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Sylvie BeaudetteAssistant Professor of Chamber Music & Accompanying, part timeFrench Lyric Diction and Elementary French II for Voice Majors Artistic Director, Women in Music Festival Born in Québec, pianist Sylvie Beaudette has a diversified career as a collaborative artist, vocal and instrumental coach, soloist, and teacher. She has performed with several artists and groups in Canada, USA, and Switzerland. As a member of the Athena Trio, she performed extensively in Northern California, Pennsylvania and New York States, and recorded Fabulous Femmes, a CD of music by women composers released on the Centaur label in July 2000. She has also appeared on clarinetist Richard Nunemaker’s critically acclaimed CD Multiplicities. With soprano Eileen Strempel, she has been performing since 1998 in New York City, Rochester, Syracuse, Boston, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Toronto, and Montréal. Their discography includes: With All My Soul (Oasis), featuring music by Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Lili Boulanger, and previously unrecorded mélodies by Marie de Grandval, and love lies bleeding: songs by Libby Larsen, (Centaur). Their latest disc features settings of Margaret Atwood poems, composed expressly for them by some of the top female composers of our time, including Libby Larsen, Lori Laitman, Amanda Harberg, Elisenda Fábregas, Tania León, and Judith Cloud slated for release in 2008. A graduate from the Eastman School of Music with a doctorate in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music, Sylvie Beaudette has given guest lectures on the history of French mélodie in Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. As diction coach, Dr. Beaudette has worked at the Houston Grand Opera in preparation for Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment and at the Université de Sherbrooke, Québec where she taught lyric diction to master's degree candidates in Choral Conducting. Dr. Beaudette worked as a faculty member at Syracuse University, and at California State University at Chico, where she created an undergraduate program in Piano Accompanying for the Music Department. She was recently awarded the 2007 citation from the New York State Music Teachers Association for her musical contributions as a whole as well as her service to the organization as chair of the Commissioned Composer program. She is currently working at the Eastman School of Music as Assistant Professor of Chamber Music and Accompanying and is the founder and artistic director of Eastman’s Women in Music Festival. Festival’s website: www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf |