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Singing up a storm™

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used for emphasizing that someone does something with all their energystrength, and ability.

“Soprano Nicole Van Every sang a lovely Violetta, with some truly exquisite vocal moments. She delivered exquisite pianississimos in the final death scene — demanding at any time, and especially so at the end of a performance.” [The Oklahoman] Dr. Van Every, known for her versatility and distinctive warm timbre, has been hailed as “beautiful and magnificent,” “excelling in every category,” and providing a “stunning feast for the ears” by critics in the United States. Extremely versatile, she has delivered stand-out performances in repertoire ranging from Verdi’s La traviata to Haydn’s Die Schöpfung to Orff’s Carmina Burana. Her most recent professional engagements include performances with Painted Sky Opera (Oklahoma), Brava! Opera Theatre (Oregon), the Richardson Symphony Orchestra (Texas), the Fort Smith Symphony (Arkansas), the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Canterbury Voices, the Zielinski Singers (Poland and the United States), the Classical Music Festival Orchestra (Austria), the ICMC (Greece), the Filharmonia Gorzówska (Poland), and the Norman Philharmonic (Oklahoma). She will return to Europe this summer for performances of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Legnica Chamber Orchestra (Poland), Symphony No. 9 at the historic Esterházy Palace Haydnsaal in Eisenstadt, Austria, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.

Dr. Van Every is the winner of the 2020 Berkeley BCCO Soloist award and will join them under the direction of Ming Luke for several performances in the Bay Area in the near future. She is also a winner of the 2019-2020 American Prize in Oratorio Performance, the first-place winner of the Classical Singer Magazine Summer Competition, and a District Winner and Regionals Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She has performed in concert for personalities such as former United States Attorney General John Ashcroft, The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore, and America’s Got Talent winner Neal E. Boyd. Equally at home in musical theater and jazz repertoire, she has performed lead roles in Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, The Fantasticks, Tintypes, and The Music Man.

Originally from Iowa, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Voice and Communications from Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Conducting from Truman State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice from The University of Oklahoma, where she studied with baritone Kim Josephson and mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.

In addition to music, Dr. Van Every has a true love for weather. She has traveled to China, Taiwan, and Mexico to assist in meteorological modernization projects for governmental weather bureaus. She has also taught courses for the OU School of Meteorology, one of the top meteorological programs in the world. When she is not singing, she is working for the National Weather Association in Norman, Oklahoma, working as a research associate in forensic meteorology, and chasing storms across the plains. Her dissertation, titled “The Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on the Singer,” is the first cohesive document of its kind to explore the effects of temperature, humidity, and pressure on the voice.

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