Rachel Joselson
Associate Professor
Voice
Phone: (319) 335-1674
Office: 2084 VMB
rachel-joselson@uiowa.edu

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Rachel Joselson

Before joining the School of Music faculty in the fall of 1997, Rachel Joselson spent 13 years in Europe performing operatic roles while engaged at theaters in Darmstadt, Hamburg, Essen and Basel. As a guest she performed with opera companies and orchestras in Gars, Austria, Aachen, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Bonn, Braunschweig, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Madison, Essen, Brussels, Kiel, Gelsenkirchen, and St. Gallen.

For the 1995-96 season, she had her first engagement at the Metropolitan Opera, and was engaged by London's Covent Garden for their 1992 Japan tour of Don Giovanni.

Joselson began as a mezzo soprano singing such roles as Rosina, Dorabella, Cherubino, Adalgisa and Idamante before switching to soprano repertoire during her tenure at Hamburg. Her current roles include Leonore (Fidelio), Tosca, Butterfly, Mimi, Micaela, Melisande, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), and Eva (Meistersingers of Nuremberg). She was featured as Madame Euterpova in the 1998 recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's Help! Help! The Globolinks! under the musical direction of John DeMain, and her CD The Songs of Arthur Honegger and Jacques Leguerney with pianist Rene Lecuona was released in 2003 by Albany Records. Joselson was a featured soloist with the Utah Festival Opera during the summer of 2003, and debuted with New Rochelle Opera in the role of Tosca in 2006.

Ms. Joselson received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Rutgers University in May of 1999.

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