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Dr. Diane Bolden-Taylor
Diane Bolden-Taylor is Professor of Music and Voice Area Head at the University
of Northern Colorado (UNC) in Greeley, Colorado. She completed her
undergraduate studies at Millikin University, and her Master’s Degree in Vocal
Performance at Indiana University. She completed her DMA degree in Vocal
Performance at the University of Texas at Austin.
For well over 17 years she lived in Europe, where she
performed with several major orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic,
the Berlin Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Bonn and Palma di
Mallorca. Her opera and concert engagements have taken her throughout
Europe, India, and Africa. She has performed operatic roles in various opera
houses including the Zürich and Basel opera houses in Switzerland, the Bonn
and Stuttgart opera houses in Germany, Opera Colorado in Denver and Festa
Musica Pro in Asisi, Italy.
Her roles include Mimi in La Boheme, Michaela in Carmen, Bess in Porgy and
Bess, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Nedda in Pagliacci, the First Lady in the
Magic Flute (performed at the Zurich Opera House, conducted by Ferdinand
Leitner), Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutti, Madama Butterfly in Puccini’s Madame
Butterfly, and Conception in Ravel’s L’heure Espanol. Also among her credits
are Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Dvorak’s
Stabat Mater, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah,
Adolphus Hailstork’s Four Spirituals performed with the St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra in Powel Hall, and most standard oratorios and chamber music.
These include John Rutter’s Requiem, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Villa
Lobos, and Bruckner’s Te Deum conducted by internationally acclaimed
conductor Helmut Rilling.
She performed Karol Ruzicka’s Celebration Mass (written especially for her) at
the 1991 International Jazz Festival in Prague, Czechoslovakia. From this genre
she also performed Gershwin song recitals throughout Germany, Italy and
Holland.
While living in Europe Ms. Bolden-Taylor also performed roles in various
operettas such as Annina in J. Strauss’ A Night in Venice, Kurfürstin Marie in
Zeller’s Der Vogelhandler, Janka in Dostal’s Hungarische Hochzeit, and
Valencienne in Lehar’s The Merry Widow.
She has performed recitals (with song literature spanning four centuries) and
voice master classes both in the U.S. and in Europe. In addition to teaching
voice, she specializes in teaching foreign language diction classes and
performing lecture recitals, which focus on the art songs of black composers.
She has coordinated and taught voice for Summer Vocal Workshops in the Mid-
West that offer instruction in voice, music theory, lyric diction....
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