Current Fellows

We are extremely grateful to the Rowland Foundation for their support of Emmanuel Music’s Community Connections program.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellows

The artistic staff of Emmanuel Music is pleased to announce the Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellows for the 2009-10 concert season. This Fellowship honors younger artists who have performed with Emmanuel Music, have demonstrated exceptional artistic talent, and have enthusiastically participated within the Emmanuel community of musicians. Fellows are featured in the concert season and in the Community Connections Programs, and they are given substantial publicity in all concert programs and marketing materials.

Soprano, Susan Consoli, has been a soloist with Emmanuel Music since 2005. Her active career in oratorio, opera and recital have led her throughout the United States and abroad. She has worked under such notable conductors as Grant Llewellyn, Bruno Weil, Laurence Cummings, William Jon Gray, Craig Smith, John Harbison, John Finney, Tom Hall and Ryan Turner as well as director/choreographer Chen Shi-Zheng and choreographer Tero Saarinen. Ms. Consoli has been a soloist with the Carmel Bach Festival since 2004. She can be heard on the Handel & Haydn Society recording of All is Bright for Avie Records. Ms. Consoli is a member of the voice faculty at both Phillips Academy of Andover and Phillips Exeter Academy.

Mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo has appeared as a soloist with such musical organizations as Firebird Ensemble, Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Brandeis New Music Concerts, New Gallery Concert Series, Boston Early Music Festival, Callithumpian Consort, and Chorus pro Musica, and under such conductors as Helmut Rilling, Martin Pearlman, and Stephen Stubbs. Ms. Lobo completed her Master’s degree in 2009 at Boston University, where she performed the role of Third Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Ino in Eccles’s Semele. She was also recently seen as L'Enfant in MetroWest Opera's production of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, and on tour in Japan with Cambridge Concentus performing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion solo-voice under the direction of Joshua Rifkin.

Oboist Jennifer Slowik performs regularly with Cantata Singers and the Orchestra of Indian Hill, and has served as Principal Oboist with Opera Boston and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She has also appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Chamber Music Society, Alea III, the Vermont Mozart Festival and North Shore Music Theater. A committed advocate of new music, Ms. Slowik has worked closely with composers Robert Ceeley and Alla Cohen, with Boston's Dinosaur Annex, Auros Group for New Music, New York's Sequitur Ensemble, and Alarm Will Sound. She is a founding member of the award-winning woodwind quintet Southspoon Winds. Ms. Slowik is on the faculty of St. Mark's School in Southboro, MA.