Field, Tana

Title
Alumni Guest Lecturer in Music
Office:
Jenson-Noble 186
Phone:
+1.563.387.1209
Email:
Degree:
D.M.A., University of Cincinnati
Interests:
Voice
Mezzo-soprano Tana Field received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Luther College. Ms. Field earned a Master of Music in voice performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In 2007 she received the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in voice performance with an emphasis in operatic stage direction from the same institution. While at the University of Cincinnati, Ms. Field served as a university teaching assistant and as a faculty member in the preparatory department.

An active performer of oratorio, she has appeared as a featured soloist with the Cincinnati Baroque Ensemble, the Lebanon Symphony and Chorus, Musica Sacra of Cincinnati, the Northern Kentucky Community Chorus, the Wright State University Choruses, the Milwaukee Opera Theatre and the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy.

Ms. Field’s operatic roles include: The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Nancy in A Hand of Bridge, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, and Suor Zelatrice in Suor Angelica. She also created the role of Bluma Gebirtig in the world premiere of Joel Hoffman’s The Memory Game.

In 2004, Ms. Field was the winner of the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation’s Brena Hazzard and Sarah Eikenberry Voice awards. She was a finalist in the 2006 and 2007 Regional Artists Competitions of the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus.