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Charles Kellis is a voice teacher in New York City. Former faculty member: University of Iowa, Southern Illinois university and for 16 years the Juilliard School. His students have appeared in most major opera houses in the world including: the Metropolitan, La Scala, Berlin, Covent Garden, Paris, Moscow, Hamburg, Barcelona, Zurich, Bayreuth Festival, Frankfurt, Glyndeborne, Zurich, Viennna, Aix en Provence Festival, Orange Festival, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City Opera.
He is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, and L’Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, with further studies as a Fullbright Scholar at L’Accademia Chigiana in Siena and L’Accademia Benedetto Marcello in Venice, Italy. His teachers include: Mariano Stabile, Sergio Nazor and Luigi Ricci and he participated in classes with Giovanni Martinelli and Tito Schipa.
Performed in Opera, Concert and Oratorio in Rome, Vienna, Athens, and Salzburg and on RAI Radio Televisione Italiana, Oestereichishe Rundfunk in Vienna and the National Radio of Athens. Greece: as former director of the Candlewood Choral Society he conducted the Hartford Symphony and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic; Master classes and seminars in Europe and USA; former music critic, Waterbury, Ct.; Panelist-speaker at Paul Robeson’s 100th birthday celebration at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
He has served as adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions and as a teacher for the Metropolitan Young Artists Program. His students have been winners in many prestigious international competitions including: Tchaikovsky, Cardiff Singer of the World, Metropolitan, Caruso, Maria Callas, Marion Anderson, Puccini Foundation, Lauren Zachary, Sullivan Award, Joyce Dutka, Arleen Auger, Bel Canto Vocal, the Munich International, Opera Index, Moniuszko in Warsaw and the Pavarotti Mozart Prize.
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Profesor Charles Kellis jest absolwentem Juilliard School w Nowym Jorku i Akademii Sw.Cecylii w Rzymie.Na dalsze studia w Akademii Chigiana w Sienie
i Akademii Benedetto Marcello w Wenecji otrzymal prestizowe rzadowe stipendium im.Fullbraita. Nauczycielami Charlsa Kellisa byli: Mariano Stabile, Sergio Nazor i Luigi Ricci. Charles Kellis bral udzial w kursach mistrzowskich prowadzonych przez Giovanni Martinelliego i Tito Schipe. Spiewal wiele koncertow, oper i oratoriow w Europie wlaczajac: Rzym, Wieden, Salzburg, Palermo.Spiewal dla
radia i telewizji RAI we Wloszech,Oestereichischer Rundfunk w Wiedniu i dla krajowego radia w Atenach,Grecja.
Charles Kellis jako dyrektor artystyczny i dyrygent Candlewood Choral Society dyrygowal Orkiestra Symfoniczna z Hartford i Filharmonikami z Hudson. Byl krytykiem muzycznym dla gazety "Waterbury American" w Stanie Connecticut. Z okazji obchodow 100 rocznicy urodzin Paula Robesona poproszono Charlsa Kellisa o wygloszenie przemowienia na Uniwersytecie Rutgers. Charles Kellis uczyl w Metropolitan Opera mlodych spiewakow, ktorzy zostali, w drodze skrupulatnej selekcji, czlonkami Young Artist Program. Byl rowniez czlonkiem komisji w przesluchaniach do Metropolitan Opera. W latach 1961 - 97 byl nauczycielem swiatowej slawy bas- barytona,Simona Estesa . Jego studenci spiewali na najznakomitszych scenach operowych w Europie i U.S.A. : Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Berlin, Covent Garden, Paryz, Moskwa , Frankfurt, Glyndeborne, Hamburg, Barcelona, Zurich, Orange,Chicago,San Francisco i New York City Opera.
Jego studenci byli laureatami wielu waznych miedzynarodowych konkursow wokalnych wlaczajac:Czajkowskiego, Cardiffa, Metropolitan, Caruso, Maria Callas, Marian Anderson, Puccini Foundation, Lauren Zachary, Sullivan Award, Joyce Dutka, Arleen Auger, Bel Canto Vocal, Bayerische Rundfunk ,Opera Index, Moniuszko i w konkursie Pavarottiego - nagroda za dziela Mozarta.
Charles Kellis wykladal spiew solowy w: Southern Illinois University, Uniwersytecie w Iowa oraz w Juilliard School w Nowym Jorku (16 lat).
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19.02.2006 J. fot. Malgorzata Fliszkiewicz, Robert Grudzien, Charles Kellis
After The Organ Recital in New York
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St. Paul`s Chapel, Columbia University, 116th Street at Broadway, New York, USA
February 19, 2006 J., 2 pm
The Organ Recital
ROBERT GRUDZIEN - ORGAN /POLAND
THE PROGRAM:
SAWA, MOZART, BARTOK, BACH
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