CAROLINE G GIBSON, DMA, Soprano and Founder of TwinProductions "Our Music
Is Our History," recently featured on "Artworks This Week" Maryland Public Television (MPT), is a featured speaker and
vocal artist with MinistryWomen.Net, and is a board member of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs.
Dr. Gibson, an active performer, has earned the Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) Degree from the University of Iowa School
of Music in Iowa City, Iowa; the Master of Music (M.M.) and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Degrees from the Catholic University of
America Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Washington, D.C. and the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, respectively.
Additionally the Soprano is an alumnus of AIMS (American Institute of Musical Studies) in Graz, Austria and the Senese Vocal
Program in Siena, Italy.
Among her many honors and awards Ms. Gibson has received, her scholarly accomplishments include High School Class Valedictorian
in Seat Pleasant, Maryland; Individual Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for
the Arts; Music Scholarship from the Benjamin T. Rome Graduate School of Music, Catholic University of America; and a Doctoral
Fellowship from the Graduate College at the University of Iowa. Performance highlights include debut solo recital at the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Terrace Theater, Washington, D.C.; performing artist for the Honorable Michael
N. Castle, former Governor of Delaware at the Governor's Mansion in Dover, Delaware; featured soloist with the Delaware Symphony
orchestra under the direction of Maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser; and First Place Winner in the Naomi Music Productions and Recordings
in New York. In academia, Ms. Gibson served on the faculty of Delaware State College, Dover, Delaware as the Director of
Choral Activities.
The Soprano has been spotlighted twice in two hour-long concerts featured on Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) Television;
WHMM Channel 32, "An Evening with Caroline Gibson" accompanied by The Chamber Orchestra; and "Caroline Gibson
in Performance;" and has performed as a solo artist on Italian TV, Canale 3, Toscana, Siena, Italy. Ms. Gibson's first
tour of Mexico as a solo concert artist was under the auspices of The State Government of the Yucatan, and the Center for
International Research and Advancement in commemoration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Technological Institute with performances
at the Teatro Daniel Ayala Perez and the Salon de la Historia de Palacio de Gobierno in Merida. The second concert tour of
Mexico was under the auspices of the Cultural Institute of the Yucatan, Mexico for the Otono Cultural Festival and included
performances at the Teatro Jose Peon Contreras. The Soprano has also been featured in recital "Spirituals in Concert"
in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
To date, Ms. Gibson's most memorable performances have been in two Verdi masterpieces, Abigaille in Verdi's
Nabucco with Opera Constanta in Constanta, Romania and the Soprano Soloist in Verdi's Requiem.
A most important milestone for Ms. Gibson as both an independent artist and Founder of TwinProductions has been last
year's release of the CD "On Ma Journey Now"Negro Spirituals In Concert and companion DVD "The Making of
On Ma Journey Now," available right here on this site!!!
No other medium expresses the historical realities of African
Americans as accurately as the haunting melodies of Negro Spirituals. Rooted in the praise and worship rituals of precolonial
West African societies and matured in the inhuman institution of American chattel slavery, Negro Spirituals preserve the sorrow,
joy and hope of an enslaved people. Spirituals or Jubilee Songs, also embody the faith and despair of post-Civil War
African Americans aspiring to the ever-elusive dream of equality. And for us today, the journey towards full equality
continues ...
"On Ma Journey Now"
