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Barbara Ann Peters, soprano, a Massachusetts native, received her B.M. in Applied Voice cum laude from The Boston Conservatory of Music, studies with David Blair McClosky.   She holds a License de Concert Chant from L'école Normale de Musique, Paris, studies with Pierre Bernac.   Post-graduate studies include five years of private study and performance in Rome, Italy and Munich, Germany.   Peters was a professional free-lance musician in New York City for over twenty years.   She received her M.M. in Vocal Performance summa cum laude from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was nominated for the 1999 and 2000 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.   A member of the prestigious Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society, Peters has served as Adjunct faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1999, where she teaches voice, French, Italian, and English Diction to undergraduate voice majors.   Peters is Patroness of Sigma Alpha Iota's Tau chapter at UNC, and in 2004, she was nominated for the Outstanding Faculty Award at UNC-Chapel Hill for contributions made to students on and off campus.   In demand as a clinician, she has given Master Classes at The Boston Conservatory, Meredith College, North Carolina School for the Arts, Texas Christian University, and has trained and coached church choirs across the state of North Carolina in her “Singing for a Lifetime” workshop.

Peters made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mahler's Eighth Symphony with Canterbury Choral Society and made her Merkin Hall debut with I Cantori di New York in John Harbison's Five Songs of Experience.   The soprano has appeared with the Dallas Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, New York's Schubertiade, Springfield (MA) Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra, and the Manhattan String Quartet at Music Mountain.   Operatic/operetta performances include performances with Boris Goldovsky Opera, Manhattan Opera, Henry Street Opera, The York Theatre, and the Berkshire Choral Festival.   Her active recital career has taken her to European venues such as Accademia Chigiana, Siena, American Academy, Rome, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, Salle Cortot, Paris, and Deutsches Museum, Munich, among many others.   Peters has broadcasted recital programs for WQXR-New York and WGBH-Boston, has telecasted recital performances for the Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), and appears on numerous concert series on the eastern seaboard in programs embracing 400 years of song.

A long-standing faculty member of the Berkshire Choral Festival in Sheffield, MA, Peters has taught at Mannes College of Music, Hartt School of Music, and has maintained a private studio for over thirty years, presently in Greensboro, North Carolina.   Currently Vice-President of NC-NATS, she is an active member of NATS and the McClosky Institute of Voice.


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