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Anthony Dean Griffey to Join Music Faculty as Artist-in-Residence We are delighted to welcome internationally renowned tenor Anthony Dean Griffey to our faculty this year as artist-in-residence. His affiliation with UNC-Chapel Hill adds to the strong reputation in the Arts which Carolina is building. During the year, Mr. Griffey will be coaching and teaching master classes to our voice students and to our Kenan Scholars’ cohort, working with chamber music students and UNC Opera students, and speaking in select academic classes.
Announcing the 2009-2010 Kenan Music Scholars The Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is delighted to announce the appointment of the following four Kenan Music Scholars set to enter the university in fall 2009. They will join our eight current Kenan Music Scholars in this exciting and innovative program.
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Music Department Faculty

Valentin Lanzrein

Valentin Lanzrein
Lecturer

Office: 3115 Kenan Music Building
Email: vl@unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-7955

Valentin Lanzrein  (Lecturer), baritone, a native of Switzerland, came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after nearly ten years of performing, teaching and training in New York City. Lanzrein is an active performer with broad repertoire covering nine languages and a large versatility of styles ranging from baroque to the avant-garde. He was the winner of the Association des Suisse Musiciens & Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung Competition and has since toured Europe, Asia, and the US. His passion for the art song has led him to appearances at the Rheingau Musikfestival (Germany), the Aimez Vous Brahms festival (Switzerland), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) and in the Wednesday at One series at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York.


Lanzrein made his North Carolina debut in Memorial Hall in 2007 as Bobby in Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel.  He also appeared in the Milestones Festival Gala concert as soloist in Stephen Jaffe’s Songs of Turning and as soloist with the Carolina Choir in Bach’s B minor mass and Brahm’s German Requiem.  Most recently he performed with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle as soloist in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.

Highlights of other concert appearances include Faure’s Requiem as soloist with the Stony Brook Choral Union, Raphael in Haydn's Creation as soloist with the Oberlin Musical Union, J. S. Bach's Solo Cantatas Ich habe genug and Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen with the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, and a program of Mozart arias with the BMC-Orchestra. Operatic engagements include the title role in Telemann's Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho and count Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Staller Center for the Performing Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, and Thierry in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites with the Juilliard Opera Center under the direction of Julius Rudel.

Valentin Lanzrein holds the BM and MM degrees from the Juilliard School, an Artist Diploma from Oberlin College, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  
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