Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 904
Fayetteville, NC 28302Telephone:
(910) 672-1457
More Love to Thee - A Medley of Inspiration and Faith
Arranged by Joseph Joubert
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Brenda Wimberly
P.O. Box 904
Fayetteville, NC 28302
Rev. 1/2005
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Brenda Wimberly
Soprano
"... Ms Wimberly
brings a special kind of talent, sensitivity and timber of voice that
simply can't be imparted. She lets you in for a special experience
of one spirit to another as she makes music."
"... Ms Wimberly brings a special kind of talent, sensitivity and timber of voice that simply can't be imparted. She lets you in for a special experience of one spirit to another as she makes music."
Dr., Willis Patterson,
University of Michigan
School of Music
Remarks taken from introduction of recital on July 1, 2001 American Heritage Music Festival, Mackinac Island Michigan
About the Artist:
BRENDA WIMBERLY Brenda Wimberly has received praise for
her precision and expressiveness in opera, oratorios, and song recitals. Her
opera roles include staged or concert performances with the West Coast
Lyric Opera, Marin Opera, Los Angeles Concert Orchestra, Shreveport Opera,
and Houston Ebony Opera Guild. She has performed recitals in Louisiana,
Ohio, Arkansas, California, Texas, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina,
Nevada, Nassau Bahamas, and has appeared as guest soloists with the Instituto
Veracruzano de Cultura with performances in Boca Del Rio, Cordoba,
Orizaba, San Adres Tuxtla, Xalapa, and Veracruz, Mexico. She has
performed as guest soloist with the Austin Civic Chorus, New Dimensions
Chorale, Houston Masterworks and the Brazeal Dennard Chorale.
Additionally, Ms. Wimberly has appeared as guest soloist with the
Glendale, San Diego, Southeast Los Angeles, Shreveport, Scott Joplin,
Houston, San Francisco, Nevada, and Detroit symphony orchestras.
A frequent competition winner, she has garnered many vocal awards:
winner, National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition—Texoma
region; Singer of the Year, Shreveport Opera; winner, Opera Guild of
Southern California Competition; national finalist, Loren Zachary
National Competition of Los Angeles; national finalist, Metropolitan
Opera Competition of New York; and national finalist, University of
Michigan Concerto Competition. She was a two-year consecutive member
and Grand Finalist Winner of the prestigious Merola Young Artist
Program at San Francisco Opera, where she was honored as the first
recipient of the Chisholm Foundation award established in honor of
Leontyne Price. She had the additional honor of appearing with Miss
Price on the CBS program Sunday Morning. A resolution was presented by
the Texas House of Representatives that declared her voice a “state
treasure.”
A Louisiana native, she was educated in the Caddo Parish School system and commenced formal training under the tutelage of Bobby Wiggins at Southern University—Shreveport campus. She received the Bachelor of Music degree from Prairie View A&M University and pursued further studies at the University of Texas—Austin, University of California—Los Angeles, and the American Institute of Musical Studies—Graz, Austria. Her professional development includes auditions and study in Munich, Vienna, and Salzburg (Austria). She completed the Master of Music degree in vocal performance from the University of Michigan and currently serves on the faculty of Fayetteville State University.
Ms. Wimberly has released a CD Single entitled
MORE LOVE TO THEE: A
MEDLOY OF INSPIRATION AND FAITH
Arranged by Joseph Joubert.