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	<title>Courtney Huffman</title>
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		<title>The Carnegie Hall Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My journey began a year ago when pianist, Tali Tadmor, and I were honored with the incredible experience of winning the NATS Artist Awards Competition in Nashville, Tennessee (a moment you can read about if you scroll down to “First Place in NATSAA Competition”).  After that surprising event, Tali and I began to brainstorm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtneyhuffman.com/2009/07/the-carnegie-hall-experience/</link>
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		<title>The Carnegie Hall Experience: Uncut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My journey began a year ago when pianist, Tali Tadmor, and I had the incredible experience of winning the NATS Artist Awards Competition in Nashville, Tennessee (a moment you can read about if you scroll down to “First Place in NATSAA Competition”).  After that surprising event, Tali and I began to brainstorm which music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtneyhuffman.com/2009/07/the-carnegie-hall-debut-experience/</link>
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		<title>Carnegie Hall Press Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soon after I returned home from the Motezuma performances, publicist Jona Rapoport formulated a press release for my Carnegie Hall debut. After numerous hard working hours to help publicize this important event, it has been posted on the Musical America website. Click on the following link to view the press release:  http://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?archived=0&#038;storyID=20551&#038;categoryID=5.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtneyhuffman.com/2009/04/carnegie-hall-press-release/</link>
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		<title>LA Times Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am thrilled to announce that on March 29, 2009 I received a rave review from The Los Angeles Times for my performance as  Motezuma’s daughter, Teutile, in Long Beach Opera&#8217;s production of Vivaldi’s  ‘Motezuma&#8217;. Mark Swed writes, &#8220;Teutile…brilliantly sung by a young soprano, Courtney  Huffman, just entering the professional arena, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtneyhuffman.com/2009/04/la-times-review/</link>
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		<title>Professional Concert Debut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My professional concert debut with the Sunriver Music Festival Orchestra in Sunriver, Oregon was held on August 22, 2008. Teaming up with mezzo-soprano Sarah Mattox, we performed a concert of “opera favorites” with several duets and arias. The highlights included Puccini’s “O mio babbino caro”, excerpts from Carmen, and the famous “Flower Duet” from Lakmé. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtneyhuffman.com/2008/09/professional-concert-debut/</link>
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		<title>First Place at NATSAA Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 27, 2008, I experienced one of the most exciting moments of my professional career thus far. After months of auditions and competing all over the country, I was awarded First Place in the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Artist Award Competition in Nashville, Tennessee and will be making my New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtneyhuffman.com/2008/07/on-winning-nats/</link>
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		<title>Professional Opera Debut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 14, I made my professional opera debut with the Intimate Opera Company, portraying the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata.  This production came to life under the baton of Kristof Van Gryspeer and the direction of Mark Lamanna.
I began learning the role in Italian in January of 2008, and worked on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://courtneyhuffman.com/2008/07/profesional-opera-debut/</link>
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