Voice professor Sequina DuBose will be a featured vocalist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, performing in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center’s Belk Theater on September 20. The concert is the culminating event of the annual Festival of India.
Conducted by Daniel Black, the program will celebrate music of Bollywood, with works by Indian composers A.R. Rahman, Reena Esmail and Kanniks Kannikeswaran.
DuBose, a lyric soprano, will perform with Indian vocalist Vidita Kanniks in Esmail’s “Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz (My Sister’s Voice),” a contemporary work for Western classical soprano and Hindustani classical singer.
“It’s a particularly interesting project because the piece brings Western and Hindustani classical vocal traditions into direct conversation, making it a wonderful fit with my broader performance and research interests in repertoire that bridges musical traditions and vocal styles,” DuBose said.
DuBose is associate professor of classical and contemporary voice in the Department of Music and coordinator of the Musical Theatre Certificate program. Her research centers on performance practice and pedagogy for 21st-century hybrid vocal literature, with particular emphasis on the intersection of classical music with contemporary commercial music, musical theatre, folk music traditions and music of the African diaspora.
An accomplished classical and crossover artist, DuBose maintains an active career spanning opera, concert work and musical theatre and has performed multiple times with Opera Carolina.
Her recording projects include the albums “Blurred Lines: 21st Century Hybrid Vocal Literature” (2022) and “Bonds Unsung,” a forthcoming recording of lesser-known works by Margaret Bonds.