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Tenor Timothy W. Sparks, a North Carolina native, has appeared with The Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Operafestival di Roma, The Opera Company of North Carolina, The Greensboro Opera Company, The Triangle Opera, The National Opera Company (A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute), The Brevard Music Center, Capital Opera Raleigh, and The Durham Savoyards, Limited. His representative operatic roles include Rodolfo, Nemorino, Don Ottavio, Jaquino, Alfred, Don Basilio, Goro, Remendado, Spoletta, Borsa, Kaspar, Ralph Rackstraw, and Enoch Snow. With a commitment to contemporary music, Mr. Sparks has participated in the premiere of several new stage works by Joel Feigin, Benton Hess, and Tom Lohr. As a part of The Opera Company of North Carolina’s 2002 performances of Starbird a children’s opera by Henry Mollicone, the production was videotaped and rebroadcast on PBS in April of 2005. In October of 2005, Mr. Sparks performed the role of Sebastian in Long Leaf Opera’s world premiere production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, by Joel Feigin. In October of 2006, Mr. Sparks sang the role of Anatol in Long Leaf Opera’s production of Vanessa by Samuel Barber.
In concert, Mr. Sparks has appeared with the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, The Canton Symphony Orchestra, The Statesboro-Georgia Southern Symphony, The North Carolina Symphony, The Breckenridge Music Institute and Festival, The University of Notre Dame, The Duke Artists Concert Series, The Smedes Parlor Concert Series at St. Mary's School, The North Carolina Bach Festival, The North Carolina Master Chorale, The Concert Singers of Cary, The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Community Chorus, The Choral Society of Greensboro, The Greensboro Oratorio Society, The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, The Tar River Orchestra and Chorus, The Coastal Carolina Community Chorus, and The Hillyer Community Chorus. Mr. Sparks has performed the tenor solos in many oratorio and concert works by Bach, Beethoven, Britten, Handel, Hayden, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Alice Parker, Puccini, Respighi, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, and Schubert. Equally comfortable in operatic roles, oratorio, or as a recitalist, Mr. Sparks is active as a soloist throughout North Carolina and the United States, with representation by Sonia Lewis of RCAM Artist Management. In April of 2006, Mr. Sparks returned to Ohio as the tenor soloist for the Canton Symphony Orchestra’s 25th Anniversary celebration performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Mr. Sparks received his BM in Vocal Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MM with the Performer's Certificate in Voice from the Eastman School of Music. He is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. Mr. Sparks currently serves as an Instructor of Voice and Diction at UNC-Chapel Hill and was an Instructor of Voice at Meredith College for ten years. Furthermore, Mr. Sparks is an active adjudicator, a member of N.A.T.S., having served as a state district officer and as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Governor (2003-2005). His teachers include Joel R. Adams, Fredric Moses, Dr. Terry Rhodes, and John Maloy. Mr. Sparks lives in Raleigh, N.C. with his wife Amy, and two sons, Jason and Dylan.
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