{"id":215468,"date":"2024-10-08T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/?p=215468"},"modified":"2024-10-08T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:58:14","slug":"award-winning-bass-baritone-cali-alum-shines-in-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/2024\/10\/08\/award-winning-bass-baritone-cali-alum-shines-in-national-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Bass-Baritone Cali Alum Shines in National Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a competitive pool of 286 applicants, Jason excelled through the audition process, advancing to the final round on May 4th. The Lotte Lenya Competition, founded by The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, recognizes exceptional talent in both acting and vocal performance. You can watch his award-winning performances through this\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cFf_c-loO4E\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DcFf_c-loO4E&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1728489136385000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ntjZ8Hx0jVHCCK9FrbOul\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jason, a bass-baritone, has earned national acclaim for his versatility across opera, concert, and musical theatre. He has performed at prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, The Atlanta Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Kentucky Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Ars Lyrica Houston. His recent accolades include winning Second Prize at the Lotte Lenya Competition and being named an NY District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2024-25 season, Jason will return to The Glimmerglass Festival, performing in\u00a0<em>Elizabeth Cree<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Pirates of Penzance<\/em>, and will also join The Atlanta Opera\u2019s Studio Artist Program for a second year, appearing in\u00a0<em>La boh\u00e8me<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Magic Flute<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Join us in celebrating Jason Zacher\u2019s impressive achievements and we are looking forward to his bright future!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jason-zacher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.jason-zacher.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1728489136385000&amp;usg=AOvVaw32Sfu0qkcEA77H66MUoR5L\">Visit Jason&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Cali Alum Jason Zacher (BM 2016 \u2013 Music Education) on Winning Second Place at the 2024 Lotte Lenya Competition!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":215470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cali-alumni-spotlight","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215471,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215468\/revisions\/215471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}