Juilliard Series Continues March 5 With Performance by Ovaline Whitner

SALISBURY, MD---Soprano Ovaline M. Whitner, a graduate of the Juilliard School, appears in concert on Sunday, March 5, at 2 p.m., in the Wicomico Room of the Guerrieri University Center on the campus of Salisbury State University. Her performance, free and open to the public, is part of this spring's Juilliard Series at SSU.

While attending Juilliard, Whitner performed in operas such as "Treading in Paradise" (Nurse I), "Les Malhuers d'Orphée" (Eurydice) and "L'abandon d'Ariane" (Ariane). Her opera scenes work includes "Centrillon" (Cinderella), "Regina" (Alexandra), "Don Giovanni" (Donna Elvira), "Le Nozze di Figaro" (Contessa)and "Die Zauberflöte" (Pamina).

As a recitalist, Whitner has appeared in concert at the Robert Howell Brooks Center, Biltmore Estates, United Nations, Kroger Center, Greenville Peace Center, Morse Recital Hall, Paul Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall singing lieder and art songs. She has received numerous honors and awards including Source of New York Winner, SC Music Educator's Award, Sarina Grande Award and Has J. Heinz and Tatiana Troyanos Memorial Scholarship. Whitner is also co-founder and member of Heritage Quartet, whose voices reproduce the glorious sounds of the Negro spiritual.

For more information on Whitner's performance or a complete listing of cultural events at SSU this spring, please call the SSU Public Relations Office at 410-543-6030.