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  Mezzo soprano Lester Senter has appeared with leading opera companies, festivals and symphonies across America as well as abroad, including Spoleto, USA, Glimmerglass, Des Moines, Dallas, New Orleans, Denver, Milwaukee, Sarasota, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Birmingham, Mobile, Amarillo, Shreveport, Jackson, Mississippi, Guadalajara, Mexico and Dublin, Ireland. Miss Senter’s vocal career was launched with three Rossini heroines: Cenerentola, Isabella and Rosina, and has expanded to over 50 roles including Carmen, Hansel, Suzuki (Butterfly), Dorabella (Cosi), Niklausse (Hoffman), Orlovsky (Fledermaus), the Composer (Ariadne), the Old Lady (Candide), the Mother (Amahl), Maddalena (Rigoletto) to mention a few. Works have been written for her by leading composers Judith Zaimont, Lee Hoiby, Luigi Zanninelli, Michael Cave, Randolph Bass and Colman Pearce. “The Memory is a Living Thing,” one of her four recordings, is based on the writings of Eudora Welty. In addition she has appeared on educational television productions in Iowa and Mississippi. Of her New York debut, the New York Times critic wrote that she “performed superbly.” Premiere performances include The Shoe Bird by Sam Jones, text by Eudora Welty, with the Mississippi Boys Choir and Orchestra, as well as “Virgie Rainey,” (also based on the writings of Eudora Welty) commissioned from Judith Zaimont for Miss Senter. During the 2003-2004 season she is producing and starring in a production of Robinson and Friends which is going to the Smithsonian, the Philips gallery in Washington, DC, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis and the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, MS. for the Centennial Celebration of Mississippi artist, Walter Anderson. She will be guest soloist with the Mississippi, Shreveport and the University of Southern Mississippi Symphonies. Opera engagements of the season include Mama Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana with Opera Memphis and Zita in the Mississippi Opera production of Gianni Schicchi. Miss Senter will be a guest artist at Judith Zaimont’s faculty recital (University of Minnesota) and will also be doing a recital tour, Chansons d’Amour, with Dr. John Paul, noted pianist and harpsichordist and a concert in Dublin, Ireland with Maestro Colman Pearce. She has just completed her sixth CD Arranged by Colman Pearce of Lullabies. In 2001 Miss Senter was the recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts -- Artistic Achievement Award, presented by the Mississippi Arts Commission. In 2002 she played Orfeo in a specially mounted production of Orfeo Ed Euridice to commemorate her twenty-fifth anniversary with the Mississippi Opera. Anthony George, Artist Management of New York, represents Miss Senter. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE LULLABIES FOR MIMSY CLICK HERE FOR RECENT ARTICLES CLICK HERE FOR MUSIC SAMPLES CLICK HERE FOR HISTORY ON LULLABIES FOR MIMSY  |
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