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Joslin Romphf from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a recent
graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
at the Metropolitan Opera. She graduated with her Master of
Music in opera performance at The Curtis Institute of Music
in 2004, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in
May 2001. Ms. Romphf was the 1999 winner of the Young
Canadian Mozart Singers competition in Toronto, and in 2001
won third place in the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Canadian
Concerto Competition. In 2003, Ms. Romphf was a
semi-finalist in the CBC/Radio Canada Young Canadian
Performers Competition and was the recipient of a Sosenko
Foundation Grant. In 2004, Ms. Romphf was the recipient of
the Vancouver Opera Guild Grant, the Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions Encouragement Award, and was the
winner of the Kennett Symphony of Chester County Voice
Competition. She is also the recipient of several Rader
Foundation Grants. In 2007, Ms. Romphf was selected as a
semi-finalist in the Loren L. Zachary vocal competition, and
received a grant from the Gerda Lissner Foundation.
In October, 2002, Ms. Romphf performed a solo recital with
pianist Mikael Eliasen for the Women’s Musical Club of
Winnipeg. For the Music Academy of the West, Ms. Romphf has
performed the role of Mme. Cortese in Il viaggio a Rheims
under the direction of Marilyn Horne for the Academy’s
fiftieth anniversary season. While at Curtis, she has sung
Elle in La Voix Humaine and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte in
a reading with the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis
Institute of Music, with whom she has also sung Donna Anna
in Don Giovanni. During the 2000-2001 season, Ms. Romphf
sang the title role in the Curtis Opera Theatre production
of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa. In the 2001-2002 season, Ms.
Romphf made her American professional debut with the Opera
Company of Philadelphia as Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore.
During that season, she also performed Le Feu in L’Enfant et
les Sortileges with the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis
Institute of Music under the direction of Robert Spano. In
the summer of 2002, Ms. Romphf performed the role of Female
Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia for the Opera Festival of New
Jersey, under the direction of David Agler. Later that year,
she performed the role of Magda in The Consul for the Curtis
Opera Theatre, and in 2003 took part in the acclaimed
Savonlinna production of MacBeth for the Opera Company of
Philadelphia. During the 2003-2004 season, Ms. Romphf
performed the eponymous role in the Curtis Opera
Theatre/Kimmel Centre production of Ned Rorem’s Miss Julie,
as part of “Roremania”, a week long festival in celebration
of Ned Rorem’s eightieth birthday, during which she also
gave a performance of his song cycle “Ariel”. Other
performances in 2004 included the soprano solo part in
Beethoven’s Mass in C Major with the Germantown Symphony.
Ms. Romphf was a member of the Steans Institute at the
Ravinia Festival, and was also the featured soloist in
recital with Richard Epp at the International Voice Teachers
Conference "Celebrating the Spirit of Song" in Vancouver,
B.C. during the summer of 2005. She took part in the
prestigious Marlboro Festival in the summer of 2006, where
she performed Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo. In the 2006-2007
season, Ms. Romphf made her Carnegie Hall debut under the
auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. In 2007, Ms.
Romphf made her Canadian operatic and orchestral debuts in
her hometown of Victoria, BC singing Elettra in Idomeneo for
Pacific Opera Victoria and the soprano solo in Mahler's
Symphony Number 4 with the Victoria Symphony. She also
covered acclaimed soprano, Jane Eaglan, for the Music of
Remembrance foundation in Seattle, Washington, for her
performance of Thomas Pasatieri’s “Letter to Warsaw” in
November, 2007.
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OPERA
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BARBER
Vanessa - Vanessa
BRITTEN
Female chorus - Rape of Lucretia
DONIZETTI
Giannetta - L'Elisir
d'Amore
MENOTTI
Magda - The Consul
Mme Gobineau - The Medium
MONTEVERDI
Nutrice - L'Incoronazione di Poppea
MOZART
Fiordiligi - Cosi fan tutte
Vitellia - La Clemenza di Tito
Donna Anna - Don Giovanni
Elettra - Idomeneo
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POULENC
Elle - La Voix Humaine
RAVEL
Le Feu - L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
ROREM
Miss Julie - Miss Julie
ROSSINI
Mme Cortese - Il Viaggio a Rheims
VERDI
Leonora
- Il Trovatore
Dama di Lady - MacBeth |
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CONCERT
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BEETHOVEN
Ah, Perfido
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Mass in C Major
Ninth Symphony
BRITTEN
War Requiem
DEBUSSY
L'Enfant Prodigue
HANDEL
Messiah
HAYDN
Scena di Berenice
HARBISON
Mirabai Songs
RAMINSH
Three Spanish Lyrics
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ROREM
Ariel
STRAUSS, R.
Four Last Songs
MAHLER
4th Symphony (Soprano solo)
MOZART
Mass in C Minor (2nd Soprano)
Requiem
ROSSINI
Stabat Mater
VERDI
Requiem
WAGNER
Wesendonck Lieder
WALTON
A song for the Lord Mayor's Table |
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