Music Department Faculty
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Mary Logan-Hastings, D.M.A. Associate Professor Email: mologhas@iup.edu Phone: 724-357-3010 Office Hours: Monday: 2:30-3:30 Wednesday: 2:00-3:00 Friday: 10:30- 1:30 |
Voice Area Coordinator
Soprano Mary Logan Hastings is currently an
Associate Professor of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She
has had an extensive career in opera which has taken her from America
to European Houses such as the Nationaltheater Mannheim,
where she was engaged as the Coloratura Soprano, to the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
Deutsche
Oper am Rhein, Städische
Bühnen Frankfurt am Main, Staatstheater Stuttgart,
Opera Voor
Vlaanderen, Théâter
du Capitole, and Théâter
Basel. She regularly performed leading roles such as "Zerbinetta" in Ariadne auf Naxos, "Sophie" in Der Rosenkavalier, "Gilda" in Rigoletto, "Musetta" in La Bohème, "Amina" in La Sonnambula, and "Die Königin der Nacht" in Die Zauberflöte. Dr. Hastings'
solo concert work includes appearances with the Berliner Philharmonische
under the baton of Christoph von
Dohnányi, and performances with, Michael
Gielen, Michel Plasson, Daniel Barenboim,
Donald
Runnicles, Jean
Pierre Ponelle, Robert Shaw, and
Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau, among others. Included in her concert
repertoire as soprano soloist are The
Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, Brahms' Requiem, Mahler's 8th Symphony, his 4th Symphony, and his Rückert Lieder, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten. In addition to
her European career, Dr. Hastings has performed recitals, and given
master classes in the theaters and music conservatories of the Peoples Republic of
China, and most recently Ljubljana, Slovania,
and Zagreb,
Croatia. She continues to perform, lecture, and adjudicate
throughout the United States and abroad.
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