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Dee Donasco, coloratura soprano

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Dee Donasco is a first year graduate student studying voice with Dale Dietert at Southern Methodist University. She was born and raised in the Philippines. At age 10 she won the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) of the Philippines. She moved to the U.S. at the age of 13. She was a member of the Corpus Christi Cathedral Pontifical Chorale for ten years, and has served as the cantor for five years. Dee has appeared numerous times with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra as the featured soloist in the annual Christmas Holiday Concerts. She received her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, earning a double bachelor's degree in Biology and Music Performance (Cum Laude). She makes her debut at the San Antonio Opera this summer. In February, she made her Meadows Opera Theatre debut as Laurie in Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land. She has also performed in H.M.S. Pinafore (Josephine) and Hansel and Gretel (Gretel) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi where she studied with Flicka Rahn. Ms. Donasco’s awards and honors include second prize in the 2009 Mid-Texas Symphony Young Artist Competition in Voice, winner of the 2009 Annual Concerto Competition of the Meadows School of the Arts (SMU), first prize from the 2007 San Antonio Opera Vocal Competition, second prize from the 2007 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, and first prize in the 2006 Tuesday Musical Club Vocal Competition (San Antonio). She is currently a member of the Dallas Opera/SMU Emerging Artists Program.
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Member Since: 30/09/2006
Influences: Dee Donasco “Follows Her Dreams” of Opera May 3, 2009 By Kaitlyn Dunne [email protected] sixth and final Brown Bag opera series, “Free for All” featured theatrical songs from the original piece Opera in a Box: Follow Your Dreams, written and directed by Hank Hammett.Four members of SMU Emerging Artists Program, as well as The Dallas Opera, wowed an audience of nearly 500 friends, family and guests, with their performance. The SMU opera stars, Soowon Seo, Juan de Leon, Selby Hlangu, and Dee Donasco, shared their voices and musical talent with audience members lobby of the Meadows School of the Arts.In a comical performance as a life-size mechanical doll, the only female performer onstage, Donasco, got the audience laughing and feeling amazed through her high-pitched singing solos.Donasco was born and raised in the Philippines. Watching her sing onstage dressed as a life-size mechanical doll, you never would have guessed she came to college with hopes of being a medical doctor.“Life at school and life at home were very different,” she said.One of Donasco’s fondest childhood memories was singing in church each week with her grandmother. It was there, in a Philippines church, that Donasco found her passion and love for music.When Donasco was 13-years-old, she and her siblings moved to the United States to live with their mother. At 18, after enrolling in college as a biology major, with hopes of continuing her education in med school, Donasco wondered what life would be like as a professional opera singer.“As you can see, I’m not a biologist,” Donasco joked.Next year Donasco will begin her second year in SMU’s master studies program. As she continues to follow her childhood dream towards becoming an opera star, it seems the Brown Bag show theme, Opera in a Box: Follow Your Dreams, was particularly appropriate.
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