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Tara Shankar, mezzo-soprano
Tara Shankar
is currently working on a doctorate at the MIT Media Laboratory. She
performs frequently as a soloist with the MIT Chamber and Concert choirs,
as a soloist with MIT’s Chamber Music Society, and a recitalist
at MIT. She performed in Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem with the MIT
Concert choir and orchestra. Previous chamber music experience includes
John Harbison's Mirabai Songs, Ravel's Chanson Madecasses, Chausson's
Chanson Perpetuelle, and Respighi's il Tramonto, all performed at MIT.
As a 2001 recipient of MIT's Advanced Music Placement award and the
Gregory Tucker Memorial Award for Excellence in Vocal Performance, she
performed a recital of love songs, including Gabriel Faure's
La Bonne Chanson, a Handel cantata (Ho fuggito Amore),‘ and a
song cycle by Libby Larsen entitled Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many
Flowers. New music performances include Charles Shadle's new song ‘Presences,’
premiered in an April 2001 concert of new music at MIT. Opera and stage
experience includes Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (as Dido), Samuel
Barber's A Hand of Bridge operetta, and Donna Roll's Summer Opera Workshop
for Young Singers in 1998. Oratorio experience includes alto solos in
Mozart's Requiem and Handel’s Messiah. She studies voice with
Margaret O’Keefe and Nina Hinson. |
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Awards Gregory
Tucker Memorial Award for Excellence in Vocal Performance at MIT, 2001. Advanced
Music Performance Scholarship in Voice, 2000 (MIT). Emerson Music Performance Scholarship in Voice, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 (MIT). |
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Opera Dido and
Aeneas (as Dido) with William Cutter, Director, and the MIT Chamber Choir, 20
April 2002. Summer Opera
Workshop for Young Singers (“OperaFest”), directed by Donna Roll, July 1998. Pilgrim's
Progress by Vaughan Williams at Wilfrid Laurier University, Chorus
member, 1993. |
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Concerts Maurice
Durufle's Requiem, mezzo-soprano solo with orchestra and MIT Concert
Choir, May 2001. Beethoven’s Choral
Fantasy, alto solo in sextet with full orchestra and choir, 50th
Anniversary of MIT's Humanities and Social Sciences Department Gala Concert,
October 6, 2000. Aaron
Copland’s In the Beginning, mezzo-soprano solo with MIT Chamber Choir,
Spring 2000. Tech Review. Download mp3 (13.658Mb). R. Vaughan
William’s Mass in G Minor, alto solo, Spring 1999. |
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Oratorios Mozart's Requiem,
Alto soloist, the Masterworks Chorale Summer Sing, Lexington, MA, 2001. Alto solo
from Bach Cantata performed in Kresge Concert Hall by the MIT Chamber Choir,
1997. Handel’s Messiah,
Alto solos, for Spring Concert of Anglican Church, Albany, N.Y., 1995. |
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Recitals Brahms' Liebeslieder,
book II, for Winchester Music Society, June 2001. Recital of
love songs, including Gabriel Faure’s La Bonne Chanson cycle, Handel
cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore,' and Libby Larsen's cycle Beloved, Thou Hast
Brought Me Many Flowers, with cello and piano, 4 May 2001. Respighi's Il
Tramonto, mezzo-soprano solo with string quartet, MIT Chamber Music Society,
May 2001. Maurice
Ravel's Chansons Madecasses, mezzo-soprano, flute, cello and piano,
MIT Chamber Music Performance Program, Spring 2000 Irving Fine's
Mutability song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, MIT Emerson Music
Scholarship Program, Spring 2000, Honors Concert. Ernest
Chausson's Chanson Perpetuelle, mezzo-soprano solo with MIT Chamber
Music, Fall 1999 John
Harbison's Mirabai Songs, soprano solo with MIT Chamber Music Group,
Spring 1999. Emerson
Scholarship Recitals, MIT, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999. |
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