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.