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Laurie Rubin Wins First Place in Concerto Competition, Performs at the Kennedy Center, and is Awarded a Fellowship to the Aspen Vocal Chamber Music Program
Story by Linda Shockley. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Laurie
Rubin, a sophomore voice major
from Los Angeles, tied for first place in the
Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.
She'll perform with the orchestra on May 16. For the
competition, Rubin performed Stephano's aria "Que Fais tu Blanche touterelle"
from Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, and "Una voce
poco fa" from Rossini's Barber of Seville.
Rubin studies voice with Richard Miller, professor of singing and director of the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center. Miller said of her work, "Laurie is a very talented young woman. She has a wonderful ear for sound, for timbre and for language. She is a delight to have as a student."
On March 30, Rubin performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as a featured guest of the Very Special Arts-sponsored Young Soloists 15th Anniversary Concert. (Rubin received the group's Young Soloist Award in 1997.) Charles McCardell wrote of her performance in The Washington Post, "Vocalist Laurie Rubin brought a voluptuous sound to Gershwin's "Summertime" and a sweeter, more lilting tone to Gounod's "Que Fais tu Blanche touterelle."
"Performing at the Kennedy Center was very exciting,"Rubin says. "But the most exciting part was performing in celebration of the Very Special Arts, which promotes talented performers who happen to have disabilities. It's such an honor to represent so many talented musicians. And it's another opportunity to say that people with disabilities can have careers in music."
Most recently, Rubin received a full fellowship to the Aspen Vocal Chamber Music Program, which runs nine weeks in June through August.
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