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The American bass, Evan Tiapula, spent the 2015-2016 summers composing at Walden School’s Young Musicians Program in New Hampshire and has continued studies in harmony and counterpoint with Dr. Derek David. A student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-college Program, he studied voice with Jimmy Kansau and composition with Arkadi Serper. He was the youngest, ever, member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and is studying choral conducting under Director Emeritus, Vance George. In summer 2017 he attended the Tanglewood Institute for voice. He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Voice from Oberlin Conservatory (2017-2023). Currently, he is pursuing a Master of Music degree in Voice at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (since 2024) under the instruction of Brian Horne.
With Oberlin Opera Theater, Evan Tiapula performed Count Robinson in Il matrimonio segreto, Martino in L’occasione fa il ladro, Superintendent Budd in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring, and Voltaire/Pangloss/Cacambo/Martin in Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Last fall (2024), he played Frank, the prison ward, in IU Jacobs Opera Theater’s Pop-Up Opera production of Die Fledermaus. In addition, he performed the role of Salvador Dalí and sang in the chorus for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay at the Jacobs School of Music on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, Indiana (November 2024). |
