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Photo: Vicki Jamison, left, and Carol Niblock

Oct. 8, 2015 — Carol Niblock and Vicki Jamison, adjunct instructors in music at Allegheny College, will present a recital of soprano duets and solos on Sunday, October 18 at 3:15 p.m. in Ford Chapel on the Allegheny College campus. They will be accompanied on the piano by Ward Jamison, professor of music emeritus.

Niblock, who joined the faculty in 2012, teaches voice and is the vocal coordinator for the college’s Department of Music. Jamison has taught voice at Allegheny since 1981 and served as vocal coordinator prior to 2012. In addition to giving voice lessons, they jointly lead the Allegheny Chamber Singers.

The program will include seven duets and four arias drawn from both sacred and secular works. The sacred duets include “Gloria et divitiae” from Vivaldi’s “Beatus vir,” “Domine Deus” from the Mozart C Minor Mass and “Victoria! Christo resurgenti” by Francois Couperin.

The second half of the recital will be drawn from opera and will feature duets from Purcell’s “King Arthur” and Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena,” as well as the sisters’ duet from “Arabella” by Richard Strauss and the letter duet from Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro.”

In addition each artist will perform two solos. Niblock will sing “Ave Maria” by Alain and “Hello” from Menotti’s “The Telephone.” Jamison will sing “Et incarnatus est” from the C Minor Mass of Mozart and Doretta’s song from “La Rondine” by Puccini.

Prior to teaching at Allegheny, Niblock taught at Colgate University, where she sang the soprano solos in M. Haydn’s “Vesparae pro festo Sanctissimae Innocentium” with the Colgate University Women’s Ensemble. She also performed Whitacre’s “Five Hebrew Love Songs” with the Mercury Bay Area Choir in Whitianga, New Zealand. She has worked as a master class clinician and guest teacher of voice with singers in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania as well as New Zealand. She graduated in 2002 from Allegheny College, where she studied voice with Vicki Jamison.

Jamison has performed regularly as a recitalist and soloist, singing the soprano solo in the Vaughan Williams “Dona nobis pacem” with the Erie Philharmonic and before that performing with the Waterbury Symphony and singing opera roles with the Florentine and Milwaukee opera companies in Wisconsin. At Allegheny she has performed regularly as a recitalist and soloist including appearances in the Allegheny Summer Music Festival and the Playshop Theatre.