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IOTA HA LP S am honored and privileged to be the recipient of the 2010 W AR SAI Career Performance Grant. I was initiated into the SAI DS Xi Chapter at Lawrence University in 2005 as a freshman, and 2010 then, upon my transferring to the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music (CCM) in 2006, I was initiated into the Eta-Iota Chapter, where I served as President from 2007-2008. Now a member of the Cincinnati Alumnae Chapter, where I serve as co-Editor, SAI has been, and will continue to be, a wonderful, rewarding, and dear part of my life. I am currently in my first year of doctoral studies in voice at CCM where I am a voice teaching assistant and study with William McGraw. For summers 2009 and 2010, I have been a Studio Artist with Central City Opera in Central City, Colorado, and word of my receiving the SAI Career Performance Grant came to me while I was in residence in Central City this past summer. At Central City Opera in 2009, I performed the mainstage roles of Fredrika in Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Sirena in the family performance of Handel's Rindaldo. I also performed partial roles of Lakmé in Delibes's Lakmé, Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, and Laurie in Copland's The Tender Land. In summer 2010 at Central City Opera, I performed as a Geisha in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and was a featured dancer in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld (I have seven years of ballet and en pointe training, and it was such fun to do more dancing than singing in a production for the first time since my years of dance study). I also performed partial roles of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Lisavetta in Hoiby's A Month in the Country, Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen, and Laetitia in Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief. I will be returning to Central City Opera this November to be a young artist in a two-week touring outreach program, performing for local schools and the community. My performing and educational experiences at Central City Opera have given me valuable information for managing my career and have nurtured my development as an artist. I am so grateful to be the recipient of the 2010 SAI Career Performance Grant, as well as to be a part of Sigma Alpha Iota. I strive to uphold SAI's ideals as a performer, student, teacher, and lover of music. Metcalf, Josh Deutsch, and Rodney Rogers. She was the only singer to win the Midwest Young Artists National Concerto Competition, resulting in a performance with the MYA Alumni Orchestra at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, and a performance of Signor Deluso with the Midwest Young Artists Opera, in which she sang the role of Célie. She performed as soloist for two seasons with the International Young Artists Music Festival in Hilton Head, South Carolina with renowned pianist Christopher O'Riley, and was invited twice to sing on Public Radio International's From the Top, singing two duets with Bobby McFerrin in her most recent appearance. For two consecutive years, Alisa has been a studio artist with Central City Opera, performing mainstage roles such as Fredrika (A Little Night Music) with artists such as Sylvia NcNair, Myrna Paris, and Robert Orth, and Sirena in the family performance of Handel's Rinaldo. Also at Central City Opera, Alisa has sung partial roles including Gilda (Rigoletto), the title role in Lakmé, Lisavetta (A Month in the Country), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), A A SIGMA A Alis a Su zanne Jordh eim Cincinnati Alumnae Chapter, University of Cincinnati College Conser vatory of Music, Sigma A, Region VII native of Appleton, Wisconsin, Alisa Suzanne Jordheim's lyric soprano "has that measure of quick spin that keeps it rock steady in all registers" (Northeast Wisconsin Music Review). Alisa is the recipient of a Central City Opera Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program Award, Audience Favorite Award in the Tri-State College Vocal Competition, NFAA Level I Arts Award, Sigma Alpha Iota Career Performance Grant, and teaching assistantship at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She was the recipient of the Nell M. Menn scholarship for music, the Wyman and Ethel Ward Boeckh scholarships at CCM, the Trustee Performance Scholarship at Lawrence University, and was offered the Juilliard Alumni Scholarship in 2006. For four consecutive years, Alisa took first place in the Wisconsin Chapter of NATS, and has twice been a finalist in the Palm Beach Opera Competition – Junior Division. Composers who have composed songs for Alisa include Lori Laitman, Joanne ILANTHROPIE IN MEMORY OF VERNA ROSS ORNDROFF ($5,000) I P PH CAREER PERFORMANCE GRANT N T HR O ILA H Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief), Frasquita (Carmen), and Laurie (The Tender Land). After transferring from Lawrence University in 2006 where she studied with Patrice Michaels, Alisa earned her B. Mus. and M. Mus. degrees from CCM, where she is currently a DMA voice student studying with William McGraw. At CCM, Alisa has performed the roles of Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Une Pâstourelle (L'enfant et les sortilèges), and the partial role of Mademoiselle Silberklang (Der Schauspieldirektor). Alisa has appeared as soloist with the Hilton Head Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, where she "looked and sounded like an angel" (Dayton Daily News), and the Fox Valley Symphony, where she "effortlessly touched upon the high notes" (Fox Valley Post-Crescent) in Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate, and sang "with cleanly chiseled fioratura… With her trim figure and lovely face complimenting her artistic persona, everything seems in place for an important career" (Northeast Wisconsin Music Review). sai-national.org FALL 2010 PAN PIPES 23

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