School of Music

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3581
Fax: (626) 969-7419
Email: cfedoruk@apu.edu
Office Location: Warren Music Center, Room 118
Office Hours: By appointment

Claire Fedoruk, soprano, completed her doctorate in early music performance at the University of Southern California. Fedoruk received her B.M. from Pacific Lutheran University and her M.M. from the Eastman School of Music. She has collaborated with Nicholas McGegan, Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, as well as early music specialists Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs, and Suzie LeBlanc. Summer music festivals have included Oberlin in Italy (Italy), Pacific Music Festival (Japan), the Vancouver Early Music Programme (Canada), and Festival Ensemble Stuttgart (Germany).

As an active concert and recording artist, Fedoruk can be heard on the forthcoming Daniel Vaiations (Nonesuch) of Steve Reich You Are Variations (Reich again - Nonesuch), the Grammy award winning LA Chamber Singers Capella’s Padilla: Sun of Justice and JAC Redford’s Evening Wind. She can also be heard as a soloist in the videogame soundtrack, Shaiya. An early music scholar and specialist, she enjoys collaborating with colleagues in the Concord Ensemble, Capella, and Los Angeles Master Chorale. Fedoruk has appeared as a featured soloist of Handel’s Messiah and J.S. Bach’s Weinachstoratorium with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Steve Reich’s Tehillim at Lincoln Center, and as a soloist under the baton of Grant Gershon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Helmuth Rilling.

Fedoruk is an assistant professor of music history at Azusa Pacific University, where she specializes in teaching modern and early music. She is a student of Janice McVeigh. Future projects include a position as voice faculty and soloist at several music festivals in Venezuela with Maria Guinand and Helmuth Rilling.

DMA, Early Music Historical Performance, University of Southern California, 2006
M.M., Vocal Performance and Literature, Eastman School of Music, 1999
B.M., Vocal Performance and Literature, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, 1997

Credentials/Certifications
American Guild of Musical Artists
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Screen Actor’s Guild

Performances
Soprano Soloist, NYC Celebrates Steve Reich You Are Variations, 2006

Soprano Soloist, Messiah composed by G.F Handel, Los Angeles Master Chorale

Soprano Soloist, El Nino (BAM) composed by John Adams, Brooklyn

Soprano Soloist, Daniel Variations composed by Steve Reich, Los Angeles, 2007

Soprano Soloist, Brief Eternity, Messages composed by McFerrin, Los Angeles

Presentations
Spirituality in Bach’s B Minor Mass, Azusa Pacific University, 2006

Medieval Complexity and Mensural Proportions of the Middle Ages: A Counterpoint to C.P. Snow’s 'The Two Cultures’, Oxford Round Table, England, 2007

Lasciatemi Morire! A Critical Edition of Four 17th Century Roman Cantatas, 2005

Amour Fou: A Critical Edition of Six 17th Century French Cantatas, 2006

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Industry Experience
Ensemble Artist and Studio Voice, License to Wed, 2007

Ensemble Artist and Studio Voice, Lady in the Water, 2006

Ensemble Artist and Studio Voice, Click, 2006

Ensemble Artist and Soloist of the Millenium Consort

Ensemble Artist and Soloist of the Concord Ensemble, 2004-present

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Grammy Award-Winning Ensemble Artist, 2007
Los Angeles Chamber Singers Capella-Padilla: Sun of Justice
USC Teaching Assistantship/Music History, 2000-03
Recipient of USC Music Scholarship, 1999-2000

Introduction to Graduate Music Program (GMUS 500)
Seminar in Music History I (GMUS 501)
Seminar in Music History II (GMUS 502)
Ancient, Renaissance, and World Music Literature (MUS 351)
Baroque, Classical, and Early Romantic Music Literature (MUS 352)
Late Romantic and 20^th Century Music Literature (MUS 455)