Emory University: Vocal Masterclass with Composer Jake Heggie
Free
Composer Jake Heggie is best known for the operas Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick, It's A Wonderful Life, and Three Decembers. Heggie's operas and his nearly 300 art songs have been performed extensively on five continents, championed by some of the world's most beloved artists. He will give a two-day masterclass with the vocal students of the Emory Music Department, Wednesday, February 21 at 6:30pm and Thursday, February 22 at 2:30pm.
About Emory University Music Department
The Department of Music at Emory recognizes the many and varied manifestations of music and hears in them a powerful means of understanding the human experience.
The mission of the department is to provide a dynamic and ever-changing environment in which students, faculty, and the greater Atlanta community can encounter music through performance, creation, listening, reflection, and analysis. We fulfill our mission by offering a broad array of courses and experiences in which students make and study many different kinds of music.
https://music.emory.edu/About Jake Heggie
American composer Jake Heggie is best known for Dead Man Walking (2000), the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, with a libretto by Terrence McNally, and his critically acclaimed operas Moby-Dick (2010), Three Decembers (2008), and It’s a Wonderful Life (2016), all with libretti by Gene Scheer. In addition to 10 full-length operas and numerous one-acts, Heggie has composed more than 300 art songs, as well as concerti, chamber music, choral, and orchestral works. His compositions have been performed on five continents, and he regularly collaborates with some of the world’s most beloved artists as both composer and pianist.
https://www.jakeheggie.com/