
Dr. Caporello, a member of the Italian Honor Society, trained with Evelina Colorni. She has coached Italian operas in the United States, Canada, Italy, Israel, and China and has taught master classes in Taiwan, Japan, and Mexico, as well as in the United States.
She has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1984. Dr. Caporello joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1995.
Charles Conwell Stage Combat
Charles Conwell is a professor of theater at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he has taught stage combat for twenty-four years. He has directed fights for Opera Delaware, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
He is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors. Mr. Conwell joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1997.
Bénédicte Jourdois
Opera and Voice Coach
A graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, Bénédicte Jourdois is the principal pianist at Opera Philadelphia.
Ms. Jourdois has worked at the Chautauqua Institution summer program since 2008, at the Castleton Festival since 2011, and at the Spoleto Festival USA from 2011 to 2013. She has performed as a soloist and a collaborative pianist in numerous venues in Europe and the United States, including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center; and has worked at Pittsburgh Opera and Houston Grand Opera. Born in Paris, she holds degrees from the Conservatoire National de Région de Saint-Maur, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, Mannes College, and the Juilliard School.
Ms. Jourdois joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2012 and also teaches at the Manhattan School of Music.
Marlena Kleinman Malas Voice
An internationally renowned recitalist, Marlena Kleinman Malas graduated from the voice program of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1960. She has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Studio and has been affiliated with opera companies in New York City, Santa Fe, Boston, Miami, Washington, D.C., and Milwaukee.
Ms. Malas has been a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra and has appeared at the Marlboro, Casals, and Ravinia festivals. She is chair of the voice department at the Chautauqua Institution and a faculty member of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Malas has given master classes in connection with the Metropolitan Opera and at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Castleton Festival in Virginia, Pittsburgh Opera’s young artists program, Boston University, Blossom Music Festival, San Francisco Opera Center, Santa Fe Opera, European Center for Opera and Vocal Arts in Brussels, Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, and (with Joan Sutherland and Luigi Alva) Australian Opera in Sydney. She is a consultant to the Canadian Opera Center; Fletcher Opera Institute, where she has given master classes; and Washington Opera Young Artist Program, where she is also a teacher.
Ms. Malas joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1986 and will be a voice faculty member at the Young Artist Voice Program as part of Curtis Summerfest 2016.
Ghenady Meirson Russian Repertoire Coach
Ghenady MeirsonBorn in Odessa, Ukraine, Ghenady Meirson graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and the Curtis Institute of Music ('81, '84), where he studied piano with Seymour Lipkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski and accompanying with Vladimir Sokoloff.
In 1982 he wrote a singer's handbook entitled Do Sing in Russian and began to specialize in Russian vocal repertoire. He has coached countless artists for opera, oratorio, recitals, and recordings, and helped such organizations as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Singers, and Mendelssohn Club Chorus.
In 1996 Mr. Meirson founded PrivateLessons.com, a membership-based network that connects the public with independent music teachers. In 2011, he founded Russian Opera Workshop, an independent summer training program for aspiring and professional opera singers.
Also a faculty member of the Academy of Vocal Arts, Mr. Meirson joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1990.
Reese Revak
Vocal Studies Accompanist
Reese Revak received his bachelor's degree in music composition from Temple University in addition to taking graduate studies in piano accompanying and opera coaching.
Mr. Revak has worked at the Castleton Summer Music Festival in Virginia under the direction of Lorin Maazel; the International Institute of Vocal Arts in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and International Opera Theater in Citta della Pieve, Italy.
Mr. Revak is music director and co-founder of the Philadelphia Opera Collective and co-founder of the Philadelphia Composers’ Ink salon series. In September 2013, the Opera Collective premiered his original work entitled Opera Macabre, based on works by Edgar Allan Poe.
Mr. Revak joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2012.
Ulrike Shapiro German Diction
Ulrike Shapiro, a native of Celle, Germany, has coached numerous productions at the Opera Company of Philadelphia, in addition to serving as assistant stage director on productions there and at Glimmerglass Opera, Seattle Opera, and L'Opera de Monte Carlo.
She has taught German Lieder at the Peabody Conservatory, where she received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, as well as a graduate performance diploma in voice. Her teachers include Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Mark Markham, Thomas Grubb, and Webb Wiggins.
Ms. Shapiro joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2001.
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