Janet Brehm Ziegler, Soprano
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Professional Ensembles
PRIZM Voice and Percussion Duo with Aaron Ziegler, Iowa City, IA. Fall 2012-present
PRIZMDuo is dedicated to expanding the repertoire of voice and percussion works by commissioning new pieces from young composers. To date PRIZMDuo has commissioned and premiered five works, including 200 Uses for a Paperclip by Jason Palamara, Bija by Brian Penkrot, Songs of Death and As We Continue Across the Country by Dr. Zach Zubow, and Patience by Sarah Modene. Along with commissioning new works, PRIZMDuo also creates their own arrangements of existing pieces for voice and percussion.
 
Regional Appearances:
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New Music on the Point, Lake Dunmore, VT June 2017
          Details TBD


PRIZMDuo October Festival of New Music, University of Toledo, Toledo OH, October 6th - 8th 2016
           This program, hosted by The University of Toledo, featured several of PRIZMDuo's newly commissioned works. Each composer was onsite for lessons  
           with current University of Toledo students, and for general questions regarding their new pieces. During the week PRIZMDuo brought in Altus Flute Artist
           Lisa Schroeder for a master class with the university's flute students, composer Zach Zubow from Queen's University for a lecture recital, and Soprano
            Janet Brehm Ziegler, for a master class with select vocalists. The week ended with a concert open to the public featuring newly commissioned world
            premiers.

New Music on the Point, Lake Dunmore, VT May 2015
           This program is an intense performance workshop for composers and musicians of solely music of the 21st Century.  While onsite I performed with the  
            JACK quartet members on pieces written by attending composers from around the world. Private Lessons with  Jennifer Beattie and Phyllis Bryn-  
            Julson.
         
           Soprano, The Vain Tree composed by Daniel Choi
           Soprano, The Sudden Walk composed by Lu-Han Li poetry by Franz Kafka

Center for New Music, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. February 2013
            Soprano soloist, Bija, with Percussionist Aaron Ziegler, composed by Brian Penkrot
            Soprano soloist, 200 Uses for a Paperclip, with Percussionist Aaron Ziegler, composed by Jason Palamara

Center for New Music, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. December 2012
            Soprano soloist, Forever and Sunsmell composed by John Cage

Composer’s Symposium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. December 2012
            This workshop features newly composed works by university composers from several area  universities. The idea is to gain exposure for your works and      
            to share ideas with other New Music composers.    
                    Soprano, As we continue across the Country, with Percussionist Aaron Ziegler, composed by Zach Zubow

Center for New Music, conducted by Dr. David Gompper, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Fall 2011
            Soprano soloist, Sappho Fragments composed by Steven Stucky

La Belle Musique de France, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo OH. April 2010
            Soloist, Depuie le Jour, Gustav Charpentier

​Haydn’s Mass in B flat with the University of Toledo Orchestra, Toledo, OH. December 2009
            Soprano soloist

Operetta
Martha Ellen-Tye Summer Theater, Iowa City, IA
Lady Saphir                                   Patience                                     Gilbert and Sullivan        
Fairy, Soprano Chorus                 Iolanthe                                     Gilbert and Sullivan        
 
 
Toledo Opera, Toledo, OH
Lead Soprano Chorus member                     Roméo et Juliette                         Charles Gounod               
Mother and Soprano Chorus                         Madame Butterfly                       Giacomo Puccini             
Soprano Chorus member                              Wagner Gala                                Richard Wagner                
Soprano Chorus member                              I Pagliacci                                     Ruggero Leoncavallo      
Soprano Chorus                                              Le Nozze di Figaro                        W. A. Mozart                     
Lead Soprano Chorus member                    Faust                                             Charles Gounod               
 
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Martha Ellen-Tye Opera Theater, Iowa City, IA
Magda Sorel                                 The Consul                                              Gian-Carlo Menotti         
The Friend                                    Amelia Goes to the Ball                          Gian-Carlo Menotti         
The Governess                            Turn of the Screw                                    Benjamin Britten             

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