Ms. Kelly Samarzea
Voice
Assistant Professor
Pittsburg State University
Department of Music
1701 S. Broadway
Pittsburg, KS 66762
620/235-4481 office phone
620/235-4468 fax
ksamarze@pittstate.edu
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Kelly Samarzea, a contralto hailing originally from Hot Springs, Arkansas, is the newest member of the voice faculty at PSU. Currently completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Indiana University, she was formerly a member of the Ithaca College faculty in Ithaca, New York. Her many performance credits include opera and concert work with Cincinnati Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Indiana University Opera Theater, New York State Baroque, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Meridian Symphony Orchestra (NPR), Anderson Symphony Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and Bloomington Music Works. She has additionally been featured on extensive concert tours throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Ms. Samarzea has received prizes and honors through Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Opera Music Theater International, and National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Her operatic roles include Dame Quickly in Falstaff, Adelaide in Arabella, Auntie in Peter Grimes, Lady with Hat in The Ghosts of Versailles, Gertrude in Hansel und Gretel, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible, Marcellina, in Le Nozze de Figaro, the Baroness in Vanessa, and the title role in Menotti’s The Medium among others. Concert works include Verdi’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and the 9th Symphony, Bach’s St. John’s Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Honegger’s King David, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater.
Ms. Samarzea’s continuing interest in artistic and collaborative work has led her to a feature in the Women in Music Festival at Eastman School of Music, and a recent lecture-presentation of songs by Japanese composer, Koscak Yamada, with theorist Dr. David Pacun at the College Music Society Northeast Conference in New York. Her renowned teachers and coaches have included: Patricia Havranek, Carlos Montané, Carol Smith, James King, Virginia Zeani, Nicolai Rossi-Lemeni, and Rosalind Elias.
