Classical Voice Faculty: Jocelyn Dueck

Pianist Jocelyn Dueck has performed in recent months at Symphony Space, New York, Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City with baritone Jesse Blumberg, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival in her native Canada, Vienna, Austria, and in venues across China with sibling pianists Dueck Three. Her collaborative engagements include performances at Alice Tully Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood fellow, 2004), the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series, CBC Radio, and NPR's Talking Volumes. In addition to being a founding member of the new music duo Two Sides Sounding with Eleanor Taylor, soprano, Dr. Dueck is music director for the dynamic opera collective Ensemble Youkali, and a featured artist on the rosters of The Phoenix Players, the Five Boroughs Music Festival, and the Bhakti Project with Anne-Carolyn Bird and Judd Greenstein, all based in New York City.

A frequent performer of new music, Dr. Dueck collaborated on the Princeton Atelier premiere of The Antient Concert by composer Daron Hagen and poet Paul Muldoon. She was the coach/accompanist for subsequent performances at Symphony Space and the Century Association, as well as Hagen's one-act opera Broken Pieces. Currently, she is involved in workshops of his opera Amelia, which will premiere at Seattle Opera in 2010. She has debuted works by Lisa Bielawa, Corey Dargel,Louis Durey, Judd Greenstein, Daron Hagen, Edie Hill, and Gilda Lyons.

In the fall of 2003, Dr. Dueck was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation International Research Fellowship from the University of Minnesota Graduate School and traveled to Paris to meet with the family of French composer Louis Durey, a member of Les Six. She is documenting the unpublished song cycles of Durey, a gracious gift of his daughter, Arlette Durey. She completed the D.M.A. in Accompanying and Coaching under Professors Margo Garrett and Karl Paulnack at the University of Minnesota in March of 2004. She has been on the faculty there as well as the music staff of Glimmerglass Opera (2005, 2006) and is currently an adjunct professor at NYU.

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