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Susan Wallin

Adjunct Instructor, Voice

Susan Wallin, voice. Appointed 2004. B.Mus. in Vocal Performance, Kent State University, 1987; M.Mus. in Vocal Performance nearly complete, Kent State. Taught voice as leave replacement at Kent State, 1999-2000. Has taught voice at West Side Vocal Academy in Akron, 1997-present, and has been Akron Public School Magnet Arts Vocal Instructor, 1999-present. A sparkling coloratura is the calling card of soprano Susan Wallin, whose career includes notable performances as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote witih New York City Opera, Oper Der Stadt Koln, Central City Opera and Opera Carolina to name a few. She has performed the tour de force role of Zerbinetta in Ariadne Auf Naxos with Arizona Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Yum Yum in The Mikado and Adele in Die Fledermaus with New York City Opera, and Despina in Cosi fan Tutte with Arizona Opera. She has also performed with the Kentucky Opera, Chattanooga Opera, Greensboro Opera, and Chicago Opera Theatre. Other roles include Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Josephine in HMS Pinafore and Nanetta in Falstaff. Ms. Wallin has also appeared with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony, Canton Symphony and the North Carolina Symphony. Her orchestral repertoire includes C Minor Mass (Mozart), Requiem (Faure), The Creation (Haydn), Exultate Jubilate (Mozart), The Messiah (Handel), Carmina Burana (Orff) and others. Awards include a $10,000 first prize at the Macallister Awards, as well as first place with Opera Columbus and Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions. Ms. Wallin, an Akron native, has won first place twice with both the Tuesday Musical Club Gertrude Pflaum Scholarship and the Akron Symphony Chorus John MacDonald Vocal Scholarship. Ms. Wallin made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the Messiah with The Masterworks Chorus under the direction of David Briskin. She performed in Mozart's C Minor Mass with the North Carolina Symphony and the Canton Symphony. Recently, Ms. Wallin appeard with the Ashland Symphony in Carmina Burana, with the Wooster Symphony singing Mozart Concert Arias, with the Akron Symphony in The Messiah and with Opera Cleveland in A Little Night Music.