Dr. Liana Valente, Soprano

Special Courses Designed

Pellissippi State Technical Community College (1999 – 2001)

Designed two continuing education,non-credit introductory music courses for members of the community;

Who’s Afraid of Opera, to be taught during the Knoxville Opera Company season So You’re Goin’ to the Symphony, to be taught during the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra season

Roane State Community College (1999 – 2001)

Designed and taught a Six-week Accelerated Music Appreciation course created to be taught at various job sites within Roane and Knox Counties

Lexington County Arts Association (1997 – 1998)

Coordinator and Instructor, Lexington Lights

  • Created a six-week theater summer day camp for children ages 8 – 18.
  • Designed the camp curriculum encompassing theater, dance, TV and film acting, and juggling
  • Recruited and hired qualified instructors
  • Recruited students
  • Wrote all newspaper promotional materials
  • Taught Musical Theater and Audition Training Classes

 

Directing

One False Move by Susan Kander
April, 2005
Wesleyan College Music Department
Porter Family Auditorium
   
Another Openin' Another Show
An Evening of Opera and Musical Theater Scenes
Wesleyan College Music Department
Grassmann-Porter Studio Theater
   Kiss Me Kate
   Carmen
   Fiddler on the Roof
   DuBarry Was a Lady
   Down in the Valley
   Merrily We Roll Along
April, 2004
 
   
Fantasies and Fairy Tales
An Evening of Opera Scenes
Wesleyan College Music Department
Grassmann-Porter Studio Theater
   The Marriage of Figaro
   The Most Happy Fella
   Hansel and Gretel
   West Side Story
March, 2003
 
   
Li'l Abner (Musical Director)
February, 1998
Lexington County Arts Association
Lexington, South Carolina

 

 

Compositions and Arrangements

Trübsinnig for Solo Viola and Chamber Orchestra – An original composition for violist Melanie Reed

J.S. Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings
Elliot Del Borgo Christmastide
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6, No. 6, First Movement
Antonin Dvorak Largo (from the New World Symphony)
Philip Gordon Pachelbel's Canon for Orchestra
George Handel Pastoral Symphony from Messiah
Quincy C. Hilliard Chorale Number 10 in G Major
Brendon McBrien Adra's Dance
Edward MacDowell To A Wild Rose
Wolfgang Mozart Divertimento No. 6, K 188
Wolfgang Mozart Menuette No. 1 from Sechzehn Menuette, K. 176
Jared Spears Dance Diabolique
Johann Stamitz Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat Major (Allegro Assai)
Traditional It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Traditional Joy to the World