米里亚姆恰尼

College 教师:

Vocal Arts: Related Studies: Performance Techniques, Vocal Literature
Opera Theatre: Vocal Coaching

米里亚姆恰尼 has been an assistant conductor/pianist at many of the major festivals 和 regional opera companies in the U.S., including Glimmerglass Opera, Chautauqua Opera, the Banff Festival (Canada), Opera Company of Philadelphia, Florida Gr和 Opera, New Orleans Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, 和 Connecticut Opera. She was assistant conductor to Gerard Schwarz 和 Leopold Hager for the Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as functioning as casting consultant 和 playing continuo in performance. She has performed with Lauren Flanigan, André Solomon-Glover, 保罗•林, 布伦达·哈里斯, 马克·古尔德, 帕梅拉南, 和 Jacque Trussel 和 participated in master classes given by Marilyn Horne, Renata斯哥图, 玛丽莉娜叶, 和 Stephen Wadsworth. A life-long champion of contemporary opera, she prepared premieres by Lee Hoiby, 威廉·舒曼, 雅各Druckman, 西娅马斯格雷夫, 托拜厄斯选择器, 和 Ricky Ian Gordon, as well as preparing 和 performing workshops of new works by Viviane Fine, 珍妮丝哈默尔, 和 Susan Botti for American Opera Projects. As music director in theater, Ms. Charney toured India with The Wooster Group 和 was instrumental in the development of new music-theater pieces with Elizabeth LeCompte 和 the late Spalding Gray. She toured Europe with Elizabeth Swados’ company 和 music-directed for NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing. She has performed in venues ranging from Alice Tully Hall to Le Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels to the Amphitheatre at the Chautauqua Institution.

Ms. Charney received a National Opera Institute grant 和 is a former president of the National Association of Accompanists 和 Coaches. She has been on the faculties of Juilliard, the University of Connecticut, 和 Goddard College, 和 was Head Coach at the Hartt School of Music for 13 years. 目前, she is Adjunct Artist in Music at Vassar College, directing the Opera Workshop with renowned counter-tenor Drew Minter, 和 is a member of the piano faculty. 自1996年起. Charney has been a faculty member in the Music History 和 Voice departments at Manhattan School of Music, where she also created 和 directs the Contemporary Opera Ensemble. She was the official pianist for the Elardo International Opera Competition, before its recent move to Brussels. Ms. Charney received her BA in Music with honors from Br和eis University, completing further study at Wesleyan University, Columbia University, 和 the Dalcroze School of Music. Her teachers have included Dorothy Taubman, 埃德娜Gol和sky, Kyriena Siloti, 和 Martin Canon for piano; Kenneth Cooper 和 Paul Echols for harpsichord; Joan Dornemann, 马丁Isepp, 和 Margaret Singer for coaching 和 accompanying; Robert Koff for chamber music studies; 和 Paul Nadler, Catherine MacDonald, 和 James Olsen for conducting studies.

Ms. Charney maintains an active coaching studio in Manhattan where she makes her home with her husb和, photographer Roger Maltby, 他们的儿子, formerly a child soloist with New York City Opera, now a recent graduate of Williams College.