“An exceptionally promising young tenor”
“An exceptionally promising young tenor”
Following a round of auditions at Merkin Concert Hall on May 21, 2024, the organization awarded the top prize to tenor Shawn Roth. The Robert Launch Memorial Fund Award winner will take home $6,000.
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Here is a run down of the first-year artists:
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“Roth’s voice soared with each note, highlighting his range”
Of his February 2024 performance in the role of Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at Academy of Vocal Arts, Parterre Box wrote, “An exceptionally promising young tenor, Shawn Roth has a lustrous spinto voice that easily traversed the jagged intervals with precision, and declaimed the text clearly and with dramatic bite.” The First Prize Winner of the 2024 Wagner Society of New York's Singer Awards and the 2021 Marilyn Horne Song Competition, Roth has also won awards in The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, the Meistersinger Competition, the Houston Saengerbund, the Eleanor McCollum Competition, and Neue Stimmen. In fall 2024, Roth joined the roster of the Butler Studio at Houston Grand Opera.
Through his undergraduate studies at Oberlin Conservatory, Roth enjoyed an early professional relationship with the Cleveland Orchestra . . .
“strong vocal and acting chops.”
-Cleveland Classical