Cheryl Lynn Studer

Internationally known soprano Cheryl Studer attended UT from 1975 to 1979. Leonard Bernstein offered her full scholarships to study for three consecutive summers at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood (1975–77). Studer debuted at Tanglewood in 1976 in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She then appeared in a series of concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1978–79. Baritone Hans Hotter persuaded Studer to go to Europe for a year and study at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She then was hired as a permanent member of the Bavarian State Opera, where she spent two consecutive seasons before moving on to Munich and then Berlin. She made her North American opera debut in the role of Micaela (Carmen) in 1984 for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She has sung in the world’s great opera houses, including the Metropolitan. She appears regularly as a concert soloist with the world’s great orchestras, such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Boston Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A number of recordings featuring her have won numerous prizes, awards, and distinctions.

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