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Talent: Opera Vocal: "So anch'io la virtu magica"
Social Impact: Hidden Gems: Valuing our Elders Director: Jodi Swaja recruiting@missminnesota.org Greater Minnesota is the final competition for the season and awards Granite City, Great Lakes, Heartland & River Valley Festival titles. |
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Evy is an aspiring opera singer who currently works for Minnesota Opera and is an instructor of voice at South Dakota State University. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from South Dakota State University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and a Master of Music degree from the University of South Carolina.
Through the joy of sharing music, Evy found a passion for serving older individuals and those living in care facilities. What started as singing in weekly concerts at a local nursing home blossomed into her Social Impact Initiative, “Hidden Gems: Valuing our Elders.” Through this initiative, Evy has volunteered her time and talents at care facilities in her community. While attending school in Columbia, SC, Evy was a member of a local assisted living’s weekly singing group called “The Melody Makers.” She has initiated a pen-pal project for middle-school students to write letters to residents of a local nursing home, as well as for nursing home residents to write get-well cards to children being treated in Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. Evy is especially passionate about bringing the fine arts to rural and under-served areas. She is excited to be starting a new program, “Life Lessons,” through which individuals may receive free music, dance, and art lessons in exchange for serving the elderly in their communities. Since her stage debut at the age of three, Evy has experienced significant growth and success as a performer. She performed numerous roles throughout high school, most notably Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Janet Van de Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone. In college, Evy minored in theater and performed supporting and ensemble roles in four musicals, and also performed the role of Cathy in a community production of The Last Five Years. In her graduate opera studies, she performed the roles of Serpetta in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and La Fee (Fairy Godmother) in Viardot’s Cendrillon. In her free time, Evy enjoys distance running, and has completed two half-marathons. She also looks forward to trips back to her parents’ farm so she can spend time driving tractors out in the hay field, checking the cattle, feeding baby calves, and enjoying the beauty of country life. |
