Soprano Pauline Tweed is well known to local audiences having been a featured soloist with the San Diego Symphony performing such works as: Mahler’s Second Symphony, Schubert’s Mass in G and Der Hirt auf dem Felsen including Von Wayditch’s Jesus Before Herod. She has also been a featured soloist with the San Diego Master Chorale performing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Mass in B minor, and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
Mrs. Tweed has been soloist with the La Jolla Civic University Orchestra in performances of Rachmaninoff’s The Bells and Bach’s Mass in B minor, which was filmed for public television. She has sung with the San Diego Opera, where she understudied Beverly Sills in Norma under the direction of Maestro Walter Herbert. She also has sung “Opera Under the Stars” as well as “An Evening with Jerome Kern” with the San Diego Pops Orchestra.
Mrs. Tweed has appeared as guest artist with the Grossmont Symphony Orchestra performing such works as: Ravel’s Scheherazade, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Verdi’s Requiem, Vaughan William’s Hodie, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Honegger’s King David, and Mozart’s Litaniae Laurentanae Beata Maria Virgine and Regina Coeli.
Mrs. Tweed’s roles in musical theater include “Dolly” in Hello dolly! with the Date Street Players, “Lalume” in Kismet and “Mamita” in Gigi, with the Vanguard Theatre.
Pauline Tweed did graduate work at the University of Southern California with Walter Ducloux, Natalie Limonik and Ruth Michaelis. Her performances of opera, oratorio and recitals have taken her to many areas of the country singing under such conductors as: Richard P. Condie, Bruno Rigacci, John Green, Peter Eros, Charles Ketchum, Thomas Nee and Zigmont Gaska. She is the soprano soloist at the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego and Temple Beth Israel. She is adjunct professor of voice at San Diego State University and Grossmont College. She is also past president of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, San Diego chapter. |
