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Jonita Lattimore is an American operatic soprano and a faculty member of Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. She is a lyric soprano from Chicago's South Side who has performed a wide range of operatic roles, as well as oratorio performances with major orchestras both internationally and domestically. Lattimore performed with the Chicago Children's Choir and trained both voice and instruments as a youth. She obtained a vocal scholarship to the Eastman School of Music and obtained subsequent graduate training at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She then trained in two developmental artist programs: Houston Grand Opera's Opera Studio and Lyric Opera of Chicago's Center for American Artists. Domestic highlights include having performed as part of the Grant Park Music Festival's celebration of the grand opening night at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion and with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra in their first performance at their current home, Hatch Memorial Shell. Her first decade as a touring professional saw her become one of, if not, the leading operatic soprano in Chicago: she not only opened the city's new outdoor performing venue in 2004, but also was the choice as the soprano to perform in the 2009 city-wide celebration of the centennial of the 1909 Plan of Chicago and has been scheduled for yearly appearances at the Grant Park Music Festival. Her international performances have included engagements at the Opéra Bastille and the Edinburgh Festival. She has performed with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, Northern Israel Symphony, Opole Philharmonic, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Calgary Philharmonic and Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico. ==Personal== Born and raised in Chicago, Lattimore began taking piano lessons at age three.〔 She also played the trumpet.〔 She performed with the Chicago Children's Choir as a youth and was a frequent soloist.〔 She took piano lessons in Oak Park, Illinois from Angela Wright.〔 She was raised in the Pill Hill neighborhood of Chicago's South Side.〔 Lattimore attended Kenwood Academy in the Kenwood community area, which is also on the South Side. Upon graduation in 1987,〔 she attended The University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music on the William Warfield scholarship, a vocal scholarship named after her mentor, William Warfield.〔〔 She pursued graduate studies at the University of Illinois. Lattimore is from a family of musicians: she has a Rhythm and blues and jazz musician younger brother named Alex, a father who performed in a vocal quartet, aunts who sang (one professionally), a music teacher for a grandmother and another grandmother who was a singer and violinist.〔 Her paternal grandmother lived with her and had taught music and math at Piney Woods Country Life School where she took a music group on regular national tours.〔 Lattimore has a daughter Joyelle, who was age five in December 2008.〔 Lattimore was the soprano soloist in Robert Avalon's 1998 Sextet de Julia de Burgos.〔〔 Lattimore's father, Joseph, was a recurring contributor to the oral history musings of Studs Terkel. Lattimore was an insurance salesman whose thoughts were depicted in Terkels works such as ''Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do'' and ''Race: What Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession''. His interviews with Terkel that were incorporated in these works continue to be available to the public.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Recordings From Race )〕 Lattimore has earned numerous awards, including honors from the Birgit Nilsson Competition, the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, the Sullivan and George London Foundations, and Opera Index, Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jonita Lattimore ) 〕 In 1999 at age 29, she was named by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' in their Chicago's arts and entertainment scene 30 under 30 series.〔 The following year, they named her as one of the 25 most intriguing Chicagoans. Lattimore teaches at Roosevelt University's The Music Conservatory of Chicago College of Performing Arts.〔 She has been profiled on ''Artbeat Chicago'', an arts television program on WTTW, which is Chicago's Public Broadcast Service affiliate in an episode entitled "Home Grown Diva", and WTTW also featured her on ''Opera Philes'', a program of favorite opera arias and ensembles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jonita Lattimore, soprano )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonita Lattimore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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