Cecily Nall
ADDRESS
University of Tennessee
College of Music
311 Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
Knoxville, TN 37996-4040
Phone
Cecily Nall
Senior Lecturer of Voice
During her international career, leading soprano Cecily Nall performed in a variety of venues throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. Highlights of her performing career include leading and supporting roles with the San Francisco Opera, Baltimore Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Opera Memphis, West Palm Beach Opera, among others. In Europe, Ms. Nall was engaged as a principal artist with the Stadttheater Aachen and Staatstheater Darmstadt and appeared as a guest artist with numerous German theaters including Leipzig, Dortmund, Mannheim, Hannover, Wiesbaden, Würzberg, and Bielefeld, to name a few. Additional international appearances included performances as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy and Charleston, South Carolina, and as Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile.
On the concert stage, Ms. Nall appeared with several orchestras, including the Cincinnati, Kentucky, Dayton, Nashville and Columbus, Ohio Symphony Orchestras. In 2006, she was the soprano soloist with the Point Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh, led by Efraín Amaya, for its tour of Italy. Additionally, she has sung recitals in Atlanta, Birmingham, and Cincinnati.
Cecily Nall first attracted attention as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera, Baltimore Opera, Rosa Ponselle, and Eleanor Steber vocal competitions. She began her professional performing career as a member of the Cincinnati Opera Young American Artists Program (YAAP), and the Ensemble Company of the Cincinnati Opera (ECCO!). A native of Georgia, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, a Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and received additional vocal training at the Brevard Music Center, Brevard, North Carolina, and the American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria.
From 2004-2007, Ms. Nall was Assistant Professor of Voice at the College of Music, Florida State University. While there, she performed several solo and collaborative recitals at the College of Music and appeared as soloist with the Tallahassee Community Chorus and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Cecily Nall was Artist-in-Residence at the Musical Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio from 1997-2004.
Education
MM, Vocal Performance – University of Cincinnati (2004)
BM, Music Education – Berry College, Rome Georgia (1977)