{"id":5543,"date":"2017-08-23T22:31:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T22:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=5543"},"modified":"2017-08-23T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T22:50:50","slug":"second-2017-audience-choice-award-schyler-vargas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5543","title":{"rendered":"2017 Second Audience Choice Award : Schyler Vargas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baritone<\/span><\/h3>\n

Recipient of the Kathy McRee Second Choice Award<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Born and raised in Colorado, Schyler Vargas has performed throughout the state with Opera Fort Collins, Boulder Symphony, Loveland Opera Theatre, and the Ralph Opera Center at Colorado State University. His work includes featured roles such as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Father in H\u00e4nsel und Gretel, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, the title role in Signor Deluso by Thomas Pasatieri, and both Samuel and the Pirate King in the Pirates of Penzance.\u00a0 Schyler spent the summer of 2016 in the Ozark Mountains with Opera in the Ozarks as a Studio Artist. During his summer in Arkansas, he sang in the chorus for Don Giovanni and I Pagliacci, starred in a touring children\u2019s opera Pinocchio by Jon Davies as Dr. Dulcamara, and performed scenes from La Cenerentola and West Side Story. Beforehand, Schyler served as a studio artist with Opera Fort Collins for the 2015-2016 season where he performed in the chorus for La Cenerentola, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Turandot, as well as playing the Corporal and covering Sulpice in an abridged version of Daughter of the Regiment. Schyler was among a select group of singers chosen for the Houston Grand Opera\u2019s Young Artist Vocal Academy, where he had the opportunity to train vocally and dramatically with coaches at HGO, in addition to obtaining vital tools and advice for maintaining a successful career in opera from the HGO studio administration.\u00a0 In the Colorado and Wyoming NATS competition, Schyler has placed in the top two every year he participated including First Place in the classical division in 2015 and 2016 and First Place in the musical theater division in 2015. In 2017, he was selected as a finalist for the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition earning the Bernard Polak Memorial Award for 6th place. He has consistently received scholarship awards from Colorado State University for musical excellence throughout his undergraduate career including a finalist in the 2014 Singer of the Year Competition earning the Michael McDonald Memorial Scholarship.\u00a0 Graduating with a BA in Music with a Performance Enhancement at Colorado State University in 2016, Schyler will be pursuing a Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music this fall under the tutelage of William McGraw. If you would like to follow Schyler\u2019s future engagements, feel free to follow him on:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunday, June 25, 2017<\/h5>\n