Lyric baritone, Christopher Michel, is a a tenured faculty member at Sam Houson State University. Coleman performs and provides vocal master classes throughout the United States and Europe. Her vocal students have sung on the some of world’s most illustrious stages from the New York Metropolitan Opera to the stages of Broadway. Dr. She has served on several summer festival faculties: SongFest at Colburn in Los Angeles, CA the Spoleto Festival in Italy the Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg and the Miami/Savannah Choral and Voice Festival. Coleman is currently an associate professor of voice at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Coleman can be heard on the Newport Classic’s CD recording of Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe and as the leading soprano, Suleika, on Centaur Record’s world-premier recording of Schubert’s Der Graf von Gleichen.ĭr. Her opera role repertoire includes Gilda in Rigoletto, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Blonde in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, the Governess in Turn of the Screw, Monica in The Medium, and the title role in Cendrillon among others.

Coleman made her European debut as the soprano soloist for the Klassiche Musikfest’s performances of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten and Beethoven’s Mass in C at the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria. Her solo concert work includes appearances with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Bangor Symphony Orchestra, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. Soprano Gwen Coleman has been praised by music critics for possessing a voice of “divine beauty” with “sparkling coloratura” and “impressive high-flying top notes” (Opera News).

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