We took great pride as we prepared to begin our semi-final rounds in Houston, Texas. Last year as we celebrated our tenth Lois Alba Aria Competition, we welcomed 36 wonderful singers to this weekend event, who competed for the largest total of prize monies we had prepared to award. We began the auditions on Saturday morning of June 6th at the University of St Thomas’s Cullen Hall around 10 am. We welcomed friends and family to quietly attend the semi’s. For those of you who did not attend, we have included some videos below of that exciting and wonderful day filled with singing!
Here are a few of our semi-finalists on Saturday, June 6th, 2015
Baritone, Blas Canedo with Votres Toast! from CARMEN by Bizet
Courtney Miller, Mezzo-soprano sings The Composer’s Aria
from ARIADNE AUF NAXOS by Strauss
Tenor, Jon Janacek sings the Preislied
from DIE MEISTERSINGER by Wagner
Soprano, Megan Gryga sings L’annee en vain chasse l’annee
from L’ENFANT PRODIGUE by Debussy
Mezzo-soprano, Shelbi Herndon sings Ma coeur s’ouvre a ta voix
from SAMSON ET DALILA by Saint-Saens
Colleen Daly, Soprano, sings Robert, toi que j’aime
from ROBERT LE DIABLE by Meyerbeer
All of these HD Videos were recorded by Richard Kummins
Semi-finalists
Gwendolyn D. Alfred … Soprano … Houston, Texas
Haegon Kim … Tenor … Houston, Texas
Jennifer Pisarcik … Soprano … Valley Mills, Texas
Shelbi Herndon … Mezzo-soprano … Longview, Texas
Katherine Smith … Soprano … Houston, Texas
Uram Park … Baritone … Carrollton, Texas
Agostina Migoni … Soprano … Plano, Texas
Jubal Joslyn … Tenor … Austin, Texas
Megan E. Gryga … Soprano … Houston, Texas
Farah Padamsee … Mezzo-soprano … Lewisville, Texas
Esther Maureen Kelly … Soprano …Houston, Texas
Allen Stowe … Tenor … Houston, Texas
Julia Engel … Soprano … Houston, Texas
Nan Qin … Bass-baritone … Allen, Texas
Julia Fox … Soprano … Houston, Texas
Brooke Larimer … Mezzo-soprano … Brooklyn, New York
Sarah A. Bannon … Soprano … Houston, Texas
Zuly Inirio … Soprano … Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Savannah Bisset … Soprano … Port Chester, New York
Hanna Youn … Soprano … Denton, Texas
Keun Won Park … Tenor … San Marcos, Texas
Kaitlyn Stobbe … Soprano … Waco, Texas
Blas Canedo … Baritone … Houston, Texas
Janelle Kirton … Soprano … Baldwin, New York
Christine Phares … Mezzo-soprano … Corinth, Texas
Rebecca Wilson … Soprano … Urbana, Illinois
Kimberly Giordano … Soprano … Kirkland, Washington
Jon Janacek … Tenor … Houston, Texas
Bille Bruley … Tenor … Bloomington, Indiana
Cesar Torruella … Baritone … Houston, Texas
Rebecca Conviser … Soprano … New York City, New York
Esteban Cordero … Tenor … Manati, Puerto Rico
Gillian Watson … Soprano … Austin, Texas
Courtney Miller … Mezzo-soprano … Boston, Massachusetts
Albert Niedel … Baritone … Gaithersburg, Maryland
Colleen Daly … Columbia, Maryland
