Pamela Dodson
PAMELA DODSON, LYRIC SOPRANO grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina where she began singing in church at a very young age. She began her formal training in Meredith College Community School of Music. After moving to Greenville, South Carolina she received her bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance from Bob Jones University where she studied with Pam Dunbar. During college, Pamela developed a deep love for opera while performing roles in Samson et Dalila, The Old Maid and the Thief, as well as her favorite role Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. Pamela continued her studies at Valor Music Conservatory where she studied under professional singers Dominque Labelle and Bradley Williams as well as vocal coaching and performance with the talented Anthony di Bonaventura.
Pamela has performed and taught vocal classes periodically at the Greenville Theater and South Carolina Children’s Theater. She has also been the Production Assistant and Music Director for several of their shows.
Choral singing has always been a major part of Pamela’s life. In college, she performed with the Chorale and Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Warren Cook. For the past twelve years, she has had the pleasure of singing with the Greenville Chorale and Herring Chamber Ensemble under Bingham Vick Jr. A few of the highlights have been singing Carmina Burana at the Brevard Music Center, premiering Dan Forrest’s Lux: The Dawn from on High, and the most exciting performance of her career, the Herring Ensemble singing with Andrea Bocelli in the 30th Anniversary Concert Tour in Greenville.
For fourteen years Pamela has devoted her time to teaching. Her greatest joy in life is sharing her great love of singing with all ages. She teaches private voice, piano and Mini Maestro classes for music exploration and fundamentals to young students. For the last five years, she has volunteered at a local elementary school with vocal coaching and rehearsal assistance for the beginning and upper-level choirs and ministers faithfully as a vocalist at Faith Baptist Church in Taylors.
Salleigh Harvey
Salleigh Harvey, mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and collaborative pianist, is a native of Upstate South Carolina. She attended the Fine Arts Center and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, SC.
Ms. Harvey received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Furman University, where she studied with Dr. Grant Knox. While at Furman, she was an active member of the Furman Singers and Furman Chamber Singers, as well as the Sarah Reese Lyric Theatre. Her roles at Furman included the Baker’s Wife in Sondheim’s Into the Woods and the Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
She earned her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where she studied with Kenneth Shaw. Roles with CCM Opera include Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina, and the title role in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.
While at CCM, Ms. Harvey was a young artist at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, where she covered the role of the Old Baroness in Barber’s Vanessa. She also performed in a workshop of Carlos Simon’s new opera In the Rush with Cincinnati Opera as a member of the ensemble.
After completing her master’s degree, Ms. Harvey moved to Boulder, Colorado, where she served as a member of the opera department and as a collaborative pianist at the University of Colorado Boulder. She coached freshman undergraduates in the voice and musical theatre departments. While at CU, she was a member of the Opera Theatre Singers, performed the role of Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel with Eklund Opera, and sang the role of Leocadia Diaz in a workshop with Mark Adamo on his new opera Sarah in the Theatre.
Currently, Ms. Harvey teaches voice and piano lessons through Pecknel Music Company. She also frequently collaborates with school choirs in the Upstate as a collaborative pianist. Ms. Harvey is a member of the St. Cecilia Choir at Prince of Peace Catholic Church and Chicora Voices, a professional choral ensemble in Greenville, SC.
TJ Turner
Dr. T. J. Turner, tenor, was named one of Memphis’s Top 20 Under 35 in 2023. He received positive reviews of his “solid performances” in his professional debut as The Doctor in The Handmaid’s Tale with GLOW Lyric Theatre: Opera Wire described his “crystalline high tenor” as “delightful to listen to.” Dr. Turner performed in Kristin Chenoweth’s My Love Letter to Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York, NY. Notable roles include Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Enoch Snow in Carousel, the Baker in Into the Woods, the title roles in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Bizet’s Le docteur miracle, Sam in Susannah, and Carlo in the American premiere of Judith Weir’s Armida. Equally at home on the concert stage, Dr. Turner has been featured as a soloist in performances with Converse University, Limestone University, the Greenville Chorale, and the Herring Chamber Ensemble this season. He has also performed with international stars Andrea Bocelli on tour and Renée Fleming in concert for events with Opera Carolina and Opera Memphis. Dr. Turner earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance and Opera Stage Directing at the University of Memphis, where he received the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music Graduate Document Award for his dissertation research, titled The New Messiah: A Neo-Baroque Approach to Ornamentation in the Performance of Paul Ayres’s Messyah. He holds degrees from the University of South Carolina and Furman University and has presented guest lectures and master classes at Clemson University, Furman University, and Georgia College. Dr. Turner is currently Lecturer of Music at Lander University and Teacher of Voice and Piano at the Lawson Academy of the Arts at Converse University. He accepts motivated students through his studio, Upstate Voice Lessons. www.toddjaredturner.com
Craig Price
Bass-Baritone Craig Philip Price, a native of South Carolina, holds degrees in Voice Performance from Furman University and Manhattan School of Music, as well as a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of South Carolina. He has been seen with opera companies across the United States including Central City Opera, Opera Saratoga, FBN Productions, Kentucky Opera, the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, and Charlottesville Opera. In concert, he has sung with the Greenville Chorale, the Herring Chamber Ensemble, Carolina Master Chorale, the Florence Masterworks Choir, the Columbia Choral Society, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, the Owensboro Symphony, the South Carolina Philharmonic and Varna International. He is also a frequent recitalist including his performance which launched the Bach Ascending concert series in Savannah, Georgia in early 2020. Other notable past performances include performing the ‘Bird’ in the world premiere performance of Seymour Barab’s Everyone Has to be Free and singing the part of ‘Christ’ in the John Stainer Crucifixion at the famed St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave in New York. He was honored to take part in celebrating the career of legendary American composer Carlisle Floyd in 2011 as a guest performer for his induction into South Carolina’s State Hall of Fame. He currently resides in Greenville, SC where he teaches on the voice faculty at Furman University, is the Director of Marketing for the Greenville Chorale, and a member of the music faculty at Senior Action Greenville.
