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Christopher Lacy is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Arkansas, where he serves as Artistic Director of the University Opera Theater.
As a stage director, his productions at UAF have included La Boheme, La Traviata, The Turn of the Screw, The Medium, La Voix Humaine, Rinaldo and Suor Angelica.
His other duties at the University of Arkansas include the teaching of Italian, French, and German diction, as well as Vocal Literature.
In 2001, he founded the Fayetteville Opera Chorus and serves as its conductor.In the summer of 2001, he was on the artistic staff of Spazio Musica Orvieto, in Orvieto, Italy for a production of Verdi's Falstaff, working under Graziella Ravazzi and Ricardo Marsano of La Scala Milano.
He was Assistant Conductor to Sarah Caldwell for a production in 1999 of the Blacher Abstrakt Oper No. 1. He toured Italy in the summer of 1998 as a collaborative pianist and served as interpreter in the vocal studio of Alain Billiard the Institute Circle Frescobaldi in Ferrara. He holds a diploma from the Centro Linguistico Dante Alighieri in Florence, Italy. He has worked with the University of Missouri - Kansas City Opera Theater, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Kansas Opera Theater, Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, where he served as coordinator of the Scenes programs. He has studied the art of vocal coaching with Margo Garret, Grammy Award winning accompanist to Kathleen Battle.
A member of ASCAP, his compositions are the winners of numerous awards including the 1989 Virgil Thomson Award. He has been awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council for 2009. His compositions have been performed world wide, and he has recieved grants and commissions from major funding organizations such as the Sosland Foundation, The Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, and the Stern Foundation. His orchestral works have been performed by the Kansas City and North Arkansas Symphonies. Upcoming publications include "Three Mediterranean Landscapes" for Flute Choir and Percussion from Falls House Press (January 2009). The "Quintet for Winds" and "Stick Figures" for Two Clarinets and Two Bassoons are published by Trevco Music.
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