Join the Distance Learning Team each month to connect your students with STE(A)M career professionals in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Hear from the experts how what students are learning in school today translates into career opportunities tomorrow.
The Liz Cass, Professional Opera Singer and Arts Entrepreneur, interview in the S.T.E. (A).M Careers Explorer Series provides teacher the oppportunity to connect and learn from our special S.T.E. (A).M Careers guest. This session provides teachers with :
- Pre, Featured, Follow Up and Extension teacher resources to complement the S.T.E. (A).M Careers Explorer interview
- Teacher resources are provided to encourage students to research Liz Cass's career and come ready to ask questions
- We provide TEKS connections for the Liz Cass's S.T.E. (A).M Careers Explorer interview
- We provide technology connection resources that correlate with Liz Cass's S.T.E. (A).M Careers Explorer interview
- This interview session come complete with Literature Connections providing reading extentions about Liz Cass's career
- Social-emotional components and resources are provided to pair with Liz Cass's S.T.E. (A).M Careers Explorer interview
This webinar series is FREE for Distance Learning Network subscribers.
Please contact the Distance Learning Team at distancelearning@esc13.txed.net to obtain the discount code before registering.
The workshop fee for non-members is $30
Career:
Professional Opera Singer and Arts Entrepreneur
Guest:
Bio:
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Exec. Director - Armstrong Comm. Music School
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Voice Teacher
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Founding Exec. Producer - LOLA
Liz Cass is a producer, educator, arts leader, and active operatic performer. Ms. Cass is the originator of the mezzo role in Graham Reynold’s opera, "Pancho Villa; From a Safe Distance" for which she garnered an Austin Critic’s Table Award for Best Singer. Other recent performance highlights: Mrs. Lowe and Dora in "The Manchurian Candidate" by Kevin Puts with Austin Opera, The Brahms Alto Rhapsody with Chorus Austin, mezzo soloist in Handel’s Messiah at the Teatro Nationale and Casa Santo Domingo in Guatemala and "Pancho Villa; From a Safe Distance" with PuSh Festival in Vancouver and the Prototype Festival in NYC.
Ms. Cass is a founder and the Executive Producer of the award-winning LOLA, Local Opera Local Artists and serves as the Executive Director of the Armstrong Community Music School. Ms. Cass is originating the role of Dinah LeFarge in LOLA’s "Lardo Weeping", by Peter Stopschinski and Terry Galloway.
Liz Cass is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music. She began studying with Inci Bashar at UMKC in 1997, and continues studying with her to this day.
