Alumni + Friends

Bryan Hymel, '01, is the First-Prize Winner of the 2008 Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation Competition, the 2008 Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition, and the 2008 Giulio Gari Foundation Competition. He is a fourth-year resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia where he has sung Boris in Kat’a Kabanova, Araquil in Massenet’s La Navarraise, Max in Der Freischütz, and Alfredo in La traviata. In the 2007-2008 season, he sang Luigi in Il tabarro and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi with New Orleans Opera, and a New York recital with Michelle DeYoung under the auspices of the George London Foundation (Hymel won the George London Award in 2007). In March of 2008, Mr. Hymel made his Carnegie Hall debut with Opera Orchestra of New York in a gala concert that also featured Renée Fleming, Marcello Giordani, and Dolora Zajick. Click here to read a recent article about Hymel.

See Bryan Hymel on YouTube singing "Hai ben ragione" from Il tabarro. 

 

Charles Anthony, ’52, is a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.  In 2004, he celebrated 50 years with the opera. Anthony has portrayed a vast number of characters during his celebrated career, including the Innkeeper in Der Rosenkavalier; Spoletta in Tosca; the Messenger in Aïda; Ulrich Eisslinger in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Simpleton in Boris Godunov;, Ernesto in Don Pasquale; the Sergeant in The Barber of Seville; and Roderigo in Othello, among others. Photograph by Sedge LeBlang, Charles Anthony as the Simpleton in Boris Godunov.

 

Tony Dagradi, ’86, is an associate professor of saxophone in the College of Music and Fine Arts at Loyola University New Orleans, where he’s worked since 1990.  Dagradi is a member of the award-winning jazz group Astral Project, which he’s toured with in the United States, Europe, and Japan.  He plays regularly with the New Orleans Saxophone Quartet and is the director of the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center’s Jazz Repertory Orchestra.

 

 Andree Carter, ’92, is a working artist and part-time faculty at the Art Institute of Seattle. In 2008, she was a part of a group exhibition at the Pacini Lubel Gallery called Color/Texture/Form at the Seattle University House. She also participated in an exhibition called Wild About Color in Issaquah, Wash. She held solo exhibitions in 2007 at the Heriard-Cimino Gallery in New Orleans called Intersections. She also held an exhibition at the Patricia Cameron Gallery in Seattle, Wash., called Deconstructing Happiness. To see more of Carter’s work, visit her website.

 

Stanton Moore, ’94, is band leader for Galactic, Moore and More, and Garage a Trois. Moore was a featured artist in Modern Drummer magazine in July 2008. He is also a contributing columnist for Drum! Magazine.  When he’s not on tour with Galactic, Moore stays very involved in education, teaching private lessons in New Orleans and on the road. Showing a rare versatility, he has appeared within the same year on albums with Heavy Metal Grammy nominees Corrosion of Conformity’s In the Arms of God, Irma Thomas’ After the Rain and Robert Walter’s Super Heavy Organ. In 2005, he launched a signature line of cymbals with Bosphorus Cymbals and a signature drum stick with the Vic Firth stick company.