The Conservatory is pleased to note that mezzo soprano graduate student Alice Chung (Performer's Certificate) makes her debut with the Kansas City Symphony April 13–15, 2018, Helzberg Hall stage at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, singing in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.
Ms. Chung won the Kansas City Districts for the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, and recently competed and was awarded 2nd place in the Midwest Regionals. She has also received the Paula Kramer Award for Voice through Sigma Alpha Iota, and the Marilyn Miller Scholarship for Voice through the Kansas City Musical Club Scholarship Competition. Ms. Chung also received a Young Artist Encouragement Award from the Chautauqua Opera Guild, and was the first vocalist to win the UCSB Chamber Music Competition, competing with Brahms’s Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91.
Most recently, Chung performed the role of Madame Larina in Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s production of Eugene Onegin. Chung also performed Die Hexe in the Conservatory's production of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel.
Congratulations!