L-R, Lara Wilson, DMA, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Music, with prize-winning students Reagan Martin, Jackson Hanle and Austin Green.Three University of Alabama at Birmingham students won top awards in the Alabama State Auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, held Feb. 19-21.
All three are students in the UAB Opera Workshop in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Music, says Lara Wilson, DMA, visiting assistant professor. They will next compete in the Southeastern Regional NATS Competition, to be held March 14-16 in Valdosta, Georgia.
Austin Green, a senior music education major from Brookwood, Alabama, won first place in the Fourth-Year Collegiate Tenor, Bass, Baritone category. He sang “Fac me cruce custodiri” from the “Stabat Mater” by Haydn.
Music major Reagan Martin, a sophomore from Cullman, Alabama, won first place in the Second-Year Collegiate Treble Voice category and third place in the Music Theater Second-Year Treble Voice category. She performed “Glitter and Be Gay” from “Candide.”
Jackson Hanle, a sophomore physics major from Birmingham, won second place in the Second Year Collegiate Tenor, Bass, Baritone category. He sang a piece by Brahms called “Mit vierzig Jahren.” Hanle is a member of the Honors College’s Science and Technology Honors Program.
All three students are performing in scenes this semester from “Don Pasquale,” “The Ballad of Baby Doe” and “Don Giovanni,” among others.