Marcía Porter
soprano
Valerie M. Trujillo
piano
Guest Artist Recital
Monday, October 17, 2011
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, Music Building
Program
Quando uma flôr desabrocha Francisco Mignone
A estrêla (1897-1986)
Modinha Heitor Villa Lobos
Nhapôpé (1887-1959)
Hôtel Francis Poulenc
Violon (1899-1963)
Phidylé Henri Duparc
(1848-1933)
Zueignung Richard Strauss
Das Rosenband (1864-1949)
Morgen
Cäcilie
Intermission
Three Simple Songs (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) Antonio Carlos Defeo
Sonnett XXXV (b. 1973)
Sonnett XI
Sonnett XXIII
Later Summer Tom Cipullo
Crickets
… Summer into Autumn slips
Touch Me
Guide my feet arr. Jacqueline B. Hairston
I wanna die easy arr. Lori C. Hicks
Walk together children arr. Moses Hogan
Marcía Porter, soprano
“When soprano Marcía Porter stood to take her first solo, tears sprang into my eyes at the
purity of her exquisitevoice and the perfection of her phrasing…Porter was nothing less than
enchanting.” (Tallahassee Democrat)
Award-winning soprano Marcía Porter made her New York solo recital debut in
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2005. An active recitalist, she has performed
throughout the United States, Italy, Brazil, and the Czech Republic. She has sung at
such international festivals as the Prague Proms, Piccolo Spoletto Festival, the Ravinia
Festival, and the Ameropa International Chamber Music Festival.
During the 2011 season, Porter made her debut with the Czech National Symphony
Orchestra and has also performed with such organizations as the San Antonio
Symphony Orchestra, Beijing International Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata
Filarmonica Bohemia. Ms. Porter is a featured artist on the 2011 Ars Produktion
release of the compact disk Requiem für Mozart, which includes works for soprano and
orchestra by Antonio Rosetti.
Ms. Porter has performed at Pensacola Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Chautauqua Opera, Dayton Opera, and Chicago Opera Theatre.
She has sung Mimi (La Bohème), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Malwina (Der Vampyr),
Lucy (Treemonisha), Mrs. Hayes (Susannah), Camilla Pocket (Miss Havisham’s Fire), St.
Answers (Four Saints in Three Acts) and, the ingénue, a role written for her for Dayton
Opera’s world premier of Adolphus Hailstork’s Paul Laurence Dunbar: Common
Ground.
Porter was named a 2011-2012 Fulbright Scholar to Brazil. Her research focuses on
African American and Afro- Brazilian classical art song written since 1862. She will be
in residence at the Universidade de São Paolo, where she will present recitals,
masterclasses and lectures on African American and Afro-Brazilian classical song
literature. In addition to numerous other awards and honors, Ms. Porter is also Rotary
International Cultural Ambassadorial Scholar and winner of the 2004 the NATS Artist
Award.
Dr. Porter is an Associate Professor of Voice at The Florida State University College of
Music. She is a much sought after clinician and has presented masterclasses
throughout the mid-western and southeastern US. Dr. Porter, a graduate of the New
Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, earned her B.M. and M.M degrees in voice
performance from Northwestern University and a D.M.A in performance from The
University of Michigan, where she studied with world-renowned Metropolitan Opera
singer Shirley Verrett. Previous teachers include Margaret Harshaw, Carmen Mehta,
and Kathleen Kaun.
Valerie M. Trujillo, piano
Valerie M. Trujillo’s experiences in song literature and opera make her a much sought
after accompanist, coach, and teacher of masterclasses. Formerly Co-Director of the
Young American Artists Program at Glimmerglass Opera, she has been associated
with many opera companies including Santa Fe Opera, Wexford Festival Opera
(Ireland), Connecticut Opera, Shreveport Opera, Mississippi Opera, Florida Grand
Opera, Opera Theatre at Wildwood, Augusta Opera, Ohio Light Opera and Opera in
the Ozarks. Ms. Trujillo has served as artist faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center,
Ars Vocalis México (Zamora, México), the Taos Opera Institute, The Lake Placid
Institute, and Intermezzo Program for Young Artists as well as the academic faculty
at the Hartt School, Middle Tennessee State University, Yale University and Central
Connecticut State University. She made her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2006 and her
compact disc, Thou didst delight my Ears, featuring tenor, Ian Partridge, was recently
released on the Mark Records label. Ms. Trujillo can also be heard on the Grammy-nominated
Chandos release of Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur, as well as with fellow
Florida State University faculty members Deborah Bish and Christopher Moore on
the Mark Records label. A native of Santa Fe, N.M., she received her musical training
from Eastern New Mexico University and the University of Illinois, where she studied
with John Wustman. She taught at The Florida State University from 1990-1996 and
rejoined the faculty in 2002 where she is now Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching
and Accompanying.
