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Faculty: Mee-Ae Nam
Soprano MeeAe Cecilia Nam has appeared as soloist in operas, concerts, and recitals in the United States, Germany, Austria, and her native South Korea. Her artistry encompasses a wide range of vocal repertoire that includes composers as diverse as J. S. Bach, or the avantgardist Gyorgy Kúrtag She has performed as guest artist with numerous ensembles including Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Evergreen Chamber Orchestra, the Jefferson Symphony, the Ariel Trio, the DaVinci String Quartet, the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony and Colorado Chamber Players. She also sang “Pamina” in The Magic Flute and “Clori” in L’Egisto with the CU Lyric Theatre. Recent appearances as guest soloist were with Colorado Symphony Orchestra in the Most Romantic Classics, the Larimer Chorale and the Fort Collins Symphony in Mozart’s Grand Mass in C minor, the Evergreen Chamber Orchestra in Canteloube’s “Chants d’Auvergne,” the Colorado Chamber Players in Kurtág’s “Kafka-Fragmente,” and the Mozarteum Orchestra in Mozart’s “Coronation Mass” and “Exultate, jubilate” during the Salzburg International Summer Festival. Dr. Nam earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is Assistant Professor of voice at Metropolitan State College of Denver where she serves as chair of the vocal studies program. In 2001 the MTNA invited Dr. Nam together with the Ariel Trio for their National Convention to sing “Voice of the River Han (2001)” written for her by David Mullikin. In June in 2001 and 2002 she was a guest recitalist and lecturer at the conference of the State Colorado Music Teacher’s Association and in March 2003 she gave a lecture recital at the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2002, 2004 and 2005 she was invited to perform series of recitals for Organ and voice in Salzburg, Austria and in Germany during the summer music festival. Her upcoming concerts include Joseph Dorfman’s one act opera “Shulamith” for soprano and percussions in Denver and California in 2006, “Italian Opera Arias” with the Littleton Symphony Orchestra and a series of recitals with Dr. Horst Buchholz, organist, in Germany, and a performance of Mozart’s Requiem during 250th anniversary celebration in Salzburg, Austria, in the summer of 2006. “Soprano Mee-Ae Nam has a voice of surprising power for so petite a frame, accurate in intonation, well-supported in delivery and with sly bits of interpretation thrown in.”
“A clear, well-supported voice that moves easily in its registers. .....extra care in projecting words,....in Fauré’s “Les Roses d’Ispahan” her projection was that of fantasy to match the text’s evocations of poetic grandeur.”
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