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| Vol. 18, No. 17 | Jan. 21, 1999 |
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| Vol. 18, No. 17 | Jan. 21, 1999 |
Pianist Lisa Papili, AS '79, and tenor Gary Seydell, AS '90. will perform. Both hold bachelor's degrees in music from UD.
"We hope to encourage alumni support of the Performing Arts Series by featuring successful alumni who are familiar to many of our graduates," Christy Pennington, coordinator of the Performing Arts Series, said. "Gary and Lisa were recommended to us by faculty in the music department."
Tickets for the alumni concert are $15 for the general public, $10 for UD faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens and $6 for students and children under 12.
For information on the performance or for tickets, available at UD box offices call 831-2204.
Papili has performed as a soloist and guest artist with symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles though out the U.S. and Europe.
She also is much in demand internationally as an accompanist.
A native of Delaware, she studied at UD with David Brown, Michael Steinberg and Nancy Gamble Pressley. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where she was a scholarship student with Constance Keene and John Browning.
As first-prize winner of the 1983 Austrian American competition, Papili studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under the guidance of Alexis Weissenberg. She has won top prizes in several other competitions including the American National Chopin Competition, the Young Musicians Competitions in New York City, the G.B. Dealey Award and the National Arts Club Competition.
A native of Wilmington, Seydell holds a master's of music degree in vocal performance and an artist diploma in opera from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
He is a two-time winner of the CCM's Normal Treigle Opera Scholarship and was awarded a University Graduate Scholarship for all four years of his graduate studies.
Professionally, Seydell has sung with the Cincinnati Opera, the Dayton Opera, the Kentucky Opera and the San Antonio Opera, as well as the Northern Kentucky Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and the Kennett Symphony.
In 1995, Seydell was an opera fellow at the Aspen Music Festival where he sang the roles of Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and Jaquino in Fidelio.
In April of 1997, he was a finalist in the Paris National Opera's Lyric Center for Young Artists. In the fall of 1998, he made his debut with Opera Delaware in Out of the Rain and Billy and Zelda.
