Caroline Helton

Assistant Professor of Voice
chelton@umich.edu
734-615-3728

Caroline Helton, soprano, joined the voice faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance in the fall of 2000, after having completed her doctoral work at that institution in 1998. Dr. Helton has recently appeared with the Michigan Chamber Players as well as with the Brave New Works Ensemble, with whom she performed Joseph Schwantner's Wild Angels of the Open Hills. Over the last year Dr. Helton has sung a series of recitals in Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia and Michigan, after which she was described by the Durham Herald Sun as performing with "masterful" artistry and a "clear, bell-like soprano." She has also had the pleasure of premiering works by Vítezslava Kaprálová (Sbohem a sátecék, Leden) with fellow U of M faculty Prof. Timothy Cheek, André Myers (Moon Songs), Tom Schnauber (Liebeslieder für Vogel) and Gabriel Gould (Songs from A Child's Garden) in Ann Arbor, Michigan and South Bend, Indiana. In December 2005 she will be premiering a work by Matthew Tommasini with the University of Michigan Symphony Band, directed by Michael Haithcock. She appears yearly on concerts with the Ann Arbor Festival of Song, collaborating with pianist Kevin Bylsma, and has also performed with the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, founded by pianist Jeffrey Sykes and flutist Stephanie Jutt. During her studies at the University of Michigan with Freda Herseth and Martin Katz, she sang the role of Adina in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and the title role in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol with the University of Michigan Opera Theater, as well as the title role in Handel's Semele with Michigan Opera Works (directed by George Shirley). Professor Helton has sung opera, oratorio, chamber music and recitals in Germany and Italy as well as the U.S., and has also been active as a teacher, clinician and adjudicator since she came to Michigan from North Carolina in 1995.

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