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About MVAE
The Memphis Vocal Arts Ensemble, founded by director Thomas Machen in 1991, is composed of many of the finest, best-known Memphis area soloists, including former Metropolitan Opera District Audition winners, outstanding voice teachers, choir directors and a diverse cross-section of Mid-South residents. The ensemble has performed a wide variety of music in Memphis and the Mid-South, including opera, spirtual, Broadway, jazz, and rock—music of many different cultures and music from all historical periods. The ensemble has performed with many fine musicians from the Memphis area and from around the world: Kallen Esperian, Joyce Cobb, Angelo Rapan, Karen Busler, the O’lando Draper Choir, the Nubian Theatre Drummers, the Mississippi Mass Choir, the Memphis Symphony, the Hope Ensemble and the Ars Nova Orchestra, among others. MVAE’s first recording, a collection of American folk songs in collaboration with world-renowned soprano Kallen Esperian, received immediate acclaim and was featured on the National Radio program “The First Art” for Independence Day 1995. “American Treasure” became one of the top twenty most requested crossover folk song recordings in a survey of public radio stations in 1995. Our second recording “There Will Always be an England” features a wide variety of music by British composers. Our third recording, entitled simply "15", is a collection of highlights from our fifteenth season, 2005-2006. |
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Opera Memphis
Africa In April
Ballet Memphis
Blues Foundation
Cultural Development Foundation Memphis Symphony Orchestra Playhouse on the Square Theatre Memphis National Ornamental Metal Museum Brooks Museum |
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