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The American soprano, Anne Slovin, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice and Opera from Northwestern University (2005-2009); and her Master of Music degree in Voice and Opera from Indiana University Bloomington (2016-2018). She is currently a third-year doctoral student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, where she has studied with Julia Bentley and Patricia Havranek. Recently, she has distinguished herself on the competition circuit. She is a previous recipient of a Farwell Trust Award from Chicago's Musicians Club of Women and an international study grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians, which allowed her to study voice at the Schola Cantorum in Paris for the 2011-2012 academic year. She won 1st Prize at the FAVA Grand Concours de Chant, the Prix Leoš Jánácek at the Czech and Slovak International Vocal Competition, and 2nd Prize in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition. She has also been named Best Female Performer and Best Female Voice at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK, for her performances with the Savoynet Performing Group.
An avid performer of new and recent opera, Anne Slovin created the role of Mica Segal in Lyric Opera of Chicago's premiere of The Property, a klezmer opera with a score by Wlad Marhulets and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann. She has also performed roles in Sumeida's Song by Mohammed Fairouz and The Seduction of a Lady by Richard Wargo, as well as covering roles in The Grapes of Wrath by Ricky Ian Gordon and Hello Out There by Jack Beeson. At IU, Anne premiered the role of Brigitte in New Voices Opera's production of Marilyn's Room by Kyle Peter Rotolo. Anne also appeared Clara in the collegiate premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's It's a Wonderful Life with IU Opera Theater, a performance that was called "a delight" by Indiana Public Media. In fall 2018, she joined the Indianapolis Opera Resident Artist program, covering Musetta in La Bohème and premiering the role of Juliet in Star-Cross'd Lovers, a chamber opera by IU professor Don Freund.
Anne Slovin is equally at home in standard operatic repertoire, having made her American mainstage debut in 2014 as an Artist-in-Residence at Pensacola Opera. At Pensacola, she sang the roles of Frasquita in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Clorinda in La Cenerentola and Fiordiligi in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte as part of the Artist-in-Residence showcase. Anne's roles in the Chicagoland area include Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, Marzelline in L.v. Beethoven's Fidelio, Aline in The Sorcerer and Gianetta in The Gondoliers. In Bloomington, she has performed the roles of Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Bloomington Chamber Opera, and Micaëla in La Tragédie de Carmen with Arden Opera.
In demand as a choral and concert artist, Anne Slovin has sung frequently with Music of the Baroque, Chicago, the Chicago Bach Project and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. She made her Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra debut in 2015 as the soprano soloist in Ottorino Respighi's Laud to the Nativity and Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, and at IU she has been a featured soloist in Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C and Charles Ives' The Celestial Country. Anne is also a dynamic recitalist, having programmed works by composers ranging from Barbara Strozzi and Johannes Brahms to André Previn and Judith Cloud. In 2016, she premiered Myron Silberstein's song cycle This Blue Dark, which she also assisted in developing with English poet Chloe Stopa-Hunt. In November 2021, she performed with the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington. She is also looking forward to teaching a course on the American musical through IU's Musical in General Studies department in spring 2022.
As an associate instructor, Slovin Anne has taught undergraduate vocal pedagogy for three semesters, and also maintains a private voice studio both online and locally. She has been Voice Teacher at Belvoir Terrace Contract in Lenox, Massachusetts (June 2018-August 2019); Adjunct Faculty Instructor at Ivy Tech Community College (since January 2020); Voice and Piano Teacher at Stafford Music Academy Contract in Bloomington, Indiana (since October 2019); Associate Instructor at Indiana University Bloomington (since August 2020). She currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana. |
