Virginia Dupuy

	Virginia Dupuy Professor of Music Voice Department Division of Music Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University
VIRGINIA DUPUY, MEZZO-SOPRANO	email: vdupuy@mail.smu.edu

Virginia Dupuy has earned a reputation as one of the finest recital and concert singers in the United States. She has championed American Music in recordings such as the Grammy nominated “Voces Americanas”, and she premiered the role of “Crone” in Conrad Susa’s opera “Wise Women”. Fanfare magazine hailed her recording of Dominick Argento’s Pulitzer Prize Winner “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf” as one of the top classical recordings of the Year. Ms. Dupuy made her Lincoln Center debut with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall and has appeared with the Orchestras of Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, Eugene, and Honolulu. Ms. Dupuy, a Professor of Music at SMU Meadows School of the Arts, is the leading scholar and well-known interpreter of music set to Emily Dickinson’s texts. Gasparo Records, Inc. released “Dwell in Possibility”, a CD featuring Ms. Dupuy with Shields-Collins Bray of Voices of Change performing twenty-four Dickinson poems and one letter set to music by her esteemed friends including Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, Dan Welcher, Richard Hundley, Simon Sargon, and William Jordan. Virginia Dupuy continued her performances of contemporary composers in 2007-2009 with concerts of Golijov, Danielpour, Heggie, Higdon and Bolcom with the composers present. This season she premiered Eudora Welty’s short story “The Whistle” set by Crafton Beck with the Mississippi Symphony and perform songs, duets and arias of Dvorak with the Georgetown Symphony Society’s 2009 Festival. Also with Jake Heggie, she sang songs and duets including texts of Sister Helen Prejean with the Cliburn’s Modern at the Modern in Ft. Worth with pianist and producer Shields Collins Bray. She will continue to perform “Emily Dickinson in Song” with pianist Dale Dietert throughout the Midwest. Virginia Dupuy is in demand as a teacher of Master Classes and has students who have recently won the Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and are apprentices at Santa Fe Opera, Chautauqua, Des Moines, Opera North and Los Angeles Opera. Ms. Dupuy is the liaison and founder of the Emerging Artist Program, a partnership for SMU graduate students and The Dallas Opera. The summer course for singers at SMU-in-Taos is a project for voice students produced by Ms. Dupuy. Virginia Dupuy was named Distinguished Alumnae at Southwestern University in 2001. On March 27, 2010 she will produce a “Moby Dick Symposium” prior to the opening of the opera by Jake Heggie at the Winspear Opera house in partnership with The Dallas Opera, Meadows School of the Arts, and the Texas Book Festival.

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