| Biography/Resume:
Soprano Julia Pedigo has taught voice, vocal pedagogy, and song literature
on the music faculty of the Appalachian State University Hayes School
of Music since 1985 and is Coordinator of Voice. Dr. Pedigo earned the
Bachelor of Music Education degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, Master
of Music in Voice Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music, University
of Cincinnati and Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from the
University of Michigan where she studied with Leslie Guinn.
Dr. Pedigo has appeared throughout the United
States, Canada, and Europe as both soloist and recitalist, with such notable
artists as Kathleen Battle, Richard Margison, and Stephen Morscheck.
She has embraced all aspects of solo singing, including
opera, recital, concerts, oratorio, chamber music, and contemporary music.
She has performed a great deal of contemporary chamber music, including
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children, Carter's
Syringa with composer in residence, and Ginastera's Cantata para America
Magica among others.
Her operatic roles have included Alice Ford in
Verdi's Falstaff, Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Cherubino in Mozart's
The Marriage of Figaro and Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
under the direction of Robert Altman.
In addition to her many recitals, recent performances
have included Orff's Carmina Burana with the North Carolina Symphony and
for the ASU Centennial, Mozart's Great c minor Mass under the direction
of Carl St. Clair with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (NY) and Handel's Messiah
with the Naples Philharmonic (FL), Barber's Knoxville: Summer of
1915, Mark Camphouse's Symphony from Ivy Green, and Warren Benson's Shadow
Wood.
With a full complement of voices on the voice faculty,
Dr. Pedigo was instrumental in organizing APPropos!, the voice faculty
quintet with Dr. Rodney Reynerson accompanying. Since its inception
in 1995, APPropos! has entertained audiences throughout North Carolina
and has recorded a compact disc performing the songs and quartets written
specifically for the group by Dr. William G. Harbinson, Dean of Hayes School
of Music.
She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships
which have taken her for study and performance to the summer festivals
of Aspen, Blossom, and Banff Centre, Canada, as well as the Universita
Italiana per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy.
Dr. Pedigo's teachers and coaches include
Leslie Guinn, Sammy Scifres, Martin Katz, Elly Ameling, Hakan Hagegard,
Dalton Baldwin and Martin Isepp. |
