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Lyric coloratura soprano Rose Sawvel discovered a passion for opera while studying for a Bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Northern Colorado. She began taking lessons with the University voice faculty and completed her B.A. from the Psychology department with a minor in music in 2005. Choosing to pursue opera in her graduate studies, she completed her Master of Music degree in vocal performance at UNC in December, 2007, under the guidance of Dr. Melissa Malde. She is a member of the Psi Chi Honors Society and received the Graduate Dean's Citation for Excellence upon her graduation from UNC.
In the summer of 2008, Rose was one of 12 artists to comprise the inaugural year of the Emerald City Opera Company's Artist Institute in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Summer 2007 took Rose to Germany, France, and Spain to perform with UNC in conglomeration with several European opera companies and orchestras. Rose attended the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy in the summer of 2006, The Bel Canto Institute in 2006, and Bel Canto Northwest in summer 2005. Over the past four years, Rose has performed in recitals, workshops, and masterclasses throughout Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the United States with music and drama specialists Jane Bakken Klaviter, David Chew, Dean Williamson, Garrie Davislim, Whit Kellogg, Vincenzo Taramelli, Roger Malouf, Keith Miller, David Malis, Caleb Harris, Brian Clay Luedloff, Fredrick Martell, Stephen Goldstein, and Ashley Putnam.
Past roles include La Fée in Massenet's Cendrillon, Despina in Mozart's Women are Like That, Amy March in Mark Adamo's Little Women, Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Mařenka in Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Anne Page in Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Eustazio in Handel's Rinaldo, and Contessa Almaviva in Mozart's La nozze di Figaro. Opera Scenes roles include Magda in Puccini's La Rondine and Alice in Verdi's Falstaff. Recent recital and collaborative performances include the New York Opera Project recital in Manhattan, N.Y., the Bel Canto Performance Award recitals in Lake George and High Falls, N.Y., and Florence, Italy, and the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Recital for scholarship recipients. In October, 2007, she premiered an arrangement of Una voce poco fa for soprano and Wind Ensemble by Dr. Kenneth Singleton with whom she toured through central Colorado as a guest soloist with the UNC Wind Ensemble. She returned as a guest soloist with the UNC Wind Ensemble again in November, 2008. In addition, Rose has performed excerpts of Berio's Sinfonia with the Colorado Contemporary Music Consort in UNC's Music of Our Time concert series under the baton of Luis Vicaría and Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with cello ensemble under the direction of David Chew. She will join the Acerata Ensemble to perform Kaija Saariaho's Lonh for soprano and electronics in May, 2009.
Rose received the 2006 Bel Canto Institute Performance Award, the 2006 New York Opera Project Award, a Denver Lyric Opera scholarship, the Joe Tennesen PVA scholarship, and the President's Leadership scholarship. She was a District Finalist in the 2009 and 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the 2007 Regional NATS Singer of the Year and first in the graduate women division, won the 2006 Rocky Mountain Competition, and finished first in the 2005 Colorado/Wyoming/Utah district NATSAA. Rose also loves to show horses and is co-author of several scientific botanical publications including an on-line Lucid interactive key of Gossia/Myrtaceae.