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Amaize
He began formal vocal training at the University of Texas at Austin under the tutelage of Michael Trimble and Jess Walters during which he obtained an interdisciplinary doctorate in Advertising, Marketing, and Educational Psychology. Ode holds a Diploma in Voice from Indiana University School of Music at Bloomington, where he spent four years studying under Camilla Williams and Margaret Harshaw. He also holds a post-graduate Certificate in Solo Song Recital (under the direction of Victor I. Yushmanov) from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Earlier, Ode had spent two years as a Fellow at Opera Music Theatre International (OMTI) in Newark, New Jersey, studying and performing under the artistic direction of Jerome Hines. His recital repertoire includes but is not limited to songs of Beethoven, Brahms, Elliot Carter, Glinka, Ives, Mussorgsky, Florence Price, Rakhmaninov, Shostakovich, Swanson, and Tchaikovsky. His international performing and recording experiences are augmented by his other professional teaching and research interests in Promoting and Marketing the Arts. This has been the case since 1986 upon completing his doctoral dissertation: "Inducing College Students' Opera Attendance: An Experimental Investigation of Affect." He
has served on the marketing and music faculties of various universities
in the United States, China, and in Russia where he frequently concertizes,
and has spent an academic year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, performing
and lecturing on marketing the arts, arts administration, and music
business management at the Moscow State Conservatory named after
P.I. Tchaikovsky. 1999: The Negro Speaks of Rivers and other Art Songs by African-American Composers. [MS-1011] http://www.msrcd.com/ode2/ode2.html 2001:
TEN SHAKESPEARE SONNETS and other Russian Romances by Kabalevsky,
Dargomyzhsky, Glinka, Malashkin, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Rubinstein,
Sheremetiev, and Sviridov. [MS-1042] http://www.msrcd.com/Ode3/Ode3.html 2004:
Amaize Sings Beethoven, Loewe, "Ode,
I'm inspired with your voice and even more, with your soul." |
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Amaize (Ode), a naturalized U.S. citizen, was born in 1953 in Nigeria.
While obtaining a professional Diploma in Art and Design at Yaba
College of Technology in Lagos, he was a member of the Steve Rhodes
Voices, performing in Africa, England, and Wales.