Jacquelyn Culpepper

Jacquelyn Culpepper's lyric soprano voice has taken her across the United States, Europe and Asia. Highlights of her experience include 85 roles in opera and oratorio and four concert tours with American Voices in Europe. Culpepper's performances have taken her to prestigious concert venues such as Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Atlanta’s Symphony Hall in performances with the late Robert Shaw.

As an American Voices artist, she was a featured guest in 50th anniversary commemoration concerts for the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and Luxembourg as well as in performances for the US Embassy in Germany. She recently made her first appearances in Asia in nationally televised concerts broadcast from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. During this project she worked intensively with young Vietnamese singers from the Saigon Conservatory in musical preparations and staging of the first performances of Broadway in Vietnam.

Featured in three National Public Television specials in the United States, her broadcasts include 'An Evening with Cole Poter' and 'Salute to Masterpiece Theater' with Jean Marsh. Her appearances with orchestra in the US include, Charlotte Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Breckenridge Music Institute, Canton Ohio Symphony among many others.

A veteran voice teacher, she currently serves on the faculty of Davidson College, North Carolina as Artist Associate where she also leads the annual Voice Symposium for young professional singers.

Ms. Culpepper has been an American Voices artist since the founding of American Voices in 1993.

Programs Offered:

Grand Night of Singing
An American Christmas
Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein Tributes
A Night at the (American) Opera

Press Quotes:

"Little Show, Lots of Fun" - Miss Culpepper clearly brought great joy to the full auditorium with expressive, exciting singing and dizzying high notes. Her truly first class talents showed when she combined her talents as actress and entertainer."
Saarbruecker Zeitung

"The introverted as well as lively pieces were interpreted not only in perfect vocal quality but also with expressive gestures. An elegant person with a powerful voice, sensitively accompanied by John Ferguson."
Magdeburger Zeitung

From the American Voices Programs Web Site

Jacquelyn Culpepper Featured Soloist
In Broadway Tunes Performance

By Pat FitzGerald, Herald Lifestyles Writer
10 Feb 1994
The Herald (Rock Hill, SC)
Final, Page 4C
(Copyright 1994)

FORT MILL - Jacquelyn Culpepper has been everything from the Sandman in "Hansel and Gretel" to a vixen in "The Crucible," and now she will be a gang gal and an English street woman

Culpepper, a soprano who grew up near Asheville, N.C. is the featured soloist in the Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra concert Friday night in Fort Mill. She will sing selections from "West Side Story" and "My Fair Lady." Musical director is Albert E. Moehring.

The program is sponsored by the Fort Mill/Tega Cay Arts Association and the Fort Mill and Tega Cay chambers of commerce. The arts association requested a return of the philharmonic after its successful debut in Fort Mill last season. The 70-member orchestra, now in its fourth season, is a semi-professional company. Many of its members have non-musical vocations as day-time jobs. According to Moehring, his goal is to present classical music at movie ticket prices.

The concert will be followed by a Valentine dessert party at the Fort Mill Golf Club, where philharmonic members will entertain.

"It will be a nice addition to the evening," says Meredith Camann, association president. The dessert will have a cash bar and serve coffee and homemade desserts.

Culpepper grew up in a musical family in Waynesville, N.C., a "wonderful little colony of musicians and artists," she has said. She sang and played flute and piano, and family reunions always were around the piano.

She knew before seeing her first opera that opera was what she wanted to do, and received degrees in voice from Western Carolina University and Baylor University.

Culpepper now has more than 30 opera roles and many oratorios in her repertoire, and is a frequent guest artist with the N.C. and Charlotte Symphony orchestras. She has been a visiting artist at Central Piedmont Community College, and recently gave up her position as director of the Performing Arts Program at Gaston College to devote more time to performing.

Among her many performances outside the Carolinas are appearances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and the American Embassy in Bonn, Germany.

Culpepper Ancestry. Jacquelyn Culpepper (#2181) is the descendant of seven generations of Nash County, NC Culpeppers. She is the wife of Clem Huffman and the daughter of Harvey Andrew Culpepper, Jr., (1927-1972, NC).