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Eve Dillingham |
Soprano |
Eve Dillingham is an associate professor for the School of Management at the University of Alaska Southeast chairing the department of computer Information and Office Systems and teaching courses in computer applications and business communications. Her love for the musical and performing arts has spanned her lifetime. Most recently she made her debut with Opera To Go in the production of Dido and Æneas and Juneau Lyric Opera's Beauty and the Beast. She has studied voice with the university's Dr. John D'Armand and Tiffany Hanson and with Dr. Byron McGilvray. She has been a member of the Juneau Pride Chorus since 2002 and regularly sings in the Juneau Symphony Chorus, the Juneau Bach Society and the Juneau Jazz and Classics Singin' in the Rain cabaret. in 1991 she joined Juneau's Storybox and has performed storytelling theatre over the years both solo and with her brother, Brett Dillingham. Some of her roles: Professor Nottaman in Roaring Fossils of Planet Ocean (a story inspired by a book by Ray Troll), the Grimm brothers' Clever Gretel, the anti-heroine in the radio play Dream of the Green Chamber. Over a span of ten years through grade school and high school she took piano lessons through the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and danced, sang and acted in school musicals and dramas. She attributes her musical inspiration to her family: her grandfather, a renowned mathematician from a musical family, introduced Eve to classical piano duets; her aunt who sang with Robert Shaw and at Radio City Music Hall an whose voice could melt butter; her cousin Andy Wilder who is currently the musical conductor for the Broadway production Jersey Boys and for whom without him the show would not go on; and especially her trumpeter brother who sparked her love for jazz an inspired her in her recent vocal trumpet part in the 2008 Juneau Folk Festival performance of Miss Celie's Blues. |
11/12 Rusalka |