Marshall University\u2019s School of Music will present a concert and a master class with performer Kaitlyn Davis.<\/p>\n
Davis is a New York-based soprano who played the part of Christine Daa\u00e9 in the North American tour of \u201cPhantom of the Opera,\u201d winning the Emerging Talent Award from the Kurt Weill Foundation\u2019s 2016 Lotte Lenya Competition.<\/p>\n
She will present a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in Smith Recital Hall on Marshall\u2019s Huntington campus. Accompanied by pianist Mark Smith, Davis will sing show tunes from\u00a0My Fair Lady<\/em>,\u00a0The Most Happy Fella<\/em>,\u00a0The Bridges of Madison County, Phantom of the Opera<\/em>,\u00a0Candide, Les Mis\u00e9rables,<\/em>\u00a0Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Anastasia<\/em>.\u00a0It is free and open to the public. She is offering a free master class at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, also at Smith Recital Hall. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n \u201cShe holds the bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree in classical music,\u201d said Dr. Alexander Lee, coordinator of voice studies at Marshall. \u201cHer vocal technique and music foundation are rooted in classic bel canto technique, and now she is performing contemporary musical theater works. She will be a good example of how to use classical music training for contemporary music, and in master class, she will share her experience of how her formal training in university helped her successful career in musical theater.\u201d<\/p>\n The events are funded in part by the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professors in the Arts Endowment with support from the College of Arts and Media, as well as the School of Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marshall University\u2019s School of Music will present a concert and a master class with performer Kaitlyn Davis. Davis is a New York-based soprano who played the part of Christine Daa\u00e9 in the North American tour of \u201cPhantom of the Opera,\u201d winning the Emerging Talent Award from the Kurt Weill Foundation\u2019s 2016 Lotte Lenya Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theatre-news"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/files\/2019\/04\/KaitlynDavis1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}