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The American soprano , Ellen Robertson, studied voice with Dr. Jonathan Retzlaff at Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester (2015-2019), graduating with Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance as a Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program fellow. Through this program, she completed internships with the Nashville Symphony and WXXI Classical 91.5. She is an alumna of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria (July-August 2017), where she studied German Lied with Kenneth Griffiths, as well as the 2014 Summer at Eastman Music Horizons program and the 2013 Tennessee Governors School for the Arts vocal program (June 2013). She received the Renée Fleming Scholarship and the Ornest Award for her freshman and junior year jury performances at Eastman. She has participated in master-classes with Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, and Kenneth Merrill at Eastman, and with Barbara Bonney at the American Institute of Musical Studies. She currently studies for her Master of Music in Vocal Performance/Opera at Northwestern University (since August 2020), as student of Karen Brunssen.
A passionate performer of both musical theater and opera, her musical theater roles prior to beginning her collegiate studies include the Leading Player in Pippin and Asaka in Once On This Island. At Eastman, her roles with Eastman Opera Theatre include a spirit in Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon, Virtù in Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Euridice in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. She has also enjoyed opportunities to sing with various Eastman choirs, Collegium Musicum, and as the soprano soloist in a performance of BWV 102, Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben. She was also a member of the professional chamber ensemble Voices. |
