Lori Bade
Voice

BadeLori Bade, mezzo-soprano (Associate Professor of Voice and Vocal Arts Area Coordinator) has served as professor of voice at LSU since 1993 and Area Coordinator for the Vocal Arts Area since 1999. Bade brings a history of great successes from throughout the South, Southwest, and Washington state. She has achieved critical acclaim for her "fine voice, well produced with even tone and vibrato..." as well as "pure vocal beauty, who has a resplendent, coppery instrument whose ripe – Earth Mother – low register has no hint of growly chest tones." She has appeared with numerous opera companies including the Austin Lyric, New Orleans Mobile, Pensacola, Spokane, and Shreveport Opera. Bade has performed as mezzo soprano soloist singing major concert works of J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Duruflé, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, Rutter, Tippett and Vaughan Williams with such orchestras as the Austin, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Memphis, Virginia, Rapides, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, Pensacola, University of Chicago, and Louisiana Philharmonic.

Recent operatic engagements include the roles of Rebecca Nurse in THE CRUCIBLE (Mobile Opera); Suzuki in MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Pensacola Opera) and Siegrune in DIE WALKÜRE with the New Orleans Opera. Recent concert appearances as mezzo soprano soloist include Mahler's SYMPHONY NO.2 and Michael Tippett's A CHILD OF OUR TIME (Victoria Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Victoria and Austin, TX); Handel's MESSIAH (Austin and Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestras); Beethoven's SYMPHONY NO.9 (Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra); and De Falla's EL AMOR BRUJO (Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra).

Upcoming engagements include Mozart's C MINOR MASS, Canterbury Choral Society, Oklahoma City (October 2006); the Duruflé REQUIEM and the premiere of a Stephen Paulus commission with the Canterbury Choral Society, Oklahoma City (Spring 2007) and a return engagement with Mobile Opera singing Contessa in ANDREA CHENIER (Fall 2007). In demand as a vocal recitalist, Bade presented recitals throughout Texas durin the year 2006 as well as at the Universidade Federal do Piaui in Teresina, Brazin. Finally, as guest artist/teacher of voice, Bade will, for a second time, return to Salzburg, Austria during the summer of 2007 where she will serve for five weeks on the voice faculty in an overseas study program sponsored by the University of Miami.

Bade holds several singing honors and has been awarded prizes from the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, MacAllister Awards for Opera Singers, and the National Federation of Music Clubs. In addition, she twice received the "Tiger Excellence in Teaching Award" by Louisiana State University (1997 and 2005) as well as the "Outstanding Young Graduate Award" from Texas Lutheran University (1996). She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from The University of Texas at Austin where she was in the voice studio of Martha Deatherage.

Lori Bade, Associate Professor
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
Voice: 225/578-2645
Fax: 225/578-2562
E-mail:lbade1@lsu.edu



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