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About UNIPAC - History

The Utah/Idaho Performing Arts Company started out as a dream sometime around August, 2000.  It has now become a reality. 

In July, 2000 I attended three performances of the Utah Festival Opera Company in Logan, Utah with my mom and grandma.  We saw Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), Carmen, and The Mikado.  Also that year I began taking voice lessons.  From these experiences my love of art song and opera began to grow.  A short time later, I decided I wanted to have my own performing arts company, a way to bring more of this art form I was beginning to fall “in love” with, to more people.  As time went on and I started producing solo vocal recitals, my love affair grew into a full-blown romance.  Unfortunately, I had to lay my dream of a performing arts company on hold as I, at the time, did not have the means to begin such a venture.

I moved to the Salt Lake area towards the latter end of 2006.  About 18 months later this dream that I had tucked nicely away (in the closet, so to speak), began to poke its head out of the door and sneak back into my life.  I was developing my skills as a vocalist, a poet, and a composer. I needed (or dare I say, ‘wanted’?) a medium to present my material to the general public and a performing arts company seemed to be the right course of action.  Such was the beginning of the Utah/Idaho Performing Arts Company.  Of course, my love of opera took over (music is, after all, a harsh and jealous mistress).

And that is how the Utah/Idaho Performing Arts Company began.  So, sit back and enjoy the performances.  You won’t be sorry. 

- Joey Calkins, Founder/General Director
August, 2009
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