Korin Kormick |
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Korin Kormick, mezzo-soprano Mezzo-soprano Korin Kormick was third-place winner in the 2006 Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition and a regional finalist in the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She has portrayed Katisha in The Mikado, Ma Moss in The Tender Land and Diana Trapes in The Beggar’s Opera with the University of Louisville Opera Theatre. In addition to appearing in Mercury Opera Rochester's staging of Norma earlier this year, Ms. Kormick is a frequent performer with Kentucky Opera, where she has appeared in past productions of Eugene Onegin, Tosca, La Traviata, Carmen, Little Women, and Madama Butterfly. She will portray the title character in Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium as part of the Eastman Opera Theatre in January 2008. Ms. Kormick has performed as soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Magnificat, and Williametta Spencer’s Christmas cantata Make We Joy. She has also performed as soloist with the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. Future engagements include Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in October 2007. Her wide range and unique vocal qualities also make her a highly sought interpreter of new music. In May 2005, she created the role of Helen Thomas in the world premiere of Danielle Post’s opera Chasing a Precedent as part of the Kentucky Opera VISIONS program; that same month, she sang the part of Susan in the concert reading of After Eurydice by Carrie L. Page. More recently, she premiered “Le secret,” the first song in R. Scott Adams’ cycle in progress, along with Shaun David Crowdus’ chamber piece “Nähe des Geliebten” for mezzo-soprano, viola, bassoon, harp, and percussion. A graduate of Centre College with a dual degree in Music and French, Ms. Kormick also has a Master of Music degree from the University of Louisville, and is currently a DMA student at the Eastman School of Music. |