Carol Kimball Joins LLF Advisory Board

The Lotte Lehmann Foundation Board of Directors proudly announced today the unanimous election of Carol Kimball to the Board of Advisors of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation.

A passionate advocate for classical song, Carol Kimball is the author of Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature, a highly regarded reference and text that has become "the principal one-volume American source on the topic," and Interpreting the Songs of Jacques Leguerney: A Guide for Study and Performance (with Mary Dibbern and Patrick Choukroun). She has edited The French Song Anthology, Women Composers: A Heritage of Song, and Art Song in English: 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers, all publications of the Hal Leonard Corporation. Her writing also includes the Singer’s Edition opera anthologies and articles and reviews on opera and song in many professional journals, including The Opera Quarterly, The Opera Journal (National Opera Association), and The Journal of Singing (National Association of Teachers of Singing). She has served as past editor of The Journal of Singing and The Opera Journal.

Dr. Kimball has written liner notes for the following recordings: Four Composers-One Voice (cycles by Del Tredici, Hagen, Rorem, and Baley with the composers at the piano), Arsis Records; Le Premier matin du monde (works by Chausson, Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc, and Satie), Cambria Master Recordings; and (In)Habitation: Musical Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry, forthcoming in 2008 (newly commissioned works by Libby Larsen, Amanda Harberg, Lori Laitman, Tania Léon, Elisenda Fabregas, and Judith Cloud), Centaur Records.

As a performer, Carol Kimball earned a reputation as an expressive and versatile performer in concerts, opera, and musical theater. Recognized as a gifted recitalist, her imaginative programming and the unusual scope of her repertoire garnered critical praise. A specialist in French repertoire, Dr. Kimball has studied and coached with Pierre Bernac, Gerard Souzay, Martial Singher, Thomas Grubb, and Dalton Baldwin.

Carol Kimball is Professor of Voice and Vocal Literature and a Barrick Distinguished Scholar at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she has taught since 1972. For her accomplishments in and for the Arts, she was honored with the 1992 Nevada Governor’s Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts. She remains active teaching, presenting master classes and clinics, and writing.