Dr. Virginia Sublett

Associate Professor
Voice, Opera

E-Mail: Virginia.Sublett@ndsu.edu
Office: 218F Music Education Building
Phone: (701) 231-8258

Degrees:

• D.M.A., University of California, San Diego
• M.A., University of California, San Diego
• B.M., Louisiana State University

Virginia Sublett joined the faculty in 2004 as Associate Professor of music, teaching applied voice, opera theatre and voice-related academic subjects. She has also taught at both the University of California, San Diego, and the University of San Diego.

Dr. Sublett has appeared as a principal artist with opera companies throughout the United States and France. She appeared as Queen of the Night in Magic Flute with New York City Opera, San Diego Opera, and Central City Opera; and at Los Angeles Opera as Nannetta in Falstaff and Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She also appeared as the Fire and the Nightingale in New York City Opera’s Maurice Sendak production of L’Enfant et les sortileges. Her European debut was with L’Opera de Nice, France, as Ismene in Mitridate, and she returned there as Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito. In November 2008, she is scheduled to appear with the Fargo Moorhead Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

Dr. Sublett has appeared frequently as soprano soloist with orchestras, oratorio societies and chamber music ensembles throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico, including such ensembles as Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mainly Mozart, Illinois Symphony, Vancouver Chamber Choir, and Pacific Symphony. Recent appearances have included Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the La Jolla Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and with the NDSU Baroque Festival, and Haydn’s Creation with the Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music.

Particularly at home in music of the 17th and 18th centuries, Dr. Sublett has appeared with numerous period instrument ensembles, among them the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, and appears regularly at the NDSU Baroque Festival. Dr. Sublett is also in demand as a soloist in repertoire of the 20th Century and often has been featured in concerts of new music.

Dr. Sublett is co-founder and co-director of the San Diego-based professional choral ensemble, Cappella Gloriana, which made its second European tour in 2005 and has released three CDs. In February 2008, she was featured as guest conductor of the FM Chamber Chorale in a concert devoted to English choral music.

Dr. Sublett's students are active performers and music scholars. Her students have been featured soloists with the Los Angeles Opera, San Diego Opera, Orquestra de Baja California, and the Festival de Homenage a Augustin Lara, and have appeared as choristers with Opera London and the London Philharmonic Choir. They have gone on to graduate programs at USC, Carlifornia State University, Fullerton, and Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

For more information contact Kay Beckermann , (701) 231-9564
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