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Sandra Piques Eddy, mezzo, is
a National Semi-Finalist and 1st Place New England
Regional Winner of the 2000 Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions. Ms. Eddy, a native of
Boston and a student of Susan
Ormont, received her master's in vocal
performance from Boston University's School for the
Arts last May. Presently Ms. Eddy is on the roster
of such musical organizations as Boston Baroque,
Handel and Haydn Society, Longwood Opera, and Opera
to Go.
Ms. Eddy's operatic roles with
orchestra include Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, the
Foreign Singer from Argento's Postcard from
Morocco, Nancy in Albert Herring, the Second Witch
in Dido and Aeneas, Tieresias in Marjorie
Merryman's Antigone and both Anna I and Anna II in
Weill's Seven Deadly Sins. As an apprentice artist,
last summer Ms. Eddy performed the roles of Eliza
in The Zoo, La Cantadora in La Verbena de la Paloma
and Melissa in Princess Ida with the Ohio Light
Opera Company. Her portrayal of Melissa may be
heard on CD under the Newport Classics label of the
Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
This summer Ms. Eddy is delighted to
join the Young American Artist Program at
Glimmerglass Opera where she is scheduled to
perform the role of Page in Salome and cover the
role of Gladys in Sousa's The Glass Blowers during
their 25th season. This fall Ms. Eddy will sing
Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with the Boston
Lyric Opera. Other upcoming engagements include
roles in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea and
the Vivaldi Gloria with the Boston Baroque
Orchestra directed by Martin Pearlman. In the fall
she will be an apprentice artist at the Opera
Institute of Boston University.
Ms. Eddy has won aria/concerto
competitions at both Opera
Lirica of Orvieto Musica and Boston
Conservatory, where she acquired her degree in
music education in 1994. An experienced choral
director, she has conducted youth choirs in Boston,
Easton, Framingham, Needham, and Wellesley. Ms.
Eddy was honored as Guest Conductor for the New
Jersey Children's Choir Convention in 1996 and
Musical director of the Casablanca American School
in Morocco through the International and Domestic
Educational Programs in 1997. Ms. Eddy is proud to
return for her third year as director of the Handel
and Haydn's Treble Ensemble. Ms. Eddy is a soloist
with Old South Church in Boston.
Having attended both
The Auditions Project
and Opera
Lirica, Ms. Eddy says: "Both experiences were
invaluable in my training in giving me experience
singing in front of very important people in the
business and getting feedback on auditioning as
well as suggestions for repertoire. I look forward
to taking it again."
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