{"id":5818,"date":"2018-08-17T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=5818"},"modified":"2018-08-17T21:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T21:29:54","slug":"2018-finalist-award-brandon-morales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5818","title":{"rendered":"2018 Finalist Award : Brandon Morales"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Bass<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Recipient of the Mikhail Geilikman Award<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6037\" title=\"IMG_9701\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9701-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9701-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9701-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Brandon Morales, Bass-Baritone, has performed with opera companies all over the US &#8211; stretching from the Pacific northwest\u2019s Portland Opera to Virginia Opera on the East coast.\u00a0 Morales has recently completed two years with Virginia Opera\u2019s Heardon Foundation Emerging Artist\u2019s Program with highlights including Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, and the Mother in Weill\u2019s Seven Deadly Sins. A graduate of Cincinnati\u2019s College-Conservatory of Music, he has been highly active in the Ohio area performing with Dayton Opera, NANO Works, Cincinnati Chamber Opera, Queen City Opera, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Cincinnati Opera, participated in Toledo Opera\u2019s Resident Artist program and the Wagner Society of Cincinnati. He will soon move to Phoenix to join the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio, where he be featured as Don Alfonso in Cos\u00ec Fan Tutte, as well as performing his dream role as the title character in Le Nozze di Figaro.\u00a0 A native of San Antonio, TX, Morales currently enjoys the vagabond life of performing, but misses his faithful cat, Elsie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbrandonmorales.com\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">www.cbrandonmorales.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Brandon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6039\" title=\"Brandon*\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Brandon-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/240_F_49648955_YxFma4op2rmqWEe9hTiA6z0CuHlLLdfk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6042\" title=\"240_F_49648955_YxFma4op2rmqWEe9hTiA6z0CuHlLLdfk\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/240_F_49648955_YxFma4op2rmqWEe9hTiA6z0CuHlLLdfk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass Recipient of the Mikhail Geilikman Award Brandon Morales, Bass-Baritone, has performed with opera companies all over the US &#8211; stretching from the Pacific northwest\u2019s Portland Opera to Virginia Opera on the East coast.\u00a0 Morales has recently completed two years with Virginia Opera\u2019s Heardon Foundation Emerging Artist\u2019s Program with highlights including Bartolo in Il Barbiere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5775,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5818","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5818","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=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5818\/revisions\/6041"}],"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=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}