Wanda Brister, Mezzo Soprano
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Performances of Distinction:
2006
bulletSoloist, Carnegie Hall, Mistress Bentson (Lakmé) with Opera Orchestra of New York, Eve Queler, Cond.
2006
bulletSoloist, Carnegie Hall, Mozart Coronation Mass, Mid America, Mark Lawlor, Cond.
1997
bulletSoloist, Mozart Requiem, Carnegie Hall, John Rutter, Cond.
1995
bulletSoloist, Messiah, Avery Fisher Hall
1994
bulletQuartet Concert, York Hall Toronto; NY Vocal Arts Ensemble
1992
bulletQuartet Concert, Tschaikovsky Hall, Moscow; NY Vocal Arts Ensemble
1990
bulletRecital, Carnegie Hall
bullet Soloist, US Capitol Rotunda; Joint Session of Congress
bullet Recital, Minneapolis; Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention
bullet Soloist, Opera Orchestra of New York, Carnegie Hall
1989
bulletSoloist, Haydn St. Nicholas Mass, Carnegie Hall
bullet Soloist, Opera Orchestra of New York, Carnegie Hall
1988
bulletQuartet Concert, Kennedy Center; NY Vocal Arts Ensemble
bullet Quartet Concert, National Castle; Warsaw, Poland, NY Vocal Arts Ensemble
bullet Quartet Concert, Alice Tully Hall; NY Vocal Arts Ensemble
1987
bulletQuartet Concert, Alice Tully Hall; NY Vocal Arts Ensemble
bullet Quartet Concert, Schwetzigen Festival; NY Vocal Arts Ensemble
bullet Quartet Concert, Varna Summer Festival; NY Vocal Arts Ensemble

Additional Performances:
2004
bulletOctober: Penderecki Credo, Tallahassee, FL, Krzysztof 
Penderecki, Conducting.
bulletSeptember: Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Lafayette,Louisiana, Heyman Center 8 p.m. Mariusz Smolij, Cond.
bulletJune/July: Trip to Great Britain to meet Roger Lord, visit Royal College of Music, etc.
bulletMarch: Las Vegas, Lecture Recital on “The Songs of Madeleine Dring.” Wen Shu-Wen, Pianist 
2003
bulletNovember: UNLV - In recital with Shu-Wen Wen. Art songs of Wolf (Mörike and Spanisches Liederbuch selections), songs of Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jean Cras, and Ned Rorem’s Poems of Love and the Rain.
bulletOctober: Soloist for David Honegger’s King David. Conducted by André Thomas, Featuring the Tallahassee Community Chorus.
bulletOctober: Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. World premiere of John Harbison’s December 1, a work created to commemorate the 10th anniversary as that symphony’s conductor for David Hoose.
bulletOctober: Opperman Hall, Tallahassee. An evening of Art Songs by Hugo Wolf. With FSU Faculty members Roy Delp, Stanford Olsen, Larry Gerber and Miss Brister. Excerpts from Mörike Lieder and the Spanisches Liederbuch in commemoration of Hugo Wolf’s death in 1903. Accompanied by Douglas Fisher and Valerie Trujillo.
bulletAugust: WFSQ Benefit from Opperman Hall, Tallahassee. Miss Brister sang three songs of Madeleine Dring. This concert was telecast all year through WFSU.
bulletJune: Rossini Stabat Mater with University Community Chorus. Tucson, AZ Josef Knott, Conductor.
bulletApril: Handel: Israel in Egypt with University Community Choir, Symphonic Choir. Tucson, AZ Josef Knott, Conductor.
bulletSierra Winds and Friends, Las Vegas, NV. Miss Brister was featured in 3 Bach arias with Oboe, featuring Dr. Stephen Caplan. One of the arias also featured Byron Tauchi, Violinist.
bulletDoctoral Chamber Music Recital: Featuring Bach Arias (with Oboe, Violin, and Continuo), Shostakovich (with Piano Trio), Ibert, Saint-Saëns, Caplet (with Flute). Faculty members featured were Nancy Andrew (University of Arizona), and Stephen Caplan, Byron Tauchi and Andrew Smith (University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
bulletKatherine Kitzman Memorial Concert, Tucson, AZ. Songs of Saint-Saëns and Caplet with Nancy Andrew, Flute.
bulletFebruary:Faculty Artists Series, University of Arizona. Guest soloist with Lorenzo Trio.
bulletFaculty Artist Series, University of Arizona. Singing original songs of Suzanne Knosp. Suzanne Knosp, Piano.
bulletArizona Balalaika Orchestra. Winter Festival of Russian Music and Dance, Pima Community College, Grayson Hirst, Conductor.
2002
bulletDecember: Tucson Symphony Orchestra: Mozart’s realization of Handel’s Messiah.
bulletTucson Masterworks Chorale: Vivaldi’s Gloria, David Gardner, Conductor
bulletNovember: Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah, Roger Bayes, Conductor.
bulletArizona Bach Aria Consort, Tucson, AZ
bulletSeptember 11 Commemoration: Rolling Requiem. Mozart Requiem, Centennial Hall, Tucson.
bulletTour with Arizona Singers to Budapest,  featuring Copland's In the Beginning 
bulletRecital with Margaret Perry, piano. The program included Handel, Strauss, Debussy and Dring.  
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Mendelssohn's Elijah, Crowder Hall, University of Arizona
University of Arizona Summer Chorus and Chamber Orchestra, Josef Knott, Conductor.
bulletHandel's Messiah, Sierra Vista, AZ, Sierra Vista Symphony
2001
bulletSoloist, AZ Bach Aria Consort
bullet Faculty Recital, University of Arizona
bullet Recital, Original music of Eric Ewazen, University of Arizona, Tucson
bullet Soloist, Mozart: Grand Mass in c minor with Chorale Acadienne, Lafayette, Louisiana
bulletSoloist, Mahler Ruckertlieder, University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Cockrell, Conductor
bulletSoloist, R. Murray Schafer: Minnelieder -- Arizona Wind Quintet, Tucson, AZ
bulletSoloist, Messiah, First Congregational Church, Greenwich, CT
bulletSoloist, Evening of French Mélodies. With Mary Dibbern, featuring Fauré's Chanson d'Eve, Tucson, AZ
2000
bullet Soloist, Copeland - In the Beginning, Larry Parsons Chorale
bullet Soloist, University of Arizona Faculty Showcase
bullet Recital, Rye Presbyterian Church, Rye, New York
bullet SoloistCopland - In the Beginning, Arizona Choir, Tucson
bullet Soloist, Berlin 2000: Music of Kurt Weill, Tucson
bullet Soloist, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Tucson, AZ
bullet Soloist, Reveille, Tucson Gay Men's Chorus Holiday Concert
 


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