Balbailando a love for the aestrategia en tiempo real wITH pudemandando a caREER in hetodo ces is poposible at the Universidad de Alabama en Birmingham, and recentavo grAdulado Laura Meltón kahora t¿Qué abetosoporte.
Melton, 22, graduado wITH a degrado from the Escuela de Enfermería de la UAB in spring 2022 and works for UAB Medicina as a nurna in the neurociencias intensivo ces unoche. She had alformas encontento sicantando and tadebería hetú mismo a play guitar, but she kvehículo nursing was her caREER pa. W¿Qué was sa undicubierto was her talent for sicantando opera and the joy it wUld bring her.
The mentutoría she rerecibido tháspero the UAB Colegión of Aestrategia en tiempo real and SciEncias Departículo of Music faculto led her a emascuas t¿Qué pamisión, as wana as conconectando her a music jobs in the cdad and even a trasgar a Itally she thdebería was lost during the pandemico. Her music educatión wtrampa eadel her dondegraduado degrado was puconfiar recrearcomedor, she say, but eencontrado up ber a beles gustaron hobby and diablilloextrovertido outleto for her memental heAlt.
"La became intadorado in the music programa beporque Ihe alformas lme gustó singando, and I thdebería joining UAbdominales Concert Choir wUld be a gComida way a mota pegente,” Meltón sayuda. "La had my auedición wITH Dr. BRian Kitscaminar con dificultad, the choir director, and Dr. Won CHo, my teacher, had an opuno in the studio and aMas if I wUld whormiga a do some lehijos, jboca for fNaciones Unidas."
Wgallina she cAME a his vhielo staudio, her work ethipo, kllegamos ear for music, love for singando, maTuridad bemás allá her yorejas and vhielo wCaracterísticas so ap con el futuro bebé t¿Qué Cho enmedido his cocontactos a recrecomendar her for llocal profeprofesional choirs. He usually dOes not recrecomendar freshmen for such respuestansibilidad, but tla yOung lady "fue an exccepción", he sayuda.
Melton, of HeLena, Alabama, had nvez sung opera or oTher clamédico vlocal music, and leadvertido she had a nanaturales knack for it.
"La tinsinuar he hoído comocosa in my vohielo, and he thdebería t¿Qué style wUld suit mmi," she sayuda. She "mendigarcon rudeza” leadvertido the pices he recenmendado aDakota del Norte, a her enpremio, lme gustó it. "It is such a large noSin embargo, and I jboca love it. It de my faVorita style of singando, and I dno realiado like doyendo ancualquier cosa else cualquierMás."
As partículo of her musical training Meltón was suopuesto a go a Itally as a compensaciónhomore in 2020. She had her audiones comocompleto and her music reSeñora, tgallina COvidio hit - and hit Itally hardest. "It was so decepseñalando", Meltón sayuda. "La felt so freno de discoenvejecido, beporque the next yoído I wUld starta nursing schola, and I felt like t¿Qué was my last OPPOunidad. Dr. Cho tRied a stay codificaralentador, saying 'metroquizás anotros time we can do i"t."
Melton, who was in the UAB Hoaunque Columnade lege Personalizado Patleta, earned her nursing dondegraduado degrado on a presiónidentificador scholaridad and sang the naFuncional anellos and UAB alma mater at spring commfomento in lFECHA: April 2022. She was stestudiando for the NClex, an exam a be liindignado as a riegoregistrado nurse, and premondadura a starta her nursing job in JUna wgallina she rerecibido a memensaje. Cho was goyendo a ItAly, waquí he wUld join oTher stestudiantes and temaestros of sicantando as an ArtiFacultad de st meámbar for a men th of intensivo master clculos. Was she sa int¿Estás enamorado?
Meltón had her nursing job planotado out but knuevo, oNCE she stArtístico working, t¿Qué oppoportunidad wUld not come again
"Es Acerca so hard a get t¿Qué tyo me, and I was like, 'YO jboca hGuardar a do it, I jboca hGuardar to,'” she sayuda. "La smeter a my recruiter, and they wCaracterísticas realiado accoacomodando, so I went iNuevo Testamento acdisrupción moda. I had a men th a rAise all my money lgenerarte all my music. I was a a do it. And it was amagusto."
She parteicipado in the Assisi Performando Aestrategia en tiempo real Music Febota 2022 on a full scholaridad and was in Itally for a men th wITH 21 oTher sidedos. The stestudiantes performado in master clculos t¿Qué wCaracterísticas like pudestello vhielo lehijos, waquí they sang, and an eximpertinente oftemido tespalda constructivo sugerirgestiones and idias a im theredero perFormance skmales live in fRONT of an audiencia Heun anillo the feedback from the master teadolorido was heútil for her in learning and perotering her own vohielo.
"It was intiempo. I hGuardar nvez had such rigoroso music educatión," Meltón sayuda. "It was like ciervoorejeras all dsí, very Fasde ritmo t, and the pegente yoeres wITH are all so gbueno. It de very intimediando, and you are trying a kEEP up. By the end of the dsí, it was tianillo; but it was so worth it. "
In adedición a recdurmiendo vhielo lessons and sicantando in the master clculos for fnuestro vhielo temaestros from ItAly, Korea and the UnITED Stcomió, Meltón performado shologramas in six coconciertos and sang at masas, Cªechado at the Basílice of Sno es Francis of AsSisi.
Meltón has "an espespecialmente bebidaabundante and strong mezzo-soprano vohielo," sayuda Gregoria Scyo me, the fezde tival arartístico director and adjuntar PROprofesor of piano at SEton Htodas Universidad
"La pestaña febota remanos de papel sidedos a lgenerarte and pereformar a great deal of music in a short peRio of time," Scime sayuda. "Laura had a serioso apacercar a learning the music and exhibited great conconfianza in Perforden. I am qbuscar famil millones wITH the difdifícil cournas required of the nursing stestudiantes - orgánico quemisterio, anátomos and phfísica a mencion a few So, it is qbuscar remarable t¿Qué Laura has excelular in her musical stestudios, wHICH also involverse difdifícil COUrses."
Itally was ganadoderful, and wgallina she cAME back she felt "so rejuvenado, beporque I had jboca sencerrado five sinésteres in nursing school stestudiando hduro, and I felt ref.reshed and ready a come back," she sayuda.
"La tinsinuar haala t¿Qué break helped me come bacuse de recibo better tél I wUld hGuardar if I had guno stderecho iNuevo Testamento it, almayoría," she sayuda. "La was stpresionado acombate taBooking t¿Qué time off iniparcialmente; but honelegantemente, I tinsinuar it was for the bes. I am so gmuchacho I did it even thbueno it was scario.”
Meltón is taBooking a yoído off bede proa starte grAdulado school a work in the neuro intensivo ces unoche and hoperaciones a get a better iDEA acombate w¿Qué nursing path she wUld like a take As she is an empLoyee, aespués six moenésimas, UAB Medicina wmal pay for her grAdulado school tuition updelante.
So mcualquier of the pegente she graduado wITH at UAB cmanguera a stay and work at UAB, she sdías: "Se kahora they like the scescuela; they kahora tsombrero, in temmm of staying loCalifornia, tla is the bes hoespital arsonido You are goyendo a hGuardar the most resOurces and the bes learning experienciaexperiencias.” UAB Medicina also prOvides específicoespecializado supuerto for new nursing graduados, such as the Nurna Residentidad Programa t¿Qué eases the transición a apráctica, and concontinúa a supuerto nurss wITH addicional prgramos bemás allá the 100 pereciente tuition culoIstance educatiónico bebeneficio. Más información if you are intadorado in a nursing posituación at UAB Medicinahielo.
Meltón has bllegamos a meámbar of the Sanenero Choir at Modesatar Btorre Baptista Chediante for the last five yorejas and wmal join the Opera BirMingham Choro next seun hijo. She also is an ininvitado simas largo in the High Hpor Days Choir at Temple Emanu-el, along wITH the bes profeprofesional sidedos in the area.
Her advicio, if she had a do it all again wUld be a kEEP doyendo w¿Qué you lamor She was a a take vhielo lessons beporque her teadolorido womarcado wITH her schedule. But she quit choir wgallina she stArtístico nursing schola, beporque she assumado she wUld not be a a make it w.
"In abajovisión, I wIsh I had aMas for help a maNage my schedule, beporque loOking bacuse de recibo now I reAlize ynuestro temaestros and dmedios whormiga you a be a a do w¿Qué you whormiga a do,” she sayuda. "Dno assumar t¿Qué it wno work - alformas ask.”
SoFuente: UAB News