{"id":5814,"date":"2018-08-17T19:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=5814"},"modified":"2018-08-17T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T21:57:41","slug":"2018-finalist-award-fred-vanness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5814","title":{"rendered":"2018 Finalist Award : Fred C. VanNess"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tenor<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Recipient of the Emilee Peters Award<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6026\" title=\"Fred C. VanNess, Tenor\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07-3-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07-3-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07-3-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/07-3.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tenor Fred C. VanNess Jr., noted for having a \u201cdomineering, fine voice\u201d is a native of Kinder, Louisiana.\u00a0 He was recently heard with the Salem Philharmonic in Salem, Massachusetts. Mr. VanNess has sung with numerous opera companies throughout New England including Don Jose in Carmen with the North End Music Performing Arts Center, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Longwood Opera, and Tamino in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te with Opera del West.\u00a0 His other credits include Rodolfo in La Boheme, Dr. Cajus in Falstaff, Charlie in Das Kliene Magahonny and Fenton in Falstaff as part of the Montefeltro Music Festival in Novafeltria, Italy.\u00a0 Mr. VanNess also has an active career as a concert soloist. His concert credits include Handel\u2019s Juddas Maccabeus and Messiah, Bach\u2019s Cantata 131 and Scott Joplin&#8217;s 100th Anniversary of his opera Treemonisha, an Aria Concert and Christmas concert with the Lake Charles Symphony and featured guest soloist with the Reagle Theatre for their Christmas Time show.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2012 and 2013 Mr. VanNess was invited to be the guest soloist for the Robert F. Kennedy Children&#8217;s Action Corps&#8217; Embracing the Legacy Awards at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. VanNess has also been involved in numerous fundraising events with the Children Action Corps.\u00a0 Mr. VanNess has been awarded the first place prize for the North Shore Star presented by the North Shore Music Theatre and The Beverly Rotary Club.\u00a0 He is also a recipient of The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana Career Grant.\u00a0 Mr. VanNess is also an active member of the New England based group Castle Of Skins which celebrates Black artistry though music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredvannesstenor.com\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">www.fredvannesstenor.com\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fred.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6049\" title=\"Fred C. VanNess, Tenor\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fred-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fred-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fred-804x1024.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Gwen Juarez<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/240_F_44595672_CgAD4OoixdCTfkH5mv2Aec6IPVkoCs3F.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6028\" title=\"Enrico Caruso\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/240_F_44595672_CgAD4OoixdCTfkH5mv2Aec6IPVkoCs3F.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"2018 Finalist Award : Banlingyu Ban\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5816\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">2018 Finalist Award : Banlingyu Ban<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenor Recipient of the Emilee Peters Award Tenor Fred C. VanNess Jr., noted for having a \u201cdomineering, fine voice\u201d is a native of Kinder, Louisiana.\u00a0 He was recently heard with the Salem Philharmonic in Salem, Massachusetts. Mr. VanNess has sung with numerous opera companies throughout New England including Don Jose in Carmen with the North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5775,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5814","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5814","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=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5814\/revisions\/6046"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}