This event is open to the public and no tickets are required for attendance.

Guest Artists visit SFCM to share their expertise with student musicians.

Program

Giuseppe Verdi: "Tutto parea sorridere" 
     from Il Corsaro
Vicente Alvarez, tenor 

Charles Gounod: "Ah! Je veux vivre"
     from Roméo et Juliette
Katie Ivie , soprano

Jules Massenet: "Va, laisse couler mes larmes"
     from Werther
Lanie Anthan, mezzo soprano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Non più andrai" / "Hai gia vinta la cause"*
    from Le nozze di Figaro
Charles McGregor, baritone
Elijah Cineas, *alternate baritone

Artists

Jeremy Reger, Head of Music Central City Opera Festival; Co-chair, Voice + Opera + Musical Theatre and Assoc. Professor of Vocal Coaching at University of Colorado Boulder, piano

Jeremy Reger maintains an active performing, teaching and musical coaching career. Currently serving as the Head of Music at Central City Opera, he has also served on the music staff at Virginia Opera, Opera Steamboat, Eugene Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, Mill City Opera, Central City Opera, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Opera. He has song recordings with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung and baritone Andrew Garland. As an orchestral pianist, he has performed with the Virginia Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, Williamsburg Symphony, Carmel Symphony, Terre Haute Symphony and Aspen Festival Orchestra. 

Prior to CU Boulder, Reger taught at the Music Academy of the West, Christopher Newport University and at Indiana University's Jacob’s School of Music. A strong advocate of new opera, Reger has participated in workshops for composers Damien Geter, Jake Heggie, Tom Cipullo, Ricky Ian Gordon, Kevin Putz and Mark Adamo. 

Reger earned degrees from the Crane School of Music, Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the University of Michigan, studying with Martin Katz.