Diane Reich, Associate Professor of Voice and Division Coordinator in the BYU School of Music, will deliver the Devotional address.
Reich's remarks will be broadcast live on BYUtv, BYUtv.org (and archived for on-demand streaming), KBYU-TV 11, Classical 89 FM, BYU Radio, and will be archived on speeches.byu.edu.
Diane Thueson Reich, soprano, is the Division Coordinator for Classical Voice at Brigham Young University, where she also teaches Vocal and Opera Literature. She has earned doctoral and master’s degrees from Indiana University. Operatic roles include Marguerite in Faust, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, the title role in Strauss’ Arabella, Nanetta in Falstaff, Rosina in The Ghosts of Versailles, Mimì in La Bohème, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Valenncienne in The Merry Widow, Antonia in The Tales of Hoffman and created the role of Rosamond in the world premiere of Michael Valenti’s opera, Beau Nash, performed with Portland Chamber Orchestra. Diane has been a guest artist with Icicle Creek Music Festival, Third Angle Ensemble in Portland, OR; and also appeared with the Yakima and Walla Walla Symphonies, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Utah Chamber Orchestra, Indiana University Philharmonic, and Indiana State and Utah State University orchestras, as well as soloing in the northwest premiere of George Crumb’s Star Child in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall Diane was a featured soloist with Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Company in Hanoi, a guest soloist with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in Russia, and has sung several concerts throughout Vietnam and China. She recently performed a concert and taught master classes at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica in Pescara, Italy. Diane has been a multiple Metropolitan Opera Audition winner in both the Utah and Indiana Districts, and won first place in the Vera Scammon International S.O.S. Voice Competition.