Clarissa Ocampo
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Clarissa Ocampo is a Filipino-American mezzo-soprano
opera singer. She is best known for her album Cradle Songs and sings professionally in the United States and Asia.
regime took place.
As a result, she enrolled as a pre-medical student at a local university. During this time, she decided to transfer to the University of Santo Tomas
Conservatory of Music. It was her time here that cemented her calling to music. "I was able to build a singing career in the Philippines while in college, and I think this was when I knew that singing was going to be my profession," she said.
A short time later, Ocampo was accepted into Juilliard for graduate school. It was then that she began her career in the United States.
. This production also featured Hayley Mills
, Marie Osmond
and Faith Prince
.
She also sang in The Mikado
with New Hampshire’s Opera North.
In 2000, Ocampo released her debut CD, Cradle Songs. This album won "Best Classical Album" in the 2004 Children's Music Web Awards.
"We both had the same vision of discovering young talent, honing their skills, helping them gain performance experience, and hopefully being a mentor for them in pursuing their own operatic careers," Ocampo said.
With that as a directive, "Let’s Shout Out!" was made into an internship program for high school seniors. Currently, the organization collaborates with Nipmuc Regional High School in Upton, Massachusetts
. Two seniors have completed such internships and gone on to further education in college music programs.
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
opera singer. She is best known for her album Cradle Songs and sings professionally in the United States and Asia.
Birth to young adulthood
Clarissa Ocampo was born in the Philippines to a concert pianist mother and an obstetrician father who sang opera as a hobby. She graduated from high school in 1986, and planned to attend college in the United States until the People Power Revolution against the MarcosFerdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
regime took place.
As a result, she enrolled as a pre-medical student at a local university. During this time, she decided to transfer to the University of Santo Tomas
University of Santo Tomas
The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines , is a private Roman Catholic university run by the Order of Preachers in Manila. Founded on April 28, 1611 by archbishop of Manila Miguel de Benavides, it has the oldest extant university charter in the...
Conservatory of Music. It was her time here that cemented her calling to music. "I was able to build a singing career in the Philippines while in college, and I think this was when I knew that singing was going to be my profession," she said.
A short time later, Ocampo was accepted into Juilliard for graduate school. It was then that she began her career in the United States.
Career highlights
Clarissa Ocampo sang the role of Lady Thiang in the Broadway national touring production of The King and IThe King and I
The King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...
. This production also featured Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills is an English actress. The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay , the Academy Juvenile Award...
, Marie Osmond
Marie Osmond
Olive Marie Osmond is an American singer, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s...
and Faith Prince
Faith Prince
Faith Prince is an American actress and singer known primarily for her work on Broadway. Prince has won the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical and received three Tony nominations.-Life and career:...
.
She also sang in The Mikado
The Mikado
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations...
with New Hampshire’s Opera North.
In 2000, Ocampo released her debut CD, Cradle Songs. This album won "Best Classical Album" in the 2004 Children's Music Web Awards.
Let's Shout Out!
In 2005 Ocampo and baritone Andrew Fernando, also a Filipino-born opera star, founded "Let’s Shout Out!". This organization is devoted to promoting opera among youth."We both had the same vision of discovering young talent, honing their skills, helping them gain performance experience, and hopefully being a mentor for them in pursuing their own operatic careers," Ocampo said.
With that as a directive, "Let’s Shout Out!" was made into an internship program for high school seniors. Currently, the organization collaborates with Nipmuc Regional High School in Upton, Massachusetts
Upton, Massachusetts
Upton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,542 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Upton-West Upton, please see the article Upton-West Upton, Massachusetts....
. Two seniors have completed such internships and gone on to further education in college music programs.