{"id":70,"date":"2011-10-28T02:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T02:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-10-24T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:15:56","slug":"meet-soprano-diana-scheidker-the-chorales-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/10\/meet-soprano-diana-scheidker-the-chorales-ballerina","title":{"rendered":"Meet soprano Diana Scheidker: The Chorale’s Ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Diana<\/a>Diana, a soprano, has been in the chorale for five years. Her favorite performance was the Brahms Requiem<\/em> in the 2009-10 season. \u201cAs a stay-at-home mom, I really need something challenging and interesting in my life that is just for me. Luckily, I have a completely wonderful and supportive husband, who takes over at home and pushes me out the door on Mondays for rehearsal,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

When she\u2019s not singing, Diana is driving her boys around to their various activities, and enjoys hiking with her family and reading mysteries and biographies. She says her love of music and the performing arts came from listening to her father\u2019s opera recordings while she was growing up and studying ballet at the Louisville Ballet\u2019s academy and during summers at the Washington Ballet School in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

During her last two years of high school, Diana was in the Louisville Ballet’s junior company and performed in the corps de ballet in productions of The Nutcracker<\/em>, Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, and others. \u201cAlas, I was not really good enough to pursue a professional career in such a competitive field, so I went to college and eventually ended up in Southern California,\u201d she says. In college a friend talked Diana into auditioning for a production of Guys and Dolls<\/em> at the South Bay Center for the Arts. She was in it for the dancing, but they wanted her to sing, too! Soon, like many of us, she was a certified musical theater geek.<\/p>\n

After taking some singing and music theory classes as an undergraduate, she sang in the\"\"<\/a> College Singers under Dr. John Alexander (currently the director of the Pacific Chorale) as a grad student at Northridge State, where she earned a master\u2019s degree in European history. \u201cThat experience was terrifying and exciting at the same time. As a person who learned to read music as an adult, I was in way over my head, but I worked really hard to keep up and I learned to love choral music,\u201d Diana says. Now she\u2019s a soloist in her church choir at St. Gregory’s Episcopal, and she has soloed with Long Beach Chorale as well. She delighted all of us with a duet rendition of \u201cThis is the Night\u201d from Disney\u2019s Lady and the Tramp<\/em> at the animal-themed concert at Rancho Los Alamitos in the 2009-10 season.<\/p>\n

To “adopt” Diana as part of our Adopt a Singer program, click here:
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To read more singer profiles in our Adopt a Singer campaign, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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