Jacquelyn Culpepper

Artist Associate in Voice
Sloan Music Center B 017

P. O. Box 7131
Davidson, NC 28035-7131
704.894.2414
704.894.2593 (fax)

FEDEX/UPS
209 Ridge Road
Davidson, NC 28036-7131

2005 was a year of travel for soprano Jacquelyn Culpepper. She sang her 10th season at the Breckenridge (Colorado) Music Festival after concerts in Brunei and Taipei, Taiwan where she also was voice faculty for TISBA, the Taiwan International Summer Broadway Academy. She was presented in concerts in Argentina and in the Dominican Republic, traveled to Ohio to sing Gershwin with the Canton Symphony, sang First Lady in productions of Mozart’s Magic Flute with both Piedmont Opera and Opera Carolina, and sang Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915 with the Salisbury (NC ) Symphony, and Holiday Pops with the Asheville Symphony. Upcoming performances include Handel’s Jephtha with the Piedmont Chamber Singers, “Three Sopranos” with the Charlotte Philharmonic and Strauss’ Four Last Songs next year in Colorado.

 Jacquelyn Culpepper’s lyric soprano voice has taken her across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Highlights include 85 roles in opera and oratorio and 4 concert tours of American music in Europe. Featured in 3 national public television specials, Culpepper’s performances have taken her to prestigious concert venues such as Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to Atlanta’s Symphony Hall, and in performances with the late, internationally-renowned conductor Robert Shaw. She sang the American premiere of Martinu’s Epic of Gilgamesh, Locklair’s Good Tidings of the Holy Beast, the North Carolina premiere of The Crucible as Abigail, and subsequently continued her work with Dr. Ward singing Heloise in Ward’s final stages of scene work for his world premiere of Abelard and Heloise.

Nationally, she has been guest solo artist with symphony orchestras, opera companies, and music festivals across the United States, including the American Music Festival, Asheville Symphony, Berkshire Choral Festival, Brevard Music Center, Blowing Rock Chamber Music Festival, Boca Raton Symphony, Canton Ohio Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Cullowhee Music Festival, Duke University’s Contemporary Music Festival, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Greensboro Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Nebraska Chamber Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, North Carolina School of the Arts, Raleigh Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Winston Salem Symphony, Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera, Triangle Opera, and others.

Jacquelyn has appeared many times on public and commercial television and radio stations. An Evening with Cole Porter has been popular and broadcast for several years on PBS. She was featured in a Salute to Masterpiece Theatre with Jean Marsh and also recorded a recital for the South Carolina Television Network as a result of winning a National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award.

After thousands of performances and two decades of singing professionally, Jacquelyn Culpepper is sharing her vocal and performance expertise as artist associate at Davidson College where she founded a summer voice symposium for professional singers. A veteran voice teacher, she has previously served on the faculties of Meredith College, Gaston College, and Warren Wilson College. Her students have won numerous competitions, scholarships, and awards and many are currently working professionally. A frequent adjudicator, she has judged singers in many competitions including the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and the NATS Artist Awards. In addition to her work as a performer and teacher, she has served as an arts resource in the North Carolina Visiting Artist Program for Central Piedmont Community College, Gaston College, and Haywood Community College.

Career Highlights

• 85 roles in opera and oratorio
• 3 concert tours in Europe-France, Germany, Belgium
• American Embassy Performances- Germany, Dominican Republic
• Recital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Europe & end of WWII
• 3 National PBS Specials
• Concerts and recitals in Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei, Dominican Republic, Argentina
• Soloist at Berkshire Choral Festival with Robert Page, conducting
• Soloist Beethoven 9 with Robert Shaw conducting
• Kennedy Center performance
• Met Sampler at Atlanta’s Symphony Hall
• NC Premiere of The Crucible
• American Premiere of Martinu’s Epic of Gilgamesh
• Breckenridge Music Festival, resident soprano soloist, 1994-2005
• Performer roster for American Voices-see www.americanvoices.org
• Faculty for TISBA-Taiwan International Summer Broadway Academy
• Artist Associate of Voice for Davidson College
• Freeman Foundation Grant for East Asian Studies 2004, 2005

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