Rotary Scholarship Awardee Performance

 

The Jamestown Rotary has been providing scholarships since 2002, giving a total of $14,000. 

 

Siena Miller is this year’s Rotary Scholarship Awardee at the Chautauqua Music Department. This is her second year at Chautauqua.  She sang several numbers in German, Italian and English to the delight of the Rotarians and their guests.

 

Ms. Miller was raised in Portland, Oregon and will begin her Masters of Music, this fall as a student of Marlena Malas. She is a recent graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory.  For the past two summers she was a Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where she was part of the world premiere of Jack Perla’s opera “Shalimar the Clown”.  Siena has sung in master classes for such artists as Renee Fleming, Placido Domingo, and Marilyn Horne.  She sang Second Lady in the Magic Flute this summer and performed excerpts of Rigoletto with the Clarence Summer Orchestra.  Siena began to play the violin at the age of 5 and is dual citizen of Germany and the US. 

 

Ms. Miller was accompanied by Martin Dube’ .  He has accompanied Chautauqua Music Department awardees for ten years.  A native of Montmagny (Quebec, Canada), Mr. Dube’ studied piano at Laval University before pursuing his master’s in chamber music at McGill University.  The recipient of a scholarship from Manhattan School of Music, he studied accompanying under Warren Jones.

 

From 1997 to 2000 he was associate coach at the Julliard School of Music and has been a coach at Chautauqua Institution since 1997.  Other positions include serving as vocal coach at McGill University, regular visiting coach at the Montreal Opera, Co-director of the Chamber Music Society of Quebec City, official accompanist for the Montreal International Voice Competition and is now an official voice coach at Montreal University and a respected collaborative artist.