ABOUT ME
JUDITH FARRIS VOCAL TEACHER‘I’m dedicated to finding and developing your true voice.”
About
Judith began her private voice studio in New York City as an addition to a busy singing career. Her specialty is achieving quick positive voice results for professional singers, actors, dancers and public speakers. This has made her one of the most sought-after teachers in the New York City theater community.
Some of Judith’s clientele over the years include: the famed lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Kaye Ballard, Tyne Daly, Marilu Henner, Cheryl Ladd, Matthew Broderick, Donna McKechnie, Victor Garber, Anthony Quinn, Peter Allen, Julie Wilson, Tony Goldwyn, Marcia Lewis, and Lauren Bacall.
Her students have performed principal and chorus roles in Broadway productions of Cabaret, Beauty and the Beast, Chicago, The Producers, Movin’ Out, Annie Get Your Gun, Sweet Smell of Success, Gypsy, and many others.
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Awards
Minna Kaufman Award – N.Y.C.
Metropolitan Opera – Kathryn Long Grant
Marian Anderson Grant – Philadelphia
Spanish Institute of N.Y.C. – Lucrezia Bori Award
Southeast Missouri State University – Outstanding Alumni Award
Zonta Club in Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Woman of Achievement Award
Performances
Contralto Soloist
National Symphony – Kennedy Center
Tanglewood – Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) Seigi Ozawa, Conductor
Newport Jazz Festival
New York Philharmonic- Handel’s Creation – Zubin Mehta, Conductor
Mormon Tabernacle Choir – Messiah Soloist
N.Y.C. = St. John’s Passion (J.S. Bach) – Musica Sacra
N.Y.C. = Brahms Alto Rhapsody -Musica Sacra
Baltimore Choral Arts Society – Israel and Egypt (Handel)
Capital Hill Choral Society – Albany, N.Y.
Carnegie Hall – Verdi Requiem – Zubin Mehta, Conductor
Carnegie Hall – Handel Society – L’Orfeo – Monteverdi
St. Louis Symphony – Handel’s Messiah
Stokowski’s American Symphony – J.S. Bach Contata
Recitals
Lincoln Center – Alice Tully Hall
Stokowski American Symphony – Town Hall – N.Y.C.
Southeast Missouri State University
Opera
Santa Fe Opera = Wagner’s Flying Dutchman (Frau Mary)
Santa Fe Opera – World Premiere Villa/Lobos’s Yerma
Tulsa Opera – Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance (Ruth)
Washington Opera – Donazetti’s Lucia (Alica)
Toronto Opera – Andrea Chenier (Madelon) Julius Rudel, Conductor
New York Caramoor Festival – Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Fort Worth Opera – Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Mother)
Connecticut Grand Opera – Verdi’s Un Bello in Maschera (Ulrica)
Virginia Opera Company – Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Principessa)
Chicago Opera Theater – Menotti’s The Consul (Mother)
Kennedy Center Opera House – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (Nettie)
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