ANGELA DAY

WHEELING — The 69th Annual Young Musicians Audition for 2022, sponsored by the Thursday Music Club of Wheeling, will be held at Vance Memorial Church, 905 National Road, Wheeling, on Friday, March 25, and Saturday, March 26.

Piano auditions will be held on Friday evening and piano and vocal auditions will be held on Saturday. They have 40 students enrolled in the audition process.

They will have an honors recital to take place in the Sanctuary at Vance Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m. April 10 where a reception will follow.

Those students receiving a Superior or Superior with Honors will participate in the Honors Recital. Visitors are welcome to attend the recital.

Judges for the event will be Gerald Lee, an accomplished pianist from West Liberty University. The vocal judge is Angela Day, who is also a very accomplished vocalist from West Liberty University.

About Angela Day

Day, adjunct professor of Voice at West Liberty University, holds both Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance from Louisiana State University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Vocal Performance from Mid-America Christian University. Her roles while attending LSU included the title role of Little Red Riding Hood, La suora infermiera in Suor Angelica, Sister Mathilde in Dialogues of the Carmelites,

Nora in Riders to the Sea, the Bat in L’enfant et les sortilege, and Mad Margaret in Ruddigore.

Day also appeared in LSU Opera Scenes as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Frasquita in Carmen, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Anne in A Little Night Music, as well as in the LSU Opera Outreach Program as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Papagena in The DMagic Flute, and Marie in La Fille du Regiment.

Furthermore, Day has served as the soprano soloist for both Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Magnificat with West Liberty University, as well as for Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai and Mozart’s Missa in C “Dominicus” at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Lafayette, LA. She continues to perform recitals and other various concerts in the Wheeling area. Day is also a frequent judge for local voice events, such as West Virginia Solo and Ensemble and Tri-State NATS competitions.

Gerald Lee is Professor of Piano at West Liberty University, where he has been a full-time faculty member since 2002. Solo recitals have been performed throughout the U.S. His 2010 solo recital for the Charleston Chamber Music Society was lauded by the Charleston Daily Mail as an “overwhelming musical success…Gerald Lee upheld the Charleston Chamber Music Society’s reputation for bringing top-rated artists to their Christ Church United Methodist venue.” Competition accolades include winning the 2009 Pittsburgh Concert Society Major Artist Auditions. Dr. Lee earned three piano performance degrees: B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, respectively.

About Gerald Lee

Lee is passionate about piano teaching. He has presented master classes at universities throughout the mid-Atlantic region. His students’ accomplishments include first place awards in the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Mountain State Collegiate Piano Competition, held by the West Virginia Music Teachers’ Association. Lee is a frequent adjudicator for piano competitions and festivals.