On this episode Jim "Jimbo" Kovacik talks with Dr. Marion Russell Dickson!!! And, it's a historic episode with a lot of firsts for the podcast - first guest with a doctorate in music, first opera performer on the show, and first guest to perform at Carnegie Hall!
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW...
Houston-based soprano Marion Russell Dickson is nationally known for her beautiful, clear and florid voice, with which she combines her joy for life and love during performances. Opera News noted Ms. Russell Dickson as one of four standout performers, noting: "Marion Russell’s clarion Patience..." in Eastman Opera Theatre’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience.
Marion Dickson was a 2009 Guest Artist with Distinguished Concerts International (D.C.I.N.Y.), NY and made her Carnegie Hall Recital Debut that same year. Marion Dickson made her Wortham Center Debut with the Houston Latin American Philharmonic Orchestra in May of 2013. Other experiences as a concert soloist include Boccherini’s Se d’un amor tirrano, Haydn’s The Creation, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s Cantata No. 140, Wachet Auf, Mozart’s Requiem, Mozart’s Missa Brevis, Handel’s Messiah, DuBois’ The Seven Last Words of Christ, and Mozart’s Vesperare solennes de confessore.
A 2014 graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, Marion has earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance, Pedagogy and Voice Science. And, She has taught at the University of St. Thomas, in Houston, Texas, Sam Houston State University, Lone Star College Kingwood and Montgomery, Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, and Houghton College, Houghton, New York. Her students have attended schools such as Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Baylor University, and the University of St. Thomas, and have been accepted to programs such as Taos Opera Institute, Opera in the Ozarks, and American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Gratz, Austria.
