02-15-23 / 7:30pm / BCPA Recital Hall
Soprano Tami Petty is a recent Award Winner of the Joy in Singing Competition and made her New York City solo recital debut in 2015. She has performed with the
American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, with New York Philharmonic at Avery
Fisher Hall, and with Voices of Ascension at Alice Tully Hall, for which The New York Times hailed her “powerful soprano” and The Classical Music Network declared, “Such a beauty and purity of tone is so rare that I could only listen in
ethereal pleasure." Her performances this season include the the Vaughan Williams
A SEA SYMPHONY, Haydn LORD NELSON MASS, Bruckner TE DEUM, Strauss VIER LETZTE GESÄNGE, Wagner WESENDONCK LIEDER, and world premieres by Sorrel Hayes and Gilda Lyons.
Ms. Petty’s favorite oratorio and concert performances include Poulenc GLORIA with Symphony of North Arkansas, Brahms GERMAN REQUIEM with Manchester Choral Society, Beethoven SYMPHONY NO. 9 with Altoona Symphony, Mozart REQUIEM with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Dvorak TE DEUM and with St. George Choral Society, Vaughan Williams A SEA SYMPHONY with Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, DONA NOBIS PACEM with New Hampshire Music Festival, and Richard Strauss VIER LETZTE GESÄNGE with St. Joseph Symphony.
Ms. Petty has performed soprano and mezzo-soprano operatic roles alike, including the title role in SUOR ANGELICA with Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Leonore in FIDELIO with Fort Collins Symphony, the Mother in AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS with historic Grace Church in New York City, Lady Billows in ALBERT HERRING as a guest with Colorado State University, Mrs. Herring in ALBERT HERRING as a guest with the Adler Fellows of San Francisco, Berta in BARBER OF SEVILLE with the Merola Opera Program, Cincinnati Opera, Central City Opera, and Bronx Opera, the Mother and the Witch in HANSEL AND GRETEL with Chautauqua Opera Outreach, Flora Bervoix in LA TRAVIATA with Cincinnati Opera, Charlotte in scenes from WERTHER at Eastman Opera Theatre, Buttercup in H.M.S. PINAFORE with Rochester Philharmonic, and Dido in DIDO AND AENEAS with Rochester Bach Festival.
A recipient of career grants from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, Chautauqua Opera Guild, the Lotte Lenya Competition, and the prestigious Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera Center, Ms. Petty also received special recognition in the Marilyn Horne Song Competition during her time spent at Music Academy of the West. She is the first recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from the Sorel Organization honoring women in music and received the Jessie Kneisel Prize in German Lieder while a student at the Eastman School of Music.
02-24-23 / 7:30pm / Arts & Sciences Auditorium
The Acting Company develops actors by touring professional theater across America.
Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley with the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School, The Company has launched the careers of some 400 actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Mary Lou Rosato, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Toussaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes, Jeffrey Wright, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Roslyn Ruff, Jimonn Cole, Kelley Curran, among many others, while bringing sophisticated theater to hundreds of communities from coast to coast.
Among many accolades, The Acting Company won the 2003 Tony Award for Excellence in
the Theater, and recently won the 2019 Audelco Award for Best Play for its production
of Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son directed by Seret Scott.
The Acting Company has been seen by over 4 million people in 48 States, 10 foreign countries, on and Off-Broadway, and at leading resident theaters including the Guthrie, the Kennedy Center and New York City Center.
New works commissioned by The Acting Company include plays William Finn, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, John Guare, Beth Henley, Tony Kushner, Lynn Nottage, Meg Miroshnik, Ntozake Shange, Maria Irene Fornés, Spalding Gray, Marsha Norman, Charles Smith, Samm-Art Williams, and Wendy Wasserstein among other notable playwrights. The Company's education programs bring professional productions, in-school residencies, and teacher training workshops to thousands of students in underserved schools and disadvantaged communities each year.
