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Carol Rausch
Music Administrator/Chorus Master
Since 1995 Carol Rausch has served as Music Administrator/Chorus Master, overseeing the musical components of the company and the Young Artists Program.
Carol is also the Chorus Master/Music Administrator for the New Orleans Opera Association. She has previously worked for Virginia Opera, Greater Miami Opera, Ohio Light Opera and Opera Columbus. Carol has taught at The Ohio State University and at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She heads the opera department at Loyola University New Orleans, where she has prepared and conducted numerous opera productions.
Carol holds degrees from Indiana University and The Ohio State University, and she pursued a year of study at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Brussels, Belgium, as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow. Her teachers have included Jorge Bolet, Earl Wild, Richard Tetley-Kardos and Sonja Anschütz.
She has remained active as a recital pianist, including concerts with Marquita Lister, Fabiana Bravo, Ned Barth and Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet. Carol annually accompanies the Gulf Coast regional auditions for the Metropolitan Opera National Council and has judged both the district and regional levels of competition throughout the US.