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WIU Assistant Professor of Voice Penelope Shumate
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Shumate to Perform at Carnegie Hall

May 7, 2015

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MACOMB, IL - Western Illinois University Assistant Professor of Music Penelope Shumate will make a return appearance to Carnegie Hall as part of Verdi's "Messa da Requiem," Sunday, May, 24 in New York City, NY.

The performance, which begins at 8:30 p.m. in Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, is part of Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY). The work for chorus, soloists and orchestra contains intense drama and beautiful melodies.

Shumate will perform in this famous work as the soprano soloist. She last appeared with DCINY as a soprano soloist for "Messiah…Refreshed!" at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, for which the New York Times said she "sang the soprano solos with appealing bell-like clarity and surpassing sweetness."

She has appeared with opera companies and orchestras across America, including the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Roanoke, Opera Saratoga, Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, Berkshire Choral Festival, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, among others.

She is an award winner with the Gerda Lissner Foundation, Marie E. Crump Vocal Arts Competition, MacAllister Awards, New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Vocal Competition, Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition, Kennett Symphony Orchestra Vocal Competition and the Altamura/Caruso International Vocal Competition, among others.



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