Join us for an Emerson/Harris Voice Masterclass with Carol Mastrodomenico!
Carol Mastrodomenico an accomplished soloist with choruses, orchestras and other ensembles. She excels in the interpretation of oratorio, and has appeared in Poulenc’s Gloria, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Ninth Symphony, Brahms’ Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Fauré’s Requiem.
Ms. Mastrodomenico is an accomplished recitalist and has performed programs ranging from premieres of contemporary music to cabaret programs involving interaction with the audience. She toured England with her production of John Morrison’s Jane Austin’s History of England singing the role of Emce. She premiered John McDonald’s Put this in your Pipe and Speech Made by Music with the Essex Chamber Players, and premiered Ellen Bender’s Five Emily Dickinson Songs during New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Festival. Other noted composers she has worked with include Robert DiDomenica and David Leisner. Ms. Mastrodomenico has a great love for Spanish Repertoire and enjoys programing Spanish and particularly Argentinian songs to introduce the repertoire to her recital audiences. She has curated unique recitals and developed Spanish and Latin American Repertoire courses at Longy School of Music of Bard College.
A champion of vocal chamber music, she has worked with noted musicians premiering new works at contemporary festivals sponsored by BMOP and composer groups at Tufts University and Longy School of Music of Bard College. She has been invited to perform at the Tanglewood Music Center, Jordan Hall, Faneuil Hall, the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, the Boston Vocal Artists Series, the 1794 Meeting House concert Series in New Salem, and the Music at Noon Concert Series at the Swedenborg Chapel.
Ms. Mastrodomenico is the stage director of both the Tufts University Opera Ensemble and the Longy School of Music of Bard College’s Opera Experience. Most recently she directed an updated version of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel for Longy’s 2023 Fall Production. A champion of new music, Ms. Mastrodomenico commissions new operas regularly. She programed, produced and directed Dan Shore’s Embarrassing Position, Leanna Kirchoff’s Scrapbookers and Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appetit for Tufts spring 2023 opera performance. She produced and directed Thomas Stumpf’s adaption of Oscar Wilde’s Nightingale and the Rose and The Happy Prince in February 2020. Recent productions she has directed include Countess Maritza, Cendrillon, Lucio Silla, Le Nozze di Figaro, Der Zwerg, L’amico Fritz, Gianni Schicchi, Three Sisters who are not Sisters, Three Penny Opera, Dido and Aeneas, Old Maid and the Thief, Amelia Goes to the Ball, Riders to the Sea, Gallantry, The Telephone and Doctor Miracle. Ms. Mastrodomenico is a passionate advocate for newly composed works. With the Tufts Opera Ensemble, she commissioned and directed the world premieres of Knave of Hearts by Vartan Aghababian in 2013 and No Onions, nor Garlic by Thomas Stumpf in 2014. With the Longy Opera Workshop, she commissioned and directed the world premiere of Jane Austen’s History of England by John Morrison in 2014. It is her hope to commission a new opera work every year. Musical Directing includes 35 MM by Ryan Scott Oliver, Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon, A My Name is Alice and Sondheim on Sondheim.
Ms. Mastrodomenico is just as passionate about vocal pedagogy and teaching voice. She has developed online masterclasses for Opera Programs Berlin, most recently “The Whole Instrument” with colleague Sarah Whitten. She is part of the Teaching Online and Vocal Symposium: Vocal Technique, Resources and Strategies where she teaches sessions on “Post-Vocal Trauma Training” and “Strategies for Mental Toughness: Reclaiming your voice”. Her Classical Singer Master Class on Different Vocal Resonance Strategies are widely attended. Students learned how to use vowel resonance strategies to sing musical theater belt, mix and legit styles in addition to classical strategies. She has participated in panel discussions by the Boston NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Chapter on the different elements of "Teaching Men to Sing" and was invited by the Western Massachusetts NATS chapter to give a solo presentation on Teaching Men. Her master classes at the Classical Singer Convention, Regional NATS workshops and area Colleges are widely attended. At her invitation, renowned pedagogue Ken Bozeman spoke in the Boston area about the Pedagogical Applications of Vocal Acoustics for teaching voice. She developed and annually taught a vocal curriculum for string performers at the Heifetz International Summer Institute in Staunton, VA until the summer 2016.
Ms. Mastrodomenico’s students can be heard singing throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. They have been accepted into graduate and undergraduate programs at Julliard, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Texas at Austin, University of North Texas, Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Miami, Frost School of Music, Michigan State University, University of Maryland at College Park, Ithaca College, Guild Hall and The Royal Academy of Music in London. Her singers regularly attend young artist programs at Houston Grand Opera, Central City, Berlin Song Festival, Edinburgh Music Festival and Halifax Opera Festival.
Ms. Mastrodomenico received her Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance and Vocal Pedagogy at New England Conservatory of Music. She has continued her training with a certificate from the Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Summer Program at NEC, and Somatic Voicework The LoVetri Method for CCM styles She is on the voice faculties of Longy School of Music of Bard College and Tufts University, Dramatic Voices Program Berlin and Lanzarote Opera Festival and Academy.
The Emerson/Harris Masterclass Series is supported in part by the Robert L. Malster (1956) Fund.
