THE ENCHANTRESS, The Ohio Valley Symphony

October 12, 2024
at 7:30 p.m.
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The Enchantress Carline Waugh joins conductor Peter Stafford Wilson for a marvelous evening of vocal music by George Gershwin, Victor Herbert and Gian Carlo Menotti. Carline’s enchanting voice will beguile you in this evening of song.

Peter Stafford Wilson, conductor
Peter Stafford Wilson is Music Director of Ohio’s Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Concurrently, he holds the post of Music Director of the Westerville Symphony, and was named Principal Conductor of Tulsa Ballet in 2012. With the SSO he has brought international attention for Agriculture and the Arts Growing Together and American Made: Celebrating Our Manufacturing Heritage and a new multi-media, multi discipline production of Gustav Holst’s The Planets resulted in a sellout house. Mr. Wilson held the posts of Assistant and Associate Conductor of The Columbus Symphony Orchestra for 28 seasons. Mr. Wilson has had enormous community reaction and has been recognized as “Best Music Director” and “Best in the ‘Bus 2015” for his work in Columbus. He also served as Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra, which he has regularly led in local and regional concerts.

During Mr. Wilson’s 25 year tenure, the SSO has more than doubled its public offerings and seen its budget and community financial support grow more than 500%. Mr. Wilson has led over 100 performances with BalletMet Columbus.

A native of North Carolina, Mr. Wilson studied at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where his primary mentor was the late Thomas Schippers. During his years at CCM, he became a leading exponent of contemporary music, often collaborating with faculty and student composers, including the Conservatory’s Visiting Professor of Composition, Lukas Foss. He also studied at the Aspen Music School, where he studied with Dennis Russell Davies, Eastern Music Festival (on whose faculty he subsequently served), Pierre Monteux School, Boris Goldovsky Summer Opera Institute and Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where he was associated with Franco Ferrara. He has work with Canton Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra and has guest conducted the orchestras of Bozeman, Charlotte, Chautauqua, Dallas, Detroit, Erie, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Louisville, North Carolina, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Roanoke, Seattle, Syracuse, Tucson, Tulsa, West Virginia, Wheeling and Youngstown. He also led the Independence Day Concert with Peter Nero’s Philly Pops Orchestra and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic’s highly popular “Awesome Classics” series, as well as programs with Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo and Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in China. No stranger to the lyric theater, Mr. Wilson has held the positions of Principal Conductor of South Carolina’s Opera Charleston and Music Director of the Ohio Light Opera and conducted performances at Spoleto Festival USA, Young Artists Opera Theater, College Light Opera, Canton Lyric Opera and Otterbein College Opera Theatre.

Mr. Wilson and his wife, Barbara Karam Wilson, Director of Corporate Tax for the White Castle System, reside in Westerville, Ohio. When not conducting, he enjoys traveling, golf and reading. He is also a wine enthusiast and an avid gourmet cook. Wilson and his wife also serve as staff for their two rescue kitties, Murphy and Smidgen.

Carline Waugh, soprano
Carline Waugh, a Jamaican-born soprano praised for her ability to mesmerize audiences, has performed throughout the United States, Italy, Russia, Jamaica and other parts of the world. A powerful singing actor, she has appeared in three Italian premieres with the International Opera Theatre−as Ermia in “Sogno di una notte di mezza estate Sogno di Una Notte di Mezza Estate” by Von De Guzmán, the Madonna in Mariano Garau’s “Hildegard Von Bingen Bambina Mistica e Le Vergine Nera, and Arlene Fox in “Buffalo Soldier,” by Carlo Pedini. She has performed with Peach State Opera as Mimi in Puccini’s “La bohème” and Michaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, and recently returned to the company as Rosalinde in “Die Fledermaus.” Other recent roles include Gretel in Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” Liu in “Turandot,” Zerlina in “Don Giovanni,” Valencienne in “The Merry Widow,” Polly in “Die Dreigroschenoper,” and Gianetta in “The Gondoliers.”

On the concert stage, Ms. Waugh has appeared as the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s “Gloria” (West Virginia Symphony Orchestra), Haydn’s “Lord Nelson Mass” (Huntington Symphony Orchestra), Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” (Missouri Symphony), Brahms’ “A German Requiem” (Colombia Choral Union), Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” (St. Petersburg, Russia, Symphony Orchestra), and Dubois’ “Seven Last Words of Christ” (The Haverford Singers). Other recent performances include Handel’s “Messiah,” Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor” and J.S. Bach’s “Magnificat in D Major.”
Ms. Waugh has won competitions including the Monroe Symphony’s Marjorie Stricklin Vocal Competition, the Beethoven Club of Memphis Vocal Competition, Thayer Young Artist Competition, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Regional Competition, the Classical Singer Regional Competition, and the Young Artist Competition sponsored by the National Association of Business and Professional Women’s Club of Long Island. She has been a finalist in the Harlem Opera and the Opera Ebony Vocal Competitions in New York and was a regional winner for the New York Lyric Opera Competition. She has received scholarship awards from foundations including the Jamaica CHASE Fund, the Music Club of Baton Rouge, and the Baton Rouge Opera Guild.

She earned a Bachelor of Music Performance at Atlantic Union College, a Master of Music Performance at the University of Mississippi, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from Louisiana State University. Since earning her doctorate, she has lectured at Lincoln University (MO) and Jackson University (FL), and is currently an Associate Professor of Voice at Marshall University (WV). Ms. Waugh was recently awarded a Future of Music Faculty Fellowship, powered by the Sphinx Venture Fund and administered by the Cleveland Institute of Music.