About

Valerie Girard, soprano/voice teacher/artistic director Artistic Director of Casentino Voice, studied at the American Opera Center of the Juilliard School as well as Italian bel canto and verismo opera with Luigi Ricci in Rome. She has performed with the New York City Opera and Wolf Trap Festival and has had an extensive performing career in major European theaters and concert halls with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Comissiona, Armin Jordan, Imre Pallo, Donald Runnicles, Nello Santi, Peter Schneider, and Stefan Soltesz. She has given recitals and concerts with orchestra in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Paris and many other large cities in France, Germany and Italy. She also performed as soloist with chamber music ensembles (among others, the Lincoln Center Chamber Ensemble in New York). She is the creator and artistic director of “Camerata di Colombaia”, a summer music festival in the Apennine mountains in Italy. She teaches vocal technique and its application in repertoire in the USA, Germany and Italy, and is a former faculty member of the University of Koblenz, Germany.

Skills

  • Voice Teaching
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  • opera singing
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  • Music Performance Teaching
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