Linda Larson

Soprano Linda Larson sings a wide range of repertoire, including opera, oratorio, chamber music, and song. She has performed throughout the country on operatic stages, with the New York City Opera National Company, Indianapolis Opera, Opera Memphis, Opera Illinois, Opera Theater of Rochester, Tacoma Opera, and others. Recent roles include Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, La Boheme's Musetta, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and the title role in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah.

Linda is particularly interested in new American music, and has performed contemporary pieces with New York's Encompass New Opera Theatre, Anonymous 4, Ensemble X, Voices of Change, and Troika New Music and Dance. Her previous performance with the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival featured John Harbison's The Rewaking. This summer she will appear at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, singing music of Robert X. Rodriguez. In the past season she premiered a piece of Oregon composer Jason Heald with the Umpqua Symphony in Roseburg, as well as pieces by several New York composers. Linda's premiere recording of composer David Glaser's Moonset No.1 was part of the portfolio submitted by the composer to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, from whom he won the Academy Award for composition. Singing oratorio and chamber music, Linda has also appeared with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, Alaska Chamber Ensemble, New Texas Festival, Chautauqua Institution, and others.

A native of Corvallis, Oregon, she studied voice there with Gwen Leonard and Karen Knutson, piano with Rebecca Jeffers and Bea Miller, and sang choral music with director Ron Jeffers. She continued her studies at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin. Honored as regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Linda is a graduate of the Tri-Cities Opera Resident Artist Training Program, and participated in the Twentieth Century Opera and Song program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Formerly coordinator of Vocal Coaching Program at Cornell University, she is now on the faculty at New York University.

email: LinLarson@aol.com

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