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Noelle Noonan
Noelle Noonan, Soprano, is a member of several national honor societies for academics and the arts. She graduated summa cum laude from West Virginia’s Bethany College. Her stage credits while in West Virginia included Hamlet, The Man of La Mancha, Sex Drugs and Rock n’ Roll, as well as many recitals and private concerts in the Wheeling/Pittsburgh area.
Ms. Noonan studied French language and culture at La Sorbonne in Paris where she graduated with a Diplome de la langue francaise. She was also a voice student at the Conservatoire National de Region de Boulogne-Brillancourt where her studio instructor was soprano Liliane Mazeron. There, she performed in Benjamin Britten’s L’Arche de Noe and was the soprano soloist in his Easter cantata Rejoice in the Lamb.
She graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance in May 2003. While at Fredonia, Ms. Noonan performed the role of Lady Billows from Britten’s opera Albert Herring in Opera Scenes 2003, performed operatic arias with the College Symphony as a Concerto Competition Winner, and was frequently a featured soloist with both the university and numerous regional ensembles.
Currently, Ms. Noonan is pursuing a DMA in Vocal Performance at the University of Minnesota where she portrayed the role of Mozart’s Countess Almaviva in the 2006 production of Le nozze di Figaro. She is a soprano section leader at Saint Olaf Catholic Church in Minneapolis and a cantor at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Roseville. She also maintains an active private voice studio. Ms. Noonan is a student of John De Haan and Elizabeth Mannion.
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