Prescott Fine Arts Association is pleased to be able to present the unique opportunity of a Voice Master Class featuring Charles Taylor and Kamal Khan on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 from 3 to 5 pm. This is your opportunity to work one-on-one with Metropolitan Opera baritone Charles Taylor on vocal technique, musical and dramatic interpretation as well as audition preparation. Additionally, coach, pianist and conductor Kamal Khan will be on hand to lend his vast expertise and experience.

Don't miss this opportunity! Mr. Taylor and Mr. Khan will work with a maximum of ten students. Tuition is $25. Interested observers are most welcome to attend. Door admission to sit in on the master class is $5. All proceeds will benefit the Prescott Fine Arts Association Scholarship Program.

To be among the ten students to work with Mr. Taylor and Mr. Khan please bring your $25 tuition payment to the PFAA box office located at 208 North Marina Street, Prescott between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Prescott Fine Arts Association is pleased to present the Voice Master Class in collaboration with Iron Springs Opera. For more information about Iron Springs Opera, please refer to their website www.ironspringsopera.org. Their mission is to provide unique performances of the highest quality using Arizona artists to establish the arts as a basic part of daily life by educating and entertaining audiences of all ages. Iron Springs Opera is proud to work in association with Showcase Concerts, Inc.

Biography - Charles Taylor, Baritone

A native of Arizona, Charles Taylor has been praised for the beauty and power of his nascent Verdian voice. He is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, which he joined at the beginning of the 2002-2003 season after being selected as a winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2001. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut that season in the role of the Herald in Otello.

During the 2006/7 season, Charles Taylor has sung Germont in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera opposite Hei-Kyung Hong and conducted by Carlo Rizzi. He has sung Roucher in Andrea Chenier there opposite Ben Heppner. He made his role debut as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera with Opera Colorado in a new James Robinson production conducted by David Agler. His season concludes with Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana (another role debut) and Tonio in I Pagliacci with Opera Ft. Collins. He will return to the Met in numerous roles in the 2007/8 season as well as making his debut with Minnesota Opera.

Mr. Taylor was a prizewinner at the 2002 Liederkranz Foundation Competition and First Place winner in the 1999 High Plains Singing Competition Senior Division. Mr. Taylor has recently been selected as a recitalist for the Marylin Horne Foundation, and a scholarship recipient for the Wagner Society of New York.

For more information on Charles Taylor please go to http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=492 .

Biography – Kamal Khan, Coach, Pianist, Conductor

American conductor, pianist, and recitalist, Kamal Khan brings a wide and distinguished array of experience to the PFAA Voice Master Class. Most recently Mr. Khan was the Resident Conductor and Chorus Master of the Palm Beach Opera where he has conducted La Traviata, Manon Lescaut, La Bohéme, I Puritani, and Die Zauberflöte as well as the Vocal Competition Winners Concerts and gala concerts including the Bryn Terfel and Friends Benefit Gala in 2004. Other performances include Tosca in La Coruña Festival in Spain, Nabucco and Die Zauberflöte in Cape Town and concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oviedo. Upcoming engagements include La Sonnambula at the La Coruña Festival, Le Nozze di Figaro in Cape Town, and Carmen at the Teatro de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

A regular guest conductor around the world, Kamal Khan has performed at Dallas Opera, Baltimore Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janiero, Teatro Municipal in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Teatro de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Oper der Stadt Bonn and Mecklenburgischen Staatstheaters Schwerin in Germany, the Opera de Santander, Mérida, La Coruña and Málaga in Spain, and the Macau International Music Festival, among others. He has also conducted the Jerusalem Symphony, the Sao Paulo Philharmonic, the Bejing Symphony, the Shanghai Symphony, the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Belearic Islands Philharmonic, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oviedo, the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

As a recitalist, Kamal Khan has collaborated with many singers and appeared on many stages in the US, Europe and Japan including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Weill Recital Hall in New York, Suntory Hall and Cassals Hall in Tokyo, the Gran Teatro Liceu and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona and the Palau de Congressos in Andorra.

Kamal Khan was assistant to James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera from 1988-1997 as well as Assistant Conductor and Cover Conductor where he worked with many of the important singers and conductors of our time. He has been Resident Conductor of the Opera Festival in Tenerife and is Main Guest Conductor of the Cape Town Opera in South Africa.

A native of Washington DC, Kamal Khan has received prizes and grants from the National Foundation for the Advancements of the Arts, the National Association of Music Teachers, and the National Symphony Orchestra.

Kamal Khan has taught at the European Center for Opera and Vocal Arts, IVAI in Tel-Aviv, and the Manhattan School of Music. He joins the faculty of Mannes College of Music for the 2006/2007 school year.

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