Ann Almond Pope and Delores Beery
Delores Beery, a voice instructor at Lee University, will present a faculty recital on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Squires Recital Hall.
Ms. Beery, mezzo soprano, will be accompanied by Ann Almond Pope on the piano. They will perform works from composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke and Alec Wilder, such as “Stormy Weather,” “April in Paris” and songs from “The Wizard of Oz.”
“We have a program planned that should be fun for the audience and the performers,” Ms. Beery stated.
Ms. Beery has received many awards including the Austrian Ministry of Arts prize for singing (full scholarship winner), Salzburg Summer Mozarteum Music Academy, National Broadcast Performance Award Winner (ORF-TV, Vienna, Austria) and the International Rotary Scholarship for Studies in Germany. She was also awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.
Ms. Beery performed in Europe for 15 years in opera, chamber and sacred music, musicals, radio and television. She has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic with the New Glenn Miller Orchestra, and toured with the New York Harlem Opera Company European Tour of the musical “Showboat” in Holland, France, Monaco, Belgium, Austria, Sicily, Switzerland, Germany and Yugoslavia.
She earned her master’s degree in vocal performance from Wichita State University and her bachelor’s in music education from Friends University. She also earned a degree in opera from The University Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria and one in oratorio and art song. Ms. Beery currently teaches voice part time at Lee and is an associate director of the Chattanooga Girls’ Choir.
Accompanist Pope is currently a private piano teacher in Chattanooga. She has taught at multiple universities and colleges including Bryan College, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and Bowling Green State University, where she earned her master’s degree. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University.
The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the School of Music at Lee University at 614-8240.