Glenn Korff School of Music Alumnus Adam Fieldson (B.M. 2010; M.M. 2013) won Third Prize and $7,500 in the 2015 Lotte Lenya Competition, sponsored by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.
This annual competition, created in 1998 honors the centenary of the birth of Lotte Lenya, a singer/actress and one of the foremost interpreters of the music of her husband, Kurt Weill. The competition recognizes talented young singers/actors who are dramatically and musically convincing in repertoire ranging from opera/operetta to contemporary Broadway scores, with a focus on the works of Weill. The Lotte Lenya Competition is a theater singing competition that emphasizes wide-ranging repertoire and the acting of songs and arias within a dramatic context.
“During his undergraduate and graduate study in the Glenn Korff School of Music, Adam Fieldson was recognized with many awards, beginning with his winning the first Friends of Opera Scholarship ever presented in the spring before he entered UNL as a freshman,” said Alisa Belflower, coordinator of musical theatre studies in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. “I am thrilled that Adam has won this internationally significant honor. His remarkable gifts for acting and singing on stage were destined to bring him this recognition and will surely bring more recognition in his promising future. Adam's last major performance at UNL was in the eponymous role of ‘Candide’ in UNL Opera's national-award winning production. After teaching Adam for more than seven years, I could not be more pleased for his celebrated success.”
Fieldson’s recent credits include performances as Nicely Nicely in “Guys and Dolls” and Galahad in “A Connecticut Yankee” at Ohio Light Opera Company; Eisenstein in “Die Fledermaus” at New York Opera Exchange and Jack in “Into the Woods” at Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. Other performances include his Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 as the tenor soloist in Schubert’s Mass in G presented by Manhattan Concert Productions.
Fieldson is the 2012 winner of the Musical Theatre division of the Hal Leonard Vocal Competition. He currently lives in New York City, but is planning a move to Minneapolis this summer.