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Karen
Adair is
a soprano who loves to eat chocolate, swim, read, walk on vacant wet
beaches, and practice yoga! Her voice is described as “crystal
clear and so strong that when she sang everything else on stage
melted away,“ (Ocala
Star Banner),
and “powerful and polished” (Daytona
Beach News Journal).
The
Florida Times-Union Fine
Arts writer said “her voice made hearts shudder”. “Warm and
opulent”, “Hers is a most expressive voice.”(The
Times Herald-Record,
NY).
In
2008, she made her solo debuts with Jacksonville Lyric Opera (FL) and
the Messiah Choral Society of Orlando FL at the Bob Carr Performing
Arts Center in Handel’s The
Messiah,
performed
Haydn’s Lord
Nelson Mass
as soloist returning to the Jacksonville Masterworks Chorale (FL) and
reprised Yum-Yum in The
Mikado for
the Gilbert & Sullivan Singers in Orlando. In 2009 she returned
in concert to First Coast Opera and to the St Augustine Community
Chorus and Orchestra for Brahms' A
German Requiem
and made her solo debut with the Valdosta Symphony for Beethoven's
Choral
Fantasy.
2010 included an exclusive concert for the clients of GMB Wealth
Management and another triumphant return to the historic Ancient City
Baptist Church in St Augustine, FL, for Carmina
Burana with
the St Augustine Community Chorus and Orchestra. Previously,
in 2004, she recorded sacred arias with conductor Kirk Trevor and the Slovak
Radio Symphony in Bratislava, Slovakia for her currently available
self-titled solo CD. Her
voice is heard on three CDs, “The Dramatic”, “Karen Adair:
Sacred Arias”, and her premier Christmas CD, “When God Is a
Child”.
Since
the millenium, she appeared with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra
(FL), the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra (Sofia, Bulgaria), Ensamble
Rosario (Argentina), Ormond Beach Symphony Orchestra, Valdosta
Symphony, First Coast Opera, and Florida's First Coast Arts Festival.
She emerged professionally with the Central Florida Symphony, members
of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, the Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
(NYC), and the Orlando Opera Company, for whom she was a Resident
Artist. She has performed the soprano solos to Handel’s The
Messiah,
Mozart’s
Requiem,
Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9, and Choral Fantasy,
Mendelssohn’s Elijah,
Brahms’ Ein
Deutsches Requiem,
J.S. Bach’s Magnificat
in D, Vivaldi’s Gloria,
Haydn’s The
Creation,
and Lord
Nelson Mass,
and Carl Orff's Carmina
Burana,
the roles of Cio-cio san in Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly,
Mother in Menotti’s Amahl
& the Night Visitors,
Yum-Yum
in Gilbert & Sullivan's The
Mikado,
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Christine from The
Phantom of the Opera
(in concert), Lady Thiang in The
King & I,
and Nimue in Camelot.
Carving
out her niche as a proponent of new music, she has premiered works by
Bob Moore (GIA Music Publications and CDs), Valerie Saalbach (The
Actor's Studio, NYC) and A. Paul Johnson (The Apollo Project), among
others. She holds a BA in Music with Honors and MM, both from UF,
and is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
She is an active certified 200hr RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) with
the international Yoga Alliance. Karen and husband, Tom, are the
proud parents of a son, and a set of boy-girl twins!
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