Fernando del Valle [SEP] voice type
Fernando del Valle
Fernando del Valle (né Brian Stephen Skinner; February 28, 1964) is an American operatic tenor. He is the son of Edward King Skinner II, a Korean War veteran and Concha Marina Meléndez del Valle. The grandson of Aranka Bischitz great great granddaughter of Baroness Johanna Bischitz von Heves and cousin of Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate George de Hevesy and Fernando Melendez del Valle-Parker. He is the nephew of the Architect .
Ancestry.
He took the name del Valle in
and legacy.
In 1964, Hayward left New York for Dallas, Texas, where he became Artist-in-Residence and Chairman of the Voice and Opera Departments of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He was further honored by being named the Meadows Distinguished Professor of Voice in 1990, and soon after his death in 1995 the establishment of the Thomas Hayward Memorial Award.
Notable protégés.
- Fernando del Valle
- Donnie Ray Albert
- Gary Lakes
- Jeff Harnar
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