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ACCOMPANIST
CAROLINA
FLORES,
accompanist and assistant conductor
Carolina
Flores, a native of Spain, received her Bachelor of Musical
Arts and a Master in Music Pedagogy from the Superior Conservatory
of Music in Zaragoza and the Royal Superior Conservatory of
Music in Madrid respectively. In the United States Ms. Flores
was a Merit Scholarship Student at the Manhattan School of Music
in New York where she received her Bachelor and Master of Music
degrees in Piano Performance.
Ms.
Flores is a prize winner in several international and national
piano
competitions in both Europe and the United States. In Spain,
she was a
member of the Schola Cantorum of Zaragoza, a tour chamber choir
specialized in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. Choral tours
as director include performances in St. Peter‚s Basilica and
The Basilica of the Twelve Apostles in Rome, Basilica of St.
Francis of Assissi, the Cathedral-Basilica of Santa Maria in
Rieti, and St. Stephan‚s Cathedral in Vienna.
In
New York City Ms. Flores has appeared at Weill Hall at Carnegie
Hall, Cami Hall, and Rockefeller Center, and performed as concerto
soloist with the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra under the baton
of Maestro Sixten Ehrling. She was a member of the Piano Faculty
of the historic Third Street Music School Settlement in Manhattan,
and the Choral Director at The Academy of St. Francis and St.
Lucy. She accompanied the New York Archdiocesan Children‚s Choir
that performed before the 1995 Pontifical Mass celebrated by
His Holiness Pope John Paul II in Central Park.
In
Connecticut, Ms. Flores has been Chamber Music Faculty member
at the Connecticut Alliance of Music Summer Camp, and a member
of Yale Camerata and the Yale Pro Musica chamber choir, which
served for a week as choir-in-residence at St. Paul‚s Cathedral,
London in 2002. Currently she is the Director of Music at Saint
Theresa Church in Trumbull and she is on her last year of the
DMA program in Choral Conducting at the Hartt School of Music
of the University of Hartford, under the tutelage of Dr. Edward
Bolkovac. She has directed the Hartt Camerata, the Women‚s Chorus
and the Hartt Chorale, and has taught undergraduate choral conducting
as well as served as staff accompanist in the vocal department.
Ms. Flores is an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode
Island where she directs the
University Choir.
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