Opera- Maria Callas, Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, Diana Damrau, Mirella Freni, Kiri te Kanawa, Renata Tebalid, Renata Scotto, Jessye Norman, Elizabeth Futral,Barbara Hendricks, Teresa Berganza, Anna Moffo, Reri Grist, Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Margaret Price, Marian Anderson, Bernarda Fink, Alfredo Kraus, Deborah Voigt,Regine Crepsin, Jan DeGaetani, Janet Baker, Inga Nielsen, Giulietta Simionato, Lucille Beer, Joan Sutherland, Rinat Shaham, Marilyn Horne, Sumi Jo, Natalie Dessay, Kathleen Battle, Jennifer Larmore,Lucia Popp,Anne Sofie von Otter,Cheryl Studer, Cecilia Bartoli, Tammy Jenkins, Kirstin Chavez, Denyce Graves, Beverly Sills, Virginia Zeani,Placido Domingo, Enrico Caruso, Franco Corelli, Fritz Wunderlich, Bryn Terfel, Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, Birgit Nilsson, Veronique Gens,Aprile Millo,Giuseppe Giacomini, Frederica von Stade, Elly Ameling, Vivica Genaux, Susan Patterson, Evelyn Ramirez,Barbara Bonney, Grace Bumbry, Victoria de los Angeles, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Susan Graham, Hei-Kyung Hong, Susanne Mentzer, Christine Goerke, Patrizia Biccirè, Laura Aikin, Joshua Hopkins, Toby Spence, Christine Brandes, Susan Platts, Christine Brewer, Olga Guryakova, Soile Isokoski, Nicolai Gedda, Marijana Mijanovic, Charlotte Hellekant, Magdalena Kozena, Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, Nancy Maultsby, Irina Mishura, Andreas Scholl, Edita Gruberova, Marcos Vigil, Richard Croft, Eric Cutler, Julian Gavin, Paul Groves, Kurt Moll, Thomas Moser, Juline Barol-Gilmore, Rolando Villazon, Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Joseph Calleja, Ana Maria Martinez, Karita Mattila, Ghena Dimitrova, Camilla Tilling, Lillian Watson, Patricia Bardon, Leontina Vaduva, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Larissa Diadkova, Elina Garanca, Monica Groop, Juan Diego Florez, Russell Braun, Olaf Bar, Hakan Hagergard, Thomas Hampson, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Alan Opie, Brett Polegato, Andreas Schmidt, William Shimell Enzo Capuano, Stephen Milling, Hildegard Behrens, Bodil Arnesen, Rene Pape, Samual Ramey, Franz-Josef Selig, Francisco Araiza, Maria Malibran, June Anderson, Barry McDaniel, Fiorenza Cossotto, Peter Anders, Kate Royal, Martyn Hill, Laura Vlasak Nolen, Madeline Bender, Juline Barol-Gilmore, Heather Dials, Mariella Devia, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini, Mado Robin, Eva Turner, John McCormack, Emmy Destinn, Johanna Gadski, Friedrich Schorr, Renato Zanelli, Lotte Lehmann, Beniamino Gigli, Conchita Supervia, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Tauber, Kirsten Flagstad, Lauritz Melchior, Elena Souliotis, Leyla Gencer, Edda Moser, Jane Eaglen, Susan Chilcott, Eileen Farrell, Shirley Verrett, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Elaine Alvarez, Amber Wagner, Ani Maldjian, Amy Shoremount-Obra, Elizabeth Caballero, Laurence Malherbe, Erin Wood, Erin Wall, Iwona Sobotka
Musicals...I LOVE musicals. I'd have to say that Julie Andrews and Kristen Chenoweth rock my socks, as far as musicals go.
Bands- beatles, bush, cure, green day, ramones, depeche mode,deathcab for cutie, bright eyes,a-ha, duran duran, maroon 5, darkness, system of a down, the killers, franz ferdinand, staind, no doubt, reel big fish, jet, save ferris, tenacious d, saves the day, dropkick murphys, pennywise, yellowcard, taking back sunday, breaking benjamin, default, U2, tons more I can't think of...
Female Singers- Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin, Amy Lee, Mariah Carey, Michelle Branch, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, Faith Hill, Madonna, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Lena Horne, Etta James, Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Julie Andrews, Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, Patsy Cline, Eartha Kitt, Edith Piaff, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Dorris Day
Male Singers- Stevie Wonder, Josh Groban, Usher, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Damien Rice, Ben Harper, Elliott Smith, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Weird Al Yankovic, Wesley Willis, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin
Instrumentalists-
Piano- Vladimir Horowitz, Victor Borge, Thelonius Monk, Glenn Gould, Count Basie, Ray Charles
Violin- Jascha Heifetz, Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Midori
Cello- Yo-Yo Ma, Pablo Casalas
Trumpet- Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval, Maurice Andre, Rafael Mendez, Mark Pender, Louis Prima, Doc Severinsen
Sax- John Coltrane, Charlie Parker
String Bass- Charles Mingus, Victor Wooten
Clarinet- Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw
Trombone- Glenn Miller
Fave Composers: Bach, Bartok, Barber, Beethoven, Bellini, Berlioz, Bernstein, Bizet, Brahms, Bruch, Chausson, Chopin, Corelli, Couperin, Debussy, Delibes, Donizetti, Dvorak, de Falla, Ellington, Faure, Gershwin, Gluck, Gounod, Granados, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Holst, Joplin, Liszt, Mahler, Mascagni, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Offenbach, Orff, Paganini, Poulenc, Prokofieff, Pucinni, Purcell, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Scarlatti's, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich, Smetana, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Telemann, Verdi, Villa-Lobos, Vivaldi, Wagner, von Weber, Wolf
Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Sophia Sesha Grieb graduated, in May 2009, with her Undergraduate Degree in Voice Performance from New Mexico State University. Sophia grew up in El Paso, Texas and has wanted to be a professional singer, for as long as she can remember.
Her first public performance was as Dorothy in her 1st grade class's production of the "Wizard of Oz" for the school talent show. Since then, Sophia has sung for various school and community events and has won many talent shows and vocal competitions, including Texas U.I.L. Solo and Ensemble, TMEA All-State Choir, and NATS.
In the 6th grade, Sophia joined her first choir. She has performed in various choirs, ever since, including the New Mexico State University Choirs, TMEA All-State Choir, and the Bruce Nehring Consort. Being in choirs has taken her to Santa Fe, New Mexico to perform the Brahms "Deutsches Requiem" with the Santa Fe Symphony, to San Antonio, Texas to perform with TMEA All-State Choirs, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and to Washington D.C. where she performed in the National Cathedral and the National Basilica. Most recently, she traveled with the NMSU Choirs to Austria, where she sang a solo in the beautiful Karlskirche in Vienna, among several other cathedrals in Austria. With choirs, she has performed other various solos including the soprano solos in Mozart's "Vesperae Solennes de Confessore", John Rutter's "Gloria", Vivaldi's "Magnificat", Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", and Ravel's "Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis."
Sophia's main interest, however, is in opera. She began studying, classically, when she came to New Mexico State. Sophia has studied with three amazing voice teachers to whom she is extremely grateful: Soprano, Dr. Martha Rowe (2004-2007), Heldentenor, Andrew Zimmerman (Jan. 2007-Dec. 2008), and Mezzo-soprano, Eike Gunnarson (September 2008- Present). She has also had the opportunities to work with soprano, Tammy Jenkins, soprano, Andrea Matthews, soprano, Li "Lily" Zhang, mezzo-soprano, Kirstin Chavez, baritone, Weston Hurt, tenor, Alex Richardson, mezzo-soprano, Elena Armijo, soprano, Dr. Deanna Murray, baritone, Jeffrey Snider, and soprano, Jane Eaglen. Sophia made her operatic debut in 2002, in the chorus of Dona Ana Lyric Opera's production of "Don Giovanni". In 2004, she had her first major role with D.A.L.O. as the title role of Bastienne in Mozart's "Bastien und Bastienne." She has since had the roles of Valencienne in Lehar's "The Merry Widow" in Spring 2006 and Hansel in Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" in Spring 2007. In addition to performing these full operas, she has performed scenes from "Cosi fan tutte" and "Die Zauberflöte" as the characters Fiordiligi and First Lady, respectively.
She is known for her large vocal range, her lyricism, power, and coloratura alike, her ability to perform anything from lyric/dramatic coloratura and lyric pieces to spinto soprano and lyric mezzo-soprano selections, and her natural stage presence and passion.
In addition to classical music, Sophia loves to sing pop, r & b, gospel, jazz, rock, broadway, and country music and can often be found at local bars partaking in karaoke or on stage with NMSU's Gospel Choir. She also enjoys playing piano, violin, and viola and composing pieces of her own, from time to time.
After obtaining her Master's degree, she hopes to participate in various competitions, festivals, and training programs and, finally, begin her professional career.
MY DEAR and LOVELY FRIEND SOPHIA SESHA: I WISH YOU HAVE A HAPPY YEAR 2010 ABSOLUTELY! I WILL BE AWAY UNTIL 10TH. I LOVE MY FRIENDS VERY MUCH! WITH ALL MY LOVE OF THE HEART and SOUL, AMOROUSLY and FRATERNALLY, I AM, GUILHERME DE ABREU CORREIA (MADEIRA ISLANDS - PORTUGAL) imikimi - Customize Your World!
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Wishing you a bright New Year
Because you're special.
A year where your troubles are all behind you;
Where many good things come your way...
And most of all,
A year that brings you comfort,
A renewed spirit
And lasting happiness.
I've always felt that the artist does have an uncompromising commitment to others, with philanthropy and socially. That among the shades of joys and sorrows, weaknesses and indifference, abandonment and loneliness of life uncertain, the artist is the one who first feel the flavor of the pain of his people, his people. The popular singer and troubadour traveled from village to village, from city to city from place to place, entertaining and telling stories of life, living newspaper which transmitted the news to his people. Delivering comfort and joy to the humble and simple people. It was becoming a major player among his people.
Throughout my land I have seen so much pain hardships and sorrows as happens in war and this disease terrifies me I eat the heart beyond my reason view that poverty alone with admirable certainty continue sowing pain
I have the solution to much despair but I do my plowing with my song and my song with this meditation on pain of my people I want to make a present to serve as consolation as coming from heaven for everyone present.
CLAUDIO GONZÁLEZ MALDONADO With the deepest respect and admiration
MY DEAR & LOVELY FRIEND SOPHIA SESHA: I WISH A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! WITH ALL MY LOVE OF THE HEART & SOUL, AMOROUSLY & FRATERNALLY, I AM, GUILHERME DE ABREU CORREIA (MADEIRA ISLANDS - PORTUGAL)
Wishing you Sophia a wonderful season
filled with heavenly peace
and the warmth of His presence in your heart and home
as you celebrate this holiday season.
