In addition, Judah Taylor attends the Juilliard Pre-College with support from The Epstein Family Foundation Scholarship.
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Judah has received acting scholarships from American Academy of Dramatic Arts 2019 and AMDA 2018, 2020. This rising artist has performed at the 2020 Mount Vernon Mayoral Inauguration and he is a current member of the Greater Centennial AME Zion Men’s Chorus. placed first in the 2020 William Warfield Scholarship Fund Classical Vocal Competition for African American High School Students, with his amazing performance of “Caro, Mio Ben”. Judah Taylor, sophomore at Denzel Washington School of the Arts, in Mount Vernon, New York. Committed to integrating community activism with her musical life, Bullock is also a prominent voice for social consciousness and change. Her growing discography features Grammy-nominated accounts of West Side Story and John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, which she recorded with the composer conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In concert, she has collaborated with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic, while her recital highlights include appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Celebrity Series, Washington’s Kennedy Center, the Mostly Mozart and Ojai Music festivals, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bullock previously made debuts at San Francisco Opera in the world premiere of Girls of the Golden West, Santa Fe Opera in Doctor Atomic, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Dutch National Opera in The Rake’s Progress, and the English National Opera, Spain’s Teatro Real, and Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre in the title role of The Indian Queen. Also, an innovative curator in high demand, she holds notable positions including opera programming host of the new broadcast channel All Arts, founding core member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), 2018-19 Artist-in-Residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence of the San Francisco Symphony, and 2020-22 Artist-in-Residence of London’s Guildhall School. Combining versatile artistry with a probing intellect and commanding stage presence, she has, in her early 30s, already headlined productions and concerts at preeminent arts institutions around the world. One of Musical America’s 2021 “Artists of the Year,” American classical singer Julia Bullock is “a musician who delights in making her own rules” ( New Yorker). Most recently, Jazmine was understudy for the role of Tonina in Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole and will be featured in Eastman Opera Theatre’s virtual performances of Our Voices and Postcard from Morocco. Jazmine Saunders, soprano, studying vocal performance at the Eastman School of Music, is the 2020-2021 William Warfield Scholarship Fund recipient. Her career highlights include performance at the Young Artist Auditions, Rochester Philharmonic League winner of the Tessa Martin Award for Female Vocalists grant recipient of the Friends of Eastman Opera opportunity for the Italian language program, Si Parla Si Canta, in Arona, Italy and singing the soprano solo in Bach’s Cantata 114 as a member of the Eastman Chorale. “In addition, you help provide a platform for our young talented artists to shine, as they uplift our spirit through the beauty of music.”
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“By supporting our events, you are funding life-changing programs which provide vital monetary support, connections, encouragement, and performance experience necessary to further the development of our African American youth who desire a career in classical vocal music,” stated Lolita Forsett, President of the WWSF Board of Directors. I am beyond thankful to be connected to this amazing board.” “Not only does the William Warfield Scholarship Fund play a significant role in my ability to attend the Eastman School of Music,” says Saunders, “but it shows me that I am supported and invested in as a Black classical musician. Over four decades, recipients of the William Warfield Scholarship have included such notable singers as Eastman alumna and current faculty member soprano Nicole Cabell, winner of the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition singer and choirmaster Jason Alexander Holmes, Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Boychoir, and bass-baritone Jamal Moore, who was featured with the University of Rochester a cappella ensemble The Yellowjackets on the NBC competition The Sing-Off in 2011 and is performing internationally with the a cappella group The Exchange.