Julia Lindsay
Julia Lindsay, soprano, is coordinator for voice studies in the Department of Music at Andrews University. She holds a M.Mus. from AU and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. She is presently pursuing a DMA in voice performance at Indiana University with voice instructors Jean Deis and Carol Smith.
Lindsay has sung under some of the great choral/orchestral conductors of the 20th century, including Eric Leinsdorf (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.), Leonard Bernstein (Kennedy Center & Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y.), and Norman Scribner (Choral Arts Society, Washington, D.C.). Additionally, she has sung locally with Pro Musica under Zvonimir Hacko and with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra under Robert Vodnoy.
In addition to choral participation and voice teaching, Lindsay is active as a soloist. During the summers of 1989 and 1992 she was principal soloist for the Newbold Summer Music Festival in England, touring with the Festival throughout England, Scotland, Belgium and France. She was featured as principal soprano soloist for the 1991 Columbia River Music Festival in Southeastern Washington State and, in 1994, was the guest vocal clinician for the Virgin Islands Choral Festival held on the Island of Martinique.
Lindsay toured successful in Iceland and Norway in 1996. Locally, she has performed with the St. Joseph Pro Musica on the Michiana Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series and with the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra. She has given numerous art song recitals.
She has been soloist in Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3; Mozart's Requiem, Mass in C, and Exsultate, jubilate,
K 165; Bach's Cantatas No. 51, Jauchzet, Gott in allen Landen, No. 63, Christen atzet diesen Tag and No. 191, Gloria in excelsis Deo; Handel's Dixit:; Haydn's The Creation; Brahms' A German Requiem; Finzi's In Terra Pax; and the Requiems of Maurice Durufle, John Rutter and Andrew Lloyd Webber. She has also played the lead roles in Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti and in Trial by Jury by Gilbert and Sullivan.Lindsay has participated in artistic ventures involving both early music and theater and particularly enjoys working with early music ensembles involved in the challenge of authentically performing music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. She has served as Producer and Music Director for several dramatic productions, including Trial by Jury (1993), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1995), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1996), The Music Man (1997), and Godspell (1999).
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