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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (March 2, 2010) – Gregory Turay, a celebrated American tenor, will conduct a Voice Master class at Milligan College on Friday, March 19, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Milligan’s Walker Auditorium, located in the lower level of Seeger Memorial Chapel. The event is open to the public. There is a $5 admission fee at the door.
Turay, along with Milligan professor of music, Dr. David Runner, will join the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra for a concert on Saturday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Seeger Chapel.
Turay has debuted with many companies around the globe including, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the Boston Lyric Opera and the Cleveland Orchestra with Christoph von Dohnanyi. He also debuted internationally in Europe at the Welsh National Opera and in Germany at the Deutsche Opera as Tamino in “Die Zauberflöte.”
He recently debuted with the Indianapolis Symphony and will return to the Metropolitan Opera this season as Rodolpho in William Bolcom’s “A View from the Bridge,” a role he created for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s world premiere in 1999. He is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Lindemann Young Artists Development Program.
At the age of 21, Turay won the 1995 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. One year later he also won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Other prestigious awards include a George London Foundation award, an ARIA award, a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant, first prize in both the D’Angelo Young artists and Catherine E. Pope competitions, and the Orchestra New England Soloist prize.
He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and currently studies at U.K. with Dr. Everett McCorvey, director of opera and holder of the Lexington Opera Society Endowed Chair in Opera Studies.
For more information, contact the Milligan music department at 423.461.8723.