*DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS IN CONDUCTING
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"She was the one to watch"
-Boston Broadway Awards |
Ianthe Onelia Marini (Doctor of Musical Arts, AEA, AGMA) is the 2019 American Prize Winner in Conducting. She is an LA-based professional actress, conductor, singer, flutist, dancer, and University professor. She made her National Operatic debut with San Francisco Opera Company in the Pulitzer Prize winning opera OMAR, composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, originated the role of Myth in the world premiere of Hamed Sinno's opera WESTERLY BREATH with The Industry Opera company in Los Angeles, is debuting with LA Camerata in the role of Melissa in Caccini's La Liberazione di Ruggiero, the first opera ever performed by a female composer, and has sung as a soloist with Musica Angelica. She has performed leading roles on stage and on screen, and most recently made her Los Angeles Equity Playhouse debut with Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum. She is the former Paul S. And Jean R. Amos Distinguished Chair for Choral Activities at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, and before that, the first female conductor of the University of Maryland Men's Chorus. She has prepared choruses for the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center (DC) and has been invited to conduct at Carnegie Hall (NYC). Her stage work has earned her recognition as Best Actress in a Musical by Boston Broadway Awards (Anita, West Side Story), and she has led a number of independent films as female protagonist. She hails originally from Boston and Cape Cod, MA.
Ianthe believes passionately in the power of finding our own authentic and fully embodied voice, and the life-affirming, life-altering effects this discovery can have on our relationships with ourselves, with one another, and with our communities at the most local and global levels.