Jackson Jambalaya

Time to take a break from all things politics.  Ms. Deanna Tisdale will perform in a recital at Belhaven College Thursday night.  She is the daughter of Alice Tisdale and  the late Charles Tisdale. She just completed her studies as a classical Soprano at  the Boston Conservatory in Music Performance. The program and her bio are posted below.

Her bio states:

DeAnna Esther Marie Tisdale is currently pursuing a Graduate Performance Diploma in Vocal Performance from the Boston Conservatory. where Kathryn Wright is her vocal instructor.

Her aspiration is to make her own path as an opera singer. She has performed the role of the Forester’s Wife and covered the role of the Fox in Janacek’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen. She studied the role of Nannetta from Verdi’s Falstaff with the world-renowned Martina Arroyo Foundation’s Prelude to Performance program. She has also covered Santuzza from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has been in the chorus of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Puccini’s La Boheme with the University of Southern Mississippi and J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with the Mississippi Opera.

She sang with the Mississippi Opera in their 2009-2010 Champagne season as a soloist in The Best of Opera Choruses and as a chorus member in Die Fledermaus. During the summer of 2009, she traveled to Rome where she took part in the Opera Festival di Roma, a one-month school to train rising opera singers.

She won 1st place in a regional NATS competition in November 2011. In July 2011, she
performed in Los Angeles, California at the 102nd Annual NAACP Convention during the Spingarn Awards.

She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music/Vocal Performance from Tougaloo College and her Master of Music (M.M.) degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi,, where she graduated both magna cum laude. She is also continuing the legacy of her father Charles Tisdale and the work that he started with the Jackson Advocate newspaper in Jackson, MS. She is the Associate Publisher of the world-renowned publication.