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Soprano who
was a member of The Harvard University Choir and appeared on their yuletide
offering, Christmas in the Busch.
In November
1999, she was double-cast as Cupid and Hypsipyle
in the Harvard Early Music Society’s production of Pier Francesco Cavalli’s Giasone. She
was the Music Director of the orchestra in the Harvard-Radcliffe G & S
Players’ mounting of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience in the spring of 2002. Concomitantly, she was responsible
for editing The WHRB Program Guide, which was issued five times each year
by Harvard Radio Broadcasting.
In the new
millennium, she has been active in the Augustana
Lutheran Church in Washington, D.C.
She performed in A Consort of Musical Delights, in tandem with the Augustana Lutheran Church Choir, on 18th
October 2009. In the winter of
2009, she departed the nation’s capitol and relocated to Boston,
Massachusetts.
For an audio
sample of Karoun’s voice, check out the ionarts link below and you can hear her singing “Piu m’affligge piu disprezzo” from the
opera, Il Trionfo
di Camilla regina de Volsci.
The Harvard University Choir recordings
Adeste
Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)
Pro Organo CD 7134 (Christmas
in the Busch)
Conductor – Murray Forbes Somerville
Harvard
Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Director – Robert Mealy
The Harvard
Brass
Soprano – Awet Andemicael
Bass – Mark Risinger
Organists – Erica Johnson and Edward Jones
Sources:
- http://jean-claude.brenac.pagesperso-orange.fr/CAVALLI_GIASONE.htm
- http://www.negass.org/bray/pdf/May02Bray.pdf
- http://www.whrb.org/pg/NovDec2002.pdf
- http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/05/ionarts-in-concert.html
- http://www.augustanadc.info/pdf-files/Consort%20Flier.pdf
- http://www.augustanadc.info/pdf-files/novdec-2009-newsletter.pdf
- Liner notes: Christmas in the Busch
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