MARJORIE MELNICK

melnick@music.umass.edu
283 Fine Arts Center
(413) 545-6047

VOICE; VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano, earned the Master of Music in Cello from the Juilliard School. While in New York City, she studied voice privately with Nicholas DiVirgilio. During her many summers at the Aspen Music Festival, she studied and performed as a cellist while also studying voice with Olga Rhyss and the revered mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani. In 1985, as a member of the Opernstudio Zürich, Ms. Melnick made her debut at the Zürich Opera under Nello Santi and that same year won a contract at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrucken, Germany. She spent the next twelve years singing opera, oratorio and recitals in Europe. Among the leading roles she sang were Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Cinderella in Cenerentola, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, and Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. Ms. Melnick lives in Amherst where she is a member of the voice faculty of the University of Massachusetts.

Appointed 2001