About the performer:
Alyssa’s “strong soprano voice” delivers performances deemed “an embarrassment of riches” (Jeanné McCartin, Seacoast Online). She has found a niche as a vocal artist that slides easily between genres and styles, with keen musicianship and sight-singing skills that make her a sought-after collaborator. She is a founding member and vocalist for the New York City-based early music ensemble Ars Poetica.
Last season, Alyssa performed the role of Healer in the world premier of Hildegard, Reborn with the NYPL at the Lincoln Center, and sang the role of Nature in Early Music Access Project’s regional premier of James Shirley and John Locke’s Cupid & Death at the famed Blackfriars Playhouse.
“Alyssa is one of those rare humans who does a great number of things at a very high level. She has captivated Early Music Access Project audiences with her acting and sings 17th century music with clarity and ease.”
—David McCormick (Executive Director of Early Music America, Artistic Director of Early Music Access Project)
Alyssa is a frequent collaborator around New York City and Boston. She joined Alkemie’s Verdant Medicine tour and sang the role of Narrator in Markaris’ world premier of Tam Lin at the Five Boroughs Music Festival. She has also been heard as a soprano soloist singing new music with Theotokos at St. Mary’s on Grand St. and at Trinity Church Boston in their Messiah and Saint Andrew’s Singer Series.
ROLES
Favorite and notable roles in opera and musical theatre include Nature (Cupid & Death), Morgana (Alcina), Blanche (Jane Eyre), Blondchen (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Alice and Comtesse Adele u/s (Le Comte Ory), Sibella and Phoebe u/s (Gentleman’s Guide), Milk Seller, Dance Captain, and Featured Dancer (Oliver!), Cunegonde u/s (Candide), and Sibella u/s (Gentleman’s Guide). Elizabeth (Second Nature), Skokànek (Příhody lišky Bystroušky), First Priestess (Iphigénie en Tauride), Fire (u/s) and Nightingale (L’enfent et les Sortilèges), Clorinda (Cinderella), Mrs. Wilkinson u/s and Dance Captain (Billy Elliot), and Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte).
Alyssa is especially interested in developing new works. In November 2019, Alyssa sang in an off-off-Broadway reading for the new musical Dublin Rising.
COMPETITIONS / MAJOR WORKS
In 2022, Alyssa placed in the Quarterfinals of the prestigious American Traditions Competition for multi-genre vocalists. She received an honorable mention in the 34th Annual Young Texas Artists Music Competition in the classical voice division. After winning the Collegiate Vocal Competition hosted by the Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra, Alyssa performed as the soprano soloist in Schubert’s Magnificat and Haydn’s Missa Sancti Gabrielis at the Winner’s Concert. Other soloist performances of major works include Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai and Paukenmesse, and Handel’s Messiah. Alyssa has performed a broad range of choral and symphonic masterworks, and has served as the soprano section leader for the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Mercury Chamber Orchestra.
CONTEMPORARY STYLES
Outside of concert halls and theatres, Alyssa’s contemporary singing extends to the stadium, the cruise ship, and the bar. She’s a regular voice actor and vocalist in Spiffemol Industries’ radio shows in Brooklyn, NY, and enjoyed performing traditional and Celtic music aboard a schooner in Maine last season. Alyssa sang as a lead vocalist at Prohibition on the Upper West Side throughout 2019 and as part of an 80s cover band, The Chocolate Orb, at Houston’s infamous Numbers bar. She sang as a backup singer for Josh Groban’s 2013 tour at the Houston Toyota Center and for Andrea Bocelli’s 2014 tour. In 2016, Alyssa competed in her first pageant: she won the Miss Greater Worcester title and went on to place as runner-up for Miss Massachusetts.
TRAINING
Alyssa studied at the University of Houston (B.M. Vocal Performance) and the renowned New England Conservatory (M.M. Vocal Pedagogy).
