Voice and Piano
Jennifer Beattie Hailed by Opera News for her “exuberant voice and personality,” mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie is a versatile and dynamic performer in styles ranging from opera to chamber music and musical theater to cabaret. This past season included her solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Rossen Milanov, as well “The American Songbook” concert on the Stotsenberg Recital Series in Malibu, CA with pianist/ composer John Musto at the piano. This season she will make her debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, singing in the Madrigal Quartet in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, as well as being soloist in the Mozart Requiem with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia under the baton of Alan Harler, and giving several recitals in the Philadelphia and D.C. areas.
As an avid interpreter of new music, Ms. Beattie has premiered many pieces written for her voice. In opera she created the roles of the Mermaid in Mermaid in a Jar by Rachel Peters (2nd Avenue Songbook, NYC) and Mrs. Pinch in The Araboolies of Liberty Street by Ron Perera (Manhattan School of Music). In 2009 she sang the mezzo solo in the premiere of Tom Cipullo’s Insomnia at the SongFest music festival in Malibu, CA. Ms. Beattie has also been Artist-in-Residence at Yale University for several seasons (with the Yale College composers), and has premiered many Yale student and faculty compositions with pianist Adam Marks. Ms. Beattie also recently appeared in Philadelphia singing the Three Shakespeare Sonnets by Mohammed Fairouz with members of the Mimesis Ensemble. The summer of 2012 will mark her second season as Vocalist-in-Residence with New Music On The Point.
Ms. Beattie is also a sought-after recitalist dedicated to the performance of art song, appearing in concert at such venues as Lincoln Center, The National Arts Club, The Juilliard School, Riverside Church, The Manhattan School of Music, and the Yamaha Artist’s Salon. She has
been a featured performer with the Vocal Arts Society of Washington D.C.’s education series, The Texas Music Festival, The National Association of Teachers of Singing Conferences in VA and SC, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as performing and interviewing on NPR. Her innovative presentation with pianist Adam Marks of Aaron Copland’s 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson in San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series was deemed a “smashing success in both conception and execution” by Stephen Smolier of the San Francisco Classical
Examiner.
On the concert stage Ms. Beattie has performed in Stravinsky’s Les Noces under the baton of Gil Ordonez at the Strathmore Music Center, as well as the mezzo-soprano solo in Haydn’s Nelsonmesse at the Zoellner Arts Center with Stephen Caldwell. She has also sung the mezzo solos in the Duruflé Requiem (Christ Church Philadelphia), the Mozart Requiem (Moravian Choir and Orchestra), and appeared as soloist in a newly-staged production of Peer Gynt with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. On the opera stage she has sung the roles of the Abbess and the Monitor in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with ConcertOPERA of Philadelphia, as Mimi (cover) in La Bohème with the Eastern Festival Opera and as a soloist in Die Fledermaus (concert version) with the National Chorale in Carnegie Hall.
Ms. Beattie’s awards include The Marc and Eva Stern Fellowship for SongFest (2009), as well a fellowship with The New Triad for Collaborative Arts in NYC. In 2008 she was a prizewinner in the David Adams Art Song Competition (NYC). She has also been featured in the Joy in Singing masterclasses at Lincoln Center, in Classical Singer magazine, and on National Public Radio.
Donna Hallen Loewy is Field Service Professor of Accompanying and Accompanist-in-Residence at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Loewy has prepared and accompanied many top prize winners of the National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Competition, NATS Artist Awards, D’Angelo Competition and the Montreal Concours International de Musique. She is much in demand as a collaborative pianist and master class teacher, performing frequently throughout the United States.
Ms. Loewy is the official accompanist for the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Southern Ohio region, and has held similar positions with the International Clarinet Conference, the Congress of Strings, the International Double Reed Society, the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Winners Recital, Tubamania in Sydney, Australia, and the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference.
Donna has worked as an opera coach with the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy, Cincinnati Opera and Dayton Opera. Ms. Loewy coached vocal chamber music for the Grandin Festival in Cincinnati yearly and was Chamber Music Coordinator for the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy. In the summer of 2010, she was a faculty coach and pianist at SongFest at Pepperdine in Malibu, CA.
With tenor Daniel Weeks, Donna was presented by the Marilyn Horne Foundation (MHF) in recitals and residencies at the Kosciusko Foundation in New York, the Cleveland Art Song Festival, the Mozart Society of Carmel, California, and various venues in Louisiana, Florida, and Indiana.
In 2005, baritone Andrew Garland and Ms. Loewy presented their first concert of Living American Composers for the Marilyn Horne Foundation in New York. Since then, they have performed at Carnegie Hall, the Phillips Collection and the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, Art Song of Williamsburg, Fanfare in Louisiana, the Huntsville Chamber Music Society, Meng Concert Hall in Fullerton, CA, The Modern at Fort Worth, the Cerritos Center in Cerritos, CA., the Andre Turp Society in Montreal, St. Stephens College in Pennsylvania and other venues. Composers
who have been featured include: Tom Cipullo, David Conte, Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, Steven Mark Kohn, Lori Laitman, Thomas Pasatieri, Stephen Paulus, and Jeffrey Wood. Mr. Garland and Ms. Loewy’s recording of On the Other Shore, which includes all of the folk song settings of
Steven Mark Kohn has garnered much praise.
Ms. Loewy is the voice consultant and co-author of the Inner Game of Music Vocal Workbook, written with Barry Green, author of the Inner Game of Music.
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Faculty since 1976.
