The American soprano and music teacher, Carolene Lung Winter, obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Voice and Piano; and her Master of Music degree in in Vocal Performance from California State University, Fresno. She has also studied at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria.
At the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, Carolene Winter performed to critical acclaim in their public orchestral/opera series. Her vocal and dramatic abilities have included performances at The Barnes at Wolf Trap, Cleveland Opera, Ohio Light Opera, West Bay Opera in California, Prince George’s Civic Opera and Annapolis Opera. Her operatic repertoire includes the roles of Gilda in Rigoletto, Musetta in La Boheme, Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Adele and Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Euridice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. Her concert and oratorio performances have included appearances with the Washington Bach Consort, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chesapeake Youth Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic and Annapolis Chorale and Annapolis Chamber Orchestra.
Carolene Winter has been Organist and Choir Director at Cape St. Claire United Methodist Church in Annapolis, Maryland (1982-1985); Accompanist, Assistant to the Director of Annapolis Chorale in in Annapolis, Maryland (1990-2005); Lecturer in Music: Voice at Washington College (August 2015-December 2021); and Parish Organist at St. Anne’s Episcopal Parish in Annapolis, Maryland (since 1997). She currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland. |