Mezzo Soprano Dawn

Mezzo-soprano Dawn is a distinguished soprano singer and educator. Her life has been profoundly influenced by operatic performers who are also teachers, fueling her passion to inspire others and share her love for classical opera.

Dawn has performed leading operatic roles and extensive solo concert work with the Amarillo Opera, Opera in the Heights, OrchestraX, Ars Lyrica Houston, the Moores Opera Centre, and the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre.

Her impressive solo concert work includes performances with the Houston Masterworks Chorus, the Houston Chamber Choir, the Alamo City Men's Chorale, the Men's Consort of Houston, the Mid-Texas Symphony, and the Symphony North of Houston.

Her concert repertoire features solo work in Duruflé’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Israel in Egypt, and Judas Maccabeus, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem, Solemn Vespers, and Coronation Mass, Debussy’s La Damoiselle Elue, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Schubert’s Ständchen, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9, Honnegger’s King David, Bach’s Magnificat, Bernstein’s Chicester Psalms, Copland’s In the Beginning, and Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War.

Currently, Mezzo-soprano Dawn is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Houston's School of Music. She has performed notable roles for the esteemed Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre, including Ragonde in Le Comte Ory, La Voix de la Mére in Les Contes d'Hoffman, and Alma Allegretto in The Amazing Adventure of Alvin Allegretto.

A celebrated operatic singer and educator, Dawn was recently named a finalist in the San Francisco Opera Centre's Merola Program.