Lee, Sylvia Olden, 1917-2004
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Name (Latin)
Lee, Sylvia Olden, 1917-2004
Date of birth
1917-06-29
Date of death
2004-04-10
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Choral conductors
Pianists
Singers
Vocal coaches
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed February 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Lee, Sylvia Olden; pianist, opera singer, choral director; born 29 June 1917 in Meridian, Mississippi, United States; studied piano and organ, Howard University (1933); went to Oberlin as a scholarship student (1935-1938); was a professor of piano and organ at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama (1938) and a professor of piano at Dillard University (1942); studied piano as a scholarship student with Victor Wittgenstein in New York (by 1944); was a Fulbright scholar at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome (1952); was a staff member in the Kathryn Turney Long School at the Metropolitan Opera (1954); received a grant from the German government to study at the Munich Conservatory of Music (1956); moved to Sweden (1963); became a voice coach at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1967-1970); spent twenty-three years in Curtis Institute; master classes in opera, lieder, and spirituals in the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, Lincoln University; was a vocal coach at the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts (in the early 1980s) and teacher of vocal interpretation and style at Howard University (in the 1990s); died 10 April 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
- Lee, Sylvia Olden. The memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, premier African-American classical vocal coach, 2000:t.p. (Sylvia Olden Lee) CIP p. iv (b. 1917)
- Wikipedia, Sept. 22, 2009(Sylvia Olden Lee (29 June 1917-10 April 2004)