GALE FULLER

Gale Fuller, mezzo-soprano, is enjoying a career rich in concert, opera and oratorio. Hailed by audiences and critics alike for the sumptuousness of her singing, she was described by Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe as "a Rossini-like virtuoso with a voice of great beauty, individuality and interpretive range."

Ms. Fuller opened this season singing 15 performances of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream with the Boston Ballet. In November, she portrayed Sofia Ivanovna in Resurrection with the Boston Lyric Opera to glowing reviews. December brought several performances of the Messiah, in the Boston area and Danbury, CT; and a Vivaldi Gloria that her husband, conductor John Cice, directed with the Lawrence-based Choral Arts Society. Ms. Fuller was a winner in the International Contemporary Opera Competition, and under their auspices presented a recital in February at the Museum of Our National Heritage, and in March at Weill Recital Hall at New York's Carnegie Hall. The spring brings performances of Duruflé's Requiem with the Providence Singers in RI, recitals with the Rockport Lieder Society, and an Opera Gala with Alabama Opera as well as her upcoming appearance in Luis Bacalov's Misa Tango with the Cambridge Community Chorus in May. The summer brings performances of Verdi's Requiem at Gordon College and at Harvard University. In December, she will travel to Japan for several performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and a recital tour.

Ms. Fuller has performed with many companies throughout the United States including San Diego Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Sacramento Opera, Opera Syracuse, Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Philharmonic, Opera Alabama, Lake George Music Festival, the Milwaukee Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Connecticut, the Boston Ballet, Binghamton Philharmonic, and the New England String Ensemble. Ms. Fuller also made her Carnegie Hall debut recently in Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Boston Philharmonic under the baton of Benjamin Zander. She is a frequent artist with many choral and orchestral organizations. Recent engagements include several critically acclaimed performances of Verdi's Requiem, Dvorak's Requiem, Elgar's Sea Pictures, Ravel's Scheherezade, Mahler's Songs of the Wayfarer, Vaughan Williams' Hodie, Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus as well as performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 15 of them with the Boston Ballet.

She holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, and is a professor of voice at Gordon College. She is a winner of the Liederkranz competition and has been named by Musical America as an outstanding artist.

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