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Honoring honoring this year’s Milnes VOICE Awardees
Michael Ching, composer
Fabrizio Melano, stage director
& Carol Vaness, soprano

This annual event supports scholarships for artists and is a VOICE family gathering — a time of reunion, sharing, and partaking in joy. We hope you will join us in making this memory.

Soprano Abigail Brodnick works with Maria Zouves in a master class during the Milnes VOICE Studio in Savannah, GA.

 

About VOICExperience

The VOICExperience Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, established by world-renowned baritone Sherrill Milnes and his wife, soprano Maria Zouves. Its mission is to pass on the traditions of great singing and develop new audiences for opera. Since 2001, VOICExperience has helped thousands of singers find their career path through educational programs and workshops, where emerging artists work with the best names in opera, musical theatre and song.

Now under the umbrella of The Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs, VOICExperience continues its dedication to the quality, integrity and perpetuation of the vocal arts through life-changing intensives, performances, and community enriching outreach events in New York, Georgia (with the Savannah VOICE Festival), and Florida. 

The VOICE Programs (Savannah VOICE Festival and VOICExperience)
are committed to welcoming all. To discriminate is to fail in our mission. We strive to keep from making judgments based on someone’s race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or identity, age, education, socioeconomic status, or ability. VOICE serves artists and patrons locally and globally, always embracing the ideals of a diverse community. We acknowledge that there is much to be done to raise our voices against hate, injustice, and inequality both in the arts community and in our everyday lives. We are committed to doing our part to make sure everyone feels welcome and valued. We support all who join us in this mission.

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VOICExperience operates in partnership with its sister organization, the Savannah VOICE Festival. Your donation to the Savannah VOICE Festival supports the mission of VOICExperience and all of the Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs.

Sherrill Milnes & Maria Zouves, Presidents and co-founders