Matthew Valverde, D.M.A., Assistant Professor of Voice at Adams State University, is spending his summer performing for the chamber opera in St. Paul, Minn., and teaching with the Mount Blanca Summer Music Conservatory.
Dr. Valverde performed as the principal protagonist in the world première of Tienda, a chamber opera composed by Reinaldo Moya, composer-in-residence at The Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. This new opera tells the story of Luis Garzón, a musician and the first Mexican immigrant to the Twin Cities. The first performance was at TPT Studios, part of PBS in Minnesota; the second performance was at the Neighborhood House in St. Paul.
Throughout the month of June, Dr. Valverde teaches as part of the Mount Blanca Summer Music Conservatory, where he performs new arrangements of the Canciones del pasado, folk songs from the San Luis Valley collected by Ruth Marie Colville. Composer Mari Esabel Valverde, his sister, has prepared the arrangements specifically for the festival.
In July, Dr. Valverde will travel to the Twin Cities for a second time to perform Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasión segun San Marcos, a collaboration with Schola Cantorum Caracas Venezuela, Border CrosSing, and the Minnesota Symphony.
