Hendricks to host master class, Q&A in Westbrook Music Building

Barbara Hendricks
Barbara Hendricks

Hendricks to host master class, Q&A in Westbrook Music Building

calendar icon01 Apr 2015    

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music is excited to have Barbara Hendricks in the Westbrook Music Building later this week.

 

On Thursday afternoon, May 7, from 3:00-4:30 p.m., Ms. Hendricks will present a master class to UNL voice students in Room 119, Westbrook Music Building, with a light reception to follow.

 

On Friday, May 8, from 3:00-4:30 p.m., again in Room 119, Westbrook Music Building, she will provide a public interview and Q&A about her remarkable career as an international opera celebrity, a jazz performer, a film star, and a United Nations humanitarian. 

 

Barbara Hendricks bio:

Barbara Hendricks was born in Arkansas, USA and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Chemistry at the age of 20 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She later studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Jennie Tourel. In 1974 she made her operatic debut at the San Francisco Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival as well as her recital debut in New York City's Town Hall.

HER CAREER

Since that moment, Barbara Hendricks' career and artistry has never ceased to grow and she has become one of the world's most loved and admired musicians. She has sung on all the major opera stages in the world including the Paris Opera, the MET in New York, Covent Garden in London and La Scala in Milano.

A LEADING INTERPRETER

She has been acclaimed as one of the most active recitalists of her generation and in addition to her vast repertoire of German Lieder she is also known as a leading interpreter and staunch promoter of French, American and Scandinavian music. Barbara Hendricks also made numerous world creations of composers such as Gilbert Amy, David Del Tredici, Tobias Picker, Mari Takano, Bruno Mantovani, Krzysztof Penderecki, Arvo Pärt and Sven-David Sandström, and most recently in 2004 in Paris, the role of The Angel in Peter Eötvös'opera Angels in America.

HUMANITARIAN COMMITMENT

After nearly 20 years of untiring service to the cause of refugees in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency she has been named the only Honorary Ambassador for Life by the UNHCR and is given special tasks that demand her long unparalleled experience and commitment. At the end of 1991 and 1993, she gave two solidarity concerts in war-ridden former Yugoslavia (Dubrovnik and Sarajevo). In 1998 she founded the Barbara Hendricks Foundation for Peace and Reconciliation to personalize her struggle for the prevention of conflicts in the world and to facilitate reconciliation and enduring peace where conflicts have already occurred.