Gateway to the Arts
6101 Penn Avenue, Suite 301
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

telephone 412.362.6982
fax 412.362.6986
gatewaytothearts.org

 

Voices and Stories

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Artist: Christina Farrell

Christina_FarrellOpera is rich with opportunities to explore history, literature, diverse cultures, music, drama, and performing techniques. This program offers custom-fit, curriculum-based residencies for classrooms which allow students to discover how music can illustrate setting, mood and character in a story and perhaps create an original opera themselves. Coaching on healthy vocal technique is available for musical ensembles as well. Opera Ignite Founding Director Christina Farrell received a BFA in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University. She has performed with Washington National Opera and Baltimore’s Opera Vivente, and has served on the voice faculties of Peabody Preparatory and Washington D.C.’s Levine School of Music.

Maximum # of students:

40 (classroom setting), 60 (choirs or ensembles)

Requirements:

None

Minimum sequential workshops:

1

 
 
 

Latest Updates

  • November 10, 2011 
    On the Road & On the Air

    Taking the ‘stage’ at the historic Pump House, managed by the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area this past June, Tom Breiding recorded the PHC’s Humanities on the Road episode Steeltowns, Coalfield and the Unbroken Circle, which airs this weekend.


  • December 21, 2011 
    A Whirlwind of Collaboration

    Two densely-scheduled days this November marked the fruition of a collaborative project two years in the making, designed by Gateway to the Arts and the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. The goal was to assist the graduate chamber music ensembles at CMU in developing dynamic outreach programs for public school students grades K-12. Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, project coordinators Lisa Hoitsma of Gateway and Dr. Natalie Ozeas of CMU enlisted the expertise of the Grammy-nominated African-American woodwind quintet, Imani Winds, known world-wide for their high-quality outreach programming that focuses on excellent musicianship, audience participation and repertoire.