Instruments/Subjects: Voice - beginner through professional, Violin - beginner
Styles: All styles
Ages: Voice - starting at 15 years old (younger only by special arrangement), Violin - 10 and up
Education: DMA Vocal Performance (Florida State University), MM Vocal Performance (Bowling Green State University), BM Vocal Performance (Oberlin Conservatory)
Rates: $80/hour
Availability: Thursday, contact for other options
Tel: (575) 749-0340
Email: jwozornellas@gmail.com

Bio

Dr. Jeanie Wozencraft-Ornellas,  North Carolina Opera Chorus Master and recently Retired Head of the Music Department and Associate Professor of Voice at Meredith College,made her professional debut with the Cleveland Opera in the role of Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. Twice a regional finalist and award winner in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, lyric-soprano Wozencraft-Ornellas has performed recitals, opera and oratorio throughout the United States and in 16 countries from New Zealand to Great Britain, China to Chile. Reviews have described her voice as “extraordinary” and “sublime” (Jakarta Post). La Estrella of Iquique, Chile labeled Dr. Wozencraft-Ornellas “a soprano with extensive range, with notes lyrical, dramatic and an exceptional agility.” After a performance in Santiago, Chile “the audience in the theatre gave ‘la Wozencraft’ a standing ovation, wanting more.” The El Paso Times applauded her “outstanding versatility” and “unimpeachable artistic instincts.” 

Dr. WO’s students have won awards in such competitions as the Dallas Opera Competition, the McCammon Voice Competition, AIMS Meistersinger Competition, Opera Ithaca Edward M. Murray International Voice Competition, American International Czech and Slovak Competition and the Bellini International Voice Competition. Her former students are performing on Broadway and in opera companies in the US, Germany, and South America, as well as teaching in the public schools or universities and colleges across the US and in China. 

In addition to serving on the board of the North Carolina Opera, Dr. WO is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Eastern New Mexico University, where she taught voice and directed the opera and music theatre productions for 32 years. She holds degrees in Vocal Performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (B.M.), Bowling Green State University in Ohio (M.M.), and Florida State University (D.M.).  She is a member of the New Mexico Music Educators’ Hall of Fame, and received the Rollie T. Heltman distinguished Service Award from the same organization.