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Caryn Greco, DMA

Assistant Professor of Voice, Coordinator of Music

About Caryn Greco

Dr. Caryn Alexis Greco has performed on the operatic and concert stage throughout the United States and Canada. She is hailed as having a voice “with a rich core and sparkling bloomin its upper register.” Her operatic repertoire includes The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Barbarina/Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Papagena/Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Lezni Zinky/ Kutchik in Rusalka, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Bianca in La Rondine, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Rose Maurrant in Street Scene, title role in Manon, and Anna 1 in Seven Deadly Sins. She has appeared with the Pittsburgh Savoyards, ViVace Opera (Vancouver, BC), Toronto Summer Opera (Ontario), Finger Lakes Opera (New York), Portland Summer Opera (Oregon), Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Undercroft Opera, Bloomington Summer Opera, and Steel City Opera. She recently premiered the title role of Dr. Matthew Heap’s Helen Martin: An American Moment with Steel City Opera.

Dr. Greco’s other stage credits include Aline in The Sorcerer, Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Elsie Maynard in Yeoman of the Guard, Giannetta in The Gondoliers, and Julia in The Grand Duke; as well as Lead/Lover in The Enchanted Forest, Granny in Little Red’s Most Unusual Day, and the title role of Papagayo. On the concert stage, she has appeared with the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra, Finger Lakes Symphony, and the West Virginia University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. Her concert repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Coronation Mass, Bach’s Magnificat, and Faure’s Requiem

Dr. Greco can be heard on the newly released album of Dr. Matthew Heap’s Dillinger: An American Oratorio, in the role of Polly and recently was the soprano soloist in Dr. David Taddie’s Five Haiku, performed with the West Virginia Chamber Orchestra.

Dr. Greco currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Voice and Coordinator of Music at Saint Vincent College and is the Managing Director of Steel City Opera. She previously taught voice at Point Park University, West Liberty University, and West Virginia University.

Education

Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Appalachian State University

Master of Music in Voice Performance from Appalachian State University

Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from West Virginia University

Courses

Private Voice Lessons

Saint Vincent Singers

Opera Workshop

Sight-Singing

Diction for Singers

Music Appreciation

Research Interests

Scandinavian Art Song (Romanser)

West African Drum and Dance

 

Dissertation: “Johannes Brahms’s Fünf Ophelia-Lieder: Performance history, cultural context, and character study as it pertains to Johannes Brahms’s Fünf Ophelia-Lieder: A Performer’s Perspective” 

Professional Summary

Masterclasses:

Scandinavian Repertoire and Diction

West African Drum and Dance Workshops

 

 

Memberships

Opera America

National Association of Teachers of Singing

American Choral Director's Association

American Musicological Society