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The American soprano, Lianne Coble-Dispensa, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree, cum laude, from from State University of New York (SUNY) College at Fredonia; and her Master of Music degree from Florida State University. She received further training at the Lake Placid Institute for Music and the Humanities, the Austrian American Mozart Academy, and the V.O.I.C.Experience program. She lives in New York City, and currently studies with Mark Oswald. Her honors include national finalist awards from the Oratorio Society of New York, Jensen Foundation Competition, American Bach Society Vocal Competition, and Shreveport Opera's Singer of the Year Competition, as well as national semi-finalist recognition in the Joy in Singing Competition. She was also a Regional Winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions.
Lauded by the New York Times as having a voice of “melting, devotional sweetness”, and by the Dallas News as a “luminous soprano [who made] singing seem so easy", Lianne Coble has quickly established herself as a sought-after concert, operatic, and chamber music artist. As an active concert soloist, in past seasons she has performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, Concert Royal, Western New York Chamber Orchestra, Orchard Park Symphony, Chautauqua Orchestra Ensemble, Tallahassee Bach Parley, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Musicians of the Old Post Road; and has sung at the Fredonia Opera House: Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival, New York, among others. Her solo engagements have taken her to such illustrious stages as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, and St. Thomas Fifth Avenue. Operatically, she has sung lead roles with Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell), Syracuse Opera, Opera Colorado, Ash Lawn Opera Festival, Berkshire Opera Company, Opera Colorado, and the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca, New York. Additionally, she is an active recitalist, having performed recitals in Western New York, Florida, Virginia, Connecticut, and New York City.
Lianne Coble’s operatic repertoire includes leading roles in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Werther, L’Elisir d’Amore, Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, The Consul, W.A. Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne, The Gondoliers, Trial by Jury, Il Signor Deluso, and Die Fledermaus, among others. As a concert soloist, she has sung in W.A. Mozart's Requiem and Missa Brevis, J.S. Bach's Cantata BWV 51 and Cantata BWV 191, Antonio Vivaldi's O qui coeli terraeque serenitas, Schubert’s Mass in G, J. Hadyn’s Paukenmesse and Kleine Orgelmesse, Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Francis Poulenc's Gloria, and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2.
In the 2008-2009 season, Lianne Coble made her Carnegie Hall debut, soloing in Haydn’s Kleine Orgelmesse and John Rutter’s Mass for the Children with MidAmerica Productions and the New England Symphonic Ensemble. Engagements in 2009 included soloing in the Gabriel Fauré's Requiem with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and collaborating with the elite Baroque ensemble Musica Sacra at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. Highlights of her 2013-2014 season include national finalist recognition in the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, and her debut at the Carmel Bach Festival as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow, where she sang the music of Bach, Grandi, Purcell, and Handel. Additionally, she sang performances of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with the Riverside Choral Society, works of J.S. Bach & Clérambault with the Dallas Bach Society, and, on multiple occasions, was a soloist on the Carnegie Hall stage with MidAmerica Productions and Manhattan Choral Productions.
Lianne Coble is also an active collaborative musician, and has sung in recent seasons with the elite vocal ensembles Musica Sacra, The Clarion Music Society, Seraphic Fire, The American Classical Orchestra Chorus, Ensemble Origo, and the professional ensembles of the Church of St. Ignacius Loyola and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Since 2015-2016 season, she is a full-time member of the extra chorus of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, having performed in past productions of Boris Godunov, Les Troyens, and Parsifal, as well as upcoming performances of Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Lianne Coble can be heard on the Musica Sacra recording "Messages to Myself", under the MSR Classics label, Seraphic Fire's "Reincarnations: A Century of American Choral Music", and a forthcoming recording of Rameau’s Zephyre and Clerambault’s Le Triomphe de la Paix with Concert Royal, under the Centaur Label. She (and her husband, Scott) can be heard on the GRAMMY-nominated album of Maximillian Steinberg’s “Passion Week” with the Clarion Choir.She currently lives in Liverpool, New York. |
