For Immediate Release Contact: Victoria Bigelow

313.927.1372

vbigelow@marygrove.edu

Marygrove College to Hold Vocal Master Class with Operatic

Tenor Rodrick Dixon

Detroit, Michigan, November 21, 2004—The Division of Fine Arts and the Department of Music at Marygrove College are proud to welcome Rodrick Dixon in a vocal master class on Friday, December 17, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Denk Chapman Hall. Dixon will explore various aspects of music with participants including vocal techniques, musicianship, interpretation, and stage comportment. The workshop is free and open to the public.

Dixon has toured, recorded and performed as part of the well-known ensemble the Three Mo’ Tenors, which also features Victor Trent Cook and Thomas Young. He has also appeared on stage and in concert in a variety of dramatic roles that encompass the repertoires of opera, oratorio, concert/recital, musical theater, and television.

Dixon’s television credits include the PBS special Three Mo’ Tenors, My Favorite Love Songs; the Mark Twain Awards honoring Whoopi Goldberg at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., The Tony Awards, and NBC’s Today Show.

Dixon’s principle operatic debuts include the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Portland Opera, the Columbus Opera, and the Virginia Opera. He has performed as a concert soloist in Europe at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris, France, and the Bettona Symphony in Italy. United States concert debuts include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia, the Denver Symphony and the Concordia Orchestra at Lincoln Center, the Wheeling Symphony, and the Elgin Symphony.

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Dixon was a 1991 winner of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation and the Mary Dawson art guild “Tenor of the Year” award. He has also been the recipient of the Jan Peerce Scholarship, Links Foundation Scholarship, and a multi-year grant from the Osceola Foundation.

Dixon earned a bachelor’s degree and master of arts degree from the Mannes College of Music in New York. He has also studied at l'Academia Musicale Ottorino Respighi, Italy and l'Ecole d'Art Americain-Palais de Fontainebleau.

Marygrove College is a liberal arts college located on 53 wooded acres in one of Detroit’s oldest residential neighborhoods. More than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, social work, the liberal and fine arts. For more information, contact Victoria Bigelow at 313.927.1372. ###