{"id":2040,"date":"2023-08-25T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/?page_id=2040"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:55:40","slug":"elena-blyskal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/elena-blyskal\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Blyskal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adjunct Instructor of Music <\/span>
\n Applied Voice
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

NYC-based soprano and educator Elena Blyskal creates vivid and versatile performances\"\"
\nthat empower women in musical theatre and classical repertoire. Most recently, Elena
\nstarred as Rosalie Mullins in the Long Island premiere of School of Rock. She made her
\ndebut with The Princeton Festival in June 2019, covering the role of Madame Mao in
\nNixon in China. Other favorite characters performed range from Queen of the Night in
\nDie Zauberfl\u00f6te to Khloe\/Kourtney in the workshop of Dana Kaufman\u2019s Opera
\nKardashian, which were roles created for her.<\/p>\n

As an enthusiastic collaborator in art song and new music, Elena has premiered the music
\nof Julian Brijaldo, Dylan Findley, Peter Evans, Zachary Friedland, and Jared Hettrick,
\nwhose Hunger Games-themed cycle Songs on Fire was written expressly for her. She has
\nenjoyed appearances with Kaleidoscope MusArt, Hispanic-American Lyric Theatre, New
\nAmerican Voices, and the soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy. Elena premiered the
\npiano version of vocal-movement work Falling for Prepositions at Miami\u2019s Zenith Art &
\nFashion, where she closely collaborated with dancer-creator Claire Porter and composer
\nMary Ellen Childs. She currently sings with the eVoco Voice Collective and the Cathedral
\nof the Incarnation in Garden City, NY.<\/p>\n

Elena earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance at the
\nUniversity of Miami\u2019s Frost School of Music, where her research interests included
\nmindfulness practice in the collegiate vocal studio and cabaret song. She received her
\nMaster of Music in Vocal Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
\nIn addition to WCSU, Elena teaches musical theatre voice at Manhattanville College, as
\nwell as Vocal Pedagogy at CUNY Queens College. For more information, please visit
\nelenablyskal.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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