Ianthe Marini

Dr. Ianthe Onelia Marini has been hailed by Boston Broadway Awards as "the one to watch and an unmatchable and dynamic force" and "a palpable presence on stage", and her work has been honored with the Best Actress in a Musical by Boston Broadway Awards (Anita, West Side Story), and The American Prize Winner in Conducting. A professional actress (Actors Equity Association), choral conductor (Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting), singer (American Guild of Musical Artists), flutist, and dancer, Ianthe is a versatile and eclectic artist with expertise, training, and professional experience in multiple genres, including musical theatre, jazz, classical, Baroque, art song, folk tune, Indigenous Chant, recording, film score, choral singing (all genres Medieval though 21st century, smallest ensemble work to largest symphonic orchestral singing). She has a sensitivity: the ability to transform her voice in color, timbre, and tone, as well as a stylistic depth and nuance that allows her to find interpretive choices between genre. She is extremely passionate about, and has dedicated all aspects of her vocational life to Acting Through Song: the ability of song to tell the truth through story, ultimately allowing us to find ourselves mirrored and illuminated through the intersection of text, and how it is illustrated through melody, harmony, rhythm, and style. All aspects of her life as a singing actress, an acting singer, a scholar, a choral conductor, and a professor are based on her passion for embodying our full authenticity through the use of text and voice, grounded in and through the connection with our most deeply rooted truth and breath. She has 25 years of experience as a stage actress and recently made her debuts with Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum (Wendy's Peter Pan and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and master teacher for their "Acting through Song" course), the San Francisco Opera Company (Omar), The Industry Opera Company (Westerly Breath), LA Camerata (La Liberazione di Ruggiero), and Musica Angelica (Christmas in Vienna Concert Series). She has been an invited conductor for the National Concert Series at Carnegie Hall. She has worked with some of the leading Maestri as Professional Chorus Master, having prepared choruses for professional performances at Carnegie Hall (NYC premiere of Jocelyn Hagen's The Notebooks of Leonardo); The Kennedy Center (the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann - Handel's Messiah, Sir James MacMillan - his own repertoire, and Maestro Steven Reineke - the works of Shönberg and Boublil; Meyerhoff Hall (the Baltimore POPS Orchestra conducted by Maestro Jack Everly) and (the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Marcus Stenz - Brahms' Requiem, Maestra Marin Alsop - Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms); and The RiverCenter (Columbus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro George del Gobbo - Verdi's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana). She is the former Paul S. and Jean R. Amos Distinguished Chair for Choral Activities at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Georgia where she helped found the Black Schwob Society as faculty advisor, an organization that focuses on equity and representation in Classical Music. She has her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of Maryland where she was the first female conductor of the University of Maryland Men's Chorus and the recipient of the Pomeroy Prize for performance and scholarship of 17th century music. As an actress for stage, film, and television, she has brought complicated women to life in multiple independent features and has had leading roles in showcases for industry executives at ABC, NBC, and FOX. Favorite roles include Theresa Rebeck's Drinking Problem (Renny), Braden McClain's Call of the Void (Eliette Vox), Cole Hamilton's "Beyond the White Veil" (Ceridwen), Adelina Anthony's "La Serenata" (Katerina, Home Owner), Jule Styne's "Gypsy" (Mama Rose), Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" (Witch), Frank Loesser's "Guys and Dolls" (Adelaide), Kander and Ebb's "Chicago" (Veronica), and Cabaret (Fritzie). She appears briefly with Tig Notaro and Asthon Kutcher in "Your Place of Mine" (Netflix), with Miles Teller in 'The Offer" (Paramount ), and with Jenna Dewan in "The Rookie" (ABC). Her work as a professional singer and conductor is inextricably linked to her work as an actor, and her teaching at the University level and beyond is guided by the intersection of music, text, dance, and the skills of acting. Her research has been published in the Journal of Singing, The Choral Conductor's Companion compiled and edited by Brain J. Winnie, and Teaching with Heart, Part II, edited by Jason Max Ferdinand and distributed by GIA publications. She is drawn especially to complex roles that encourage us towards a deeper empathy, compassion, understanding, and integrity at the local and global levels.