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Jackie Dunleavy Boyle, soprano, joined the NSPC Quartet in 1997 and began
directing the Junior Choir in 2001. She also performs extensively in the
Philadelphia area. Notable among her most recent engagements are as soprano
soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with organist Jeffrey Brillhart and the Mainland
Choral Society and performances of Handel’s Messiah with groups such as the
Reading Choral Society, where she was a winner of the 2004 Reading Choral
Society Young Artist Competition. The Reading Eagle praised her performance as
“outstanding” and her interpretation “enlightening, delicately nuanced and
lyrical.” Other recent concert engagements include Bach’s Ascension Oratorio and
multiple performances of Messiah and Vivaldi’s Gloria with ensembles in both
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
As a soloist, Jackie has also performed with the Lehigh Valley Gay Men’s Chorus
in several concerts (including Jay Kawarsky’s Prayers for Bobby and Jaques Brel
is Alive and Well and Living in Paris) and with orchestras such as the Lansdowne
Symphony and the Main Line Symphony; in choruses, with the New York
Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and the
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. As an ensemble performer, she has sung in
concert with Denyce Graves, Rod Stewart and Patti Labelle and has worked with
such conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christophe Eschenbach, Zdenek Macal, Stephen
Mercurio, and Joseph Flummerfelt. In 2003, she was a guest artist with J.J.
Penna in his “Visions and Visionaries” song festival in Princeton, NJ,
performing songs of Karol Szymanowski. As an ensemble performer, she has sung in
concert with Rod Stewart, Denyce Graves and Patti Labelle and has worked with
such conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Zdenek Mácal, Stephen
Mercurio, David Hayes and Joseph Flummerfelt.
Jackie received her M.M. in Voice Performance and Pedagogy in 2004 from
Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. She is a member of the American
Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), the National Association of Pastoral Musicians
(NPM) and a professional member of The Philadelphia Singers and Chorale. She is
a fulltime administrative staff member at Settlement Music School in
Philadelphia, PA.
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