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ACDA NATIONAL
Alphabetical Listing of Interest Sessions
2025 2025 ACDA National Conference March 18-22, 2025 Dallas, Texas
Concert Events (Purple Track, Orange Track, Both Tracks)
March 18-22 Dallas, TX

Jamez McCorkle, tenor, made headlines Headliner Concert
after his critically acclaimed appearance
in the title role of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-
winning opera Omar, which premiered at Thursday 8:00 pm - 9:45 pm
the Spoleto Festival in 2022. This season, Winspear Opera House
McCorkle makes two exciting role debuts as Florestan
Fidelio at the Washington National Opera, which he
also performs at Opéra national de Bordeaux; and as Friday 8:00 pm - 9:45 pm
Siegmund Die Walküre at Santa Fe Opera. On the
concert platform he makes a double appearance with Winspear Opera House
the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem and
Wagner’s Das Rheingold as Froh and with St. Louis Sym-
phony with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. A graduate of University of Pretoria (Tuks) Camerata
the Curtis Institute of Music, McCorkle is an alumnus
of the Mannes College, The New School for Music,
and Loyola University, New Orleans.

Lester Lynch has become recognized
for his charismatic portrayals and com-
manding voice as some of opera’s most
important characters, including in pieces
such as Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero, Buso-
ni’s Doktor Faust, and Nico Muhly’s The Glitch. Lynch
has sung on the world’s major stages, including Teatro
alla Scala, the Royal Opera House, Lyric Opera of The University of Pretoria (Tuks) Camerata has re-
Chicago, the Vienna Volksoper, and Houston Grand ceived many national and international accolades. The
Opera. Recent performances include Zemlinsky’s Sym- choir’s mission is to contribute toward the cultural de-
phonische Gesänge under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle velopment of the student body, enrich the lives of the
in Munich, Frankfurt, and at Carnegie Hall with the students and the broader community through choral
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He made his singing, and act as cultural ambassadors of the Univer-
film debut in 2021 as Merrivale in Gordon Getty’s new sity of Pretoria. The Camerata falls under the auspices
opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips. of the School of the Arts (Faculty of Humanities) and
consists of seventy-six full-time students from a variety
of study fields. In recent years, the choir has recorded
five critically acclaimed albums and is regularly invited
to conferences and symposia all over the world.

Michael Barrett is the conductor of the
University of Pretoria (Tuks) Camerata
and a senior lecturer in choral conduct-
ing in the department of music. In 2017
he was awarded a DM (Performing Arts)

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