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Tonya Currier
Lecturer (Diction, Applied Voice)
Office: Etherredge Center, Room 126
Email: Tonyac@usca.edu
Tonya Currier, has just returned to Augusta from Chicago where she sang the Marschallin in famous final trio from Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in concert for the Lyric Opera of. Chicago. was the understudy for in Der Rosenkavalier at Chicago. Her soprano credits include: The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, with the North Arkansas Symphony Donna Elvira opposite Sherrill Milnes as Don Giovanni; Clara's arias from Beethoven's Egmont with Raymond Leppard and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni for The Academy of Vocal Arts.
Ms. Currier made her Carnegie Hall as the featured soloist for the Durufle′ Requiem with the New England Symphonic Ensemble. Her concert appearances include Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Milwaukee Symphony; and numerous concerts with the symphonies of Lake Forest, Santa Cruz, Augusta, Mansfield, and Greenville.
She sang Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte with Chicago Lyric Opera Center, Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera, Central City Opera, and the Academy of Vocal Arts. Ms. Currier has also performed: Angelina in La Cenerentola with Mississippi Opera and Florentine Opera; Rosina in The Barber of Seville with Connecticut Opera Theater, Newberry Opera; and Carmen in Carmen with the South Carolina Opera Theater, Stephano in Romeo and Juliet Mersedes in Carmen both with Augusta Opera. Other lead roles with Capital City Opera, Lake George Opera, Pamiro Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Pennsylvania Opera Theater.
She recently retired as an Associate professor of Music from the University of South Carolina School of Music. She holds a Masters in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory, a Bachelor’s in Performance from the Crane School of Music, with post graduate studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.
Among her recording credits she performing the role of Grace in Roman Fever by Robert Ward. This production, in which Mr. Ward was a collaborator, was produced and filmed by South Carolina Educational Television.
