{"id":723,"date":"2015-10-18T01:13:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T06:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/?page_id=723"},"modified":"2017-03-26T00:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T05:32:21","slug":"shea-williamson-soprano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/?page_id=723","title":{"rendered":"Shea Williamson, soprano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shea-williamson-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shea-williamson-web-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Praeclara soprano Shea Williamson\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shea-williamson-web-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shea-williamson-web-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shea-williamson-web.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shea Williamson<\/strong> is originally from Brinkley, Arkansas. She holds a Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City University<\/a>, along with a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ualr.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Arkansas at Little Rock<\/a>. She is one of Praeclara&#8217;s founding company members and a soprano section leader at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondpreslr.org\" target=\"_blank\">Second Presbyterian Church of Little Rock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Williamson\u00a0is a certified music teacher at Upper Elementary 5th Grade in Russellville, Arkansas; she also teaches private piano and voice. She was a member of the Young Americans, an international outreach program, where she toured England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany teaching grades K-12 about singing, dancing, and acting; but mostly how to express themselves through music.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, she was engaged as a member of the BASOTI, the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute, where she performed the role of Suor Genevieve in Puccini\u2019s <em>Suor Angelica<\/em>. Other favorite vocal credits includes the soprano soloist for John Rutter&#8217;s <em>Requiem<\/em>, Carl Orff&#8217;s <em>Carmina Burana<\/em> (Odette), Virgil Thompson\u2019s <em>Mother of Us All<\/em> (Lillian Russell), the title role in Respighi\u2019s <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, J. Strauss\u2019s <em>Die Fledermaus<\/em> (Adele), Purcell\u2019s <em>Dido and Aeneas<\/em> (Belinda), Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s <em>The Pirates of Penzance<\/em> (Mabel), and Sondheim\u2019s <em>Sweeney Todd<\/em> (Johanna).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Photo credit:\u00a0<\/strong>Headshot courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellyhicksphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Hicks Photography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shea Williamson is originally from Brinkley, Arkansas. She holds a Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from Oklahoma City University, along with a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is one of Praeclara&#8217;s founding company members and a soprano section\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/?page_id=723\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":695,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-723","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/723\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}