{"id":4952,"date":"2016-06-22T19:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=4952"},"modified":"2016-07-19T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:55:23","slug":"finalist-michael-hewitt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=4952","title":{"rendered":"Finalist : Michael Hewitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Baritone<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Recipient of the Kathy McRee Award<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MG_0232-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4953\" title=\"Michael Hewitt\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MG_0232-copy-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MG_0232-copy-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MG_0232-copy-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Hewitt is a baritone based in Houston, TX.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An alumnus of Houston Grand Opera\u2019s Young Artist Vocal Academy, The Music Academy of The West, and Seagle Music Colony, Michael has recently begun studies for his Master of Music degree at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael has taken the stage as the title role in Don Giovanni, Frank Butler in Annie, Get Your Gun, Lancelot in Camelot, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Emile de Becque in South Pacific, and Jud Fry in Oklahoma!, among others. In concert, he has been seen as the Bass Soloist in Beethoven&#8217;s Symphony No. 9 and in Mozart&#8217;s Requiem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael is a proud member of the Actors\u2019 Equity Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhewitt.com\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">www.michaelhewitt.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/th-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4954\" title=\"Colorado Columbine\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/th-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QauQGzs-dxc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Votre toast!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from Bizet&#8217;s CARMEN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 Michael was accompanied by Maestra Andreea Mu\u0163.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 HD Video provided by Robert Land Productions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4955\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Michael.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4955\" class=\" wp-image-4955\" title=\"Michael Hewitt\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Michael-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Michael-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Michael-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photos by Gwen Juarez<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhDaB9Uok4g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Tutto e disposto&#8230;Aprit un po&#8217;quegli occhi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from Mozart&#8217;s Le NOZZE di FIGARO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0Michael was accompanied by Maestra Andreea Mu\u0163.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 HD Video provided by Robert Land Productions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5042\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Michael-Kathy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5042\" class=\" wp-image-5042\" title=\"Michael Hewitt &amp; Kathy McRee\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Michael-Kathy-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Michael Hewitt &amp; Kathy McRee<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Our 2016 Guest Artists\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=4986\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0Meet Our 2016 Guest Artists<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baritone Recipient of the Kathy McRee Award Michael Hewitt is a baritone based in Houston, TX.\u00a0 An alumnus of Houston Grand Opera\u2019s Young Artist Vocal Academy, The Music Academy of The West, and Seagle Music Colony, Michael has recently begun studies for his Master of Music degree at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4839,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4952","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4952\/revisions\/5115"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}