Tammy Hensrud

Tammy Hensrud is an American opera singer and teacher credited with hundreds of international performances. Also, she is an adjunct Professor of Voice at Hofstra University.

Life

Education

Hensrud began her career as a cellist and holds the Bachelor of Music Degree in Cello Performance, Master of Music and Master of Arts degrees from the University of North Dakota. She received a Fulbright Scholarship and continued graduate studies abroad at the Opernschule, Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany where she received an Artist Diploma. She has also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and the Franz Liszt Musik Akadamie in Weimar, Germany.

Career

As a soprano, Hensrud has appeared in opera houses throughout Europe and the US including the Vienna State Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Theatre de Chatelet in Paris, Klagenfurt Stadttheater, the Salzburg Summer and Easter Festivals, the Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, and Liederkranz Opera. Following a successful career with more than 35 roles in the mezzo soprano repertoire to her credit, Ms. Hensrud has embarked on what is quickly becoming an equally successful career as a performer of challenging and diverse soprano roles such as Amelia, Lady Macbeth, Senta, Chrysothemis, and Vanessa along with such roles as Donna Elvira, Tosca and Lisa. Throughout her career, Ms. Hensrud enjoyed consistent critical acclaim. She portrayed many pants roles from Mozart’s Cherubino and Sesto, to Strauss’ Octavian and Composer, as well as the Rossini heroines of Rosina, Cenerentola and Isabella. Her highly applauded European debut in Klagenfurt as Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi came while still in the Vienna State Opera’s Young Artist Program.

Ms. Hensrud sang her first Mimi in La Boheme with the Western Plains Opera, the title role in Carmen with Opera of the Hamptons, made her debut in a vocal chamber music program with the American Chamber Ensemble, repeated her role as The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Grand Forks Symphony, returned to the Fingerlakes Chamber Music Festival in recital and appeared as Soprano soloist with the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes with the Ridotto Concert Series. She was a soloist in the Durufle Requiem, and returned singing Chausson and Mozart with the American Chamber Ensemble, debuted in May 2004 with Musica Reginae Productions singing Mozart Concert Arias with orchestra, sings a world premiere concert featuring American composers with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at Merkin Hall, and sings a Recital Program of Ives, Bernstein and Gershwin for Ridotto..

Ms. Hensrud was presented at Merkin Concert Hall with the New York Virtuosi, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Si-Yo Society, was heard in Recital at the Liederkranz Foundation, the Kosciuszko Foundation, The House of the Redeemer Concert Series, Old Westbury Gardens Recital Series, Santosha Center for the Arts, Ridotto Concert Series, and in a one woman show, "Chanson to Cabaret" at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, NY. Additionally, New York audiences heard Ms. Hensrud as the Soprano soloist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the Christmas City Sings Concert and in Dubois’ Seven Last Words.Ms. Hensrud has performed recitals in Germany, Austria and France and has recorded Gounod’s Mors et Vita with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra. In the United States, Ms. Hensrud’s performances have included recitals at Carnegie’s Weil Recital Hall and on the main stage of Carnegie Hall. She was heard at the Rutgers University SummerFest in Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and returned to Rutgers University to sing in Mahler’s Third Symphony. She has toured the United States with the Trio, Solomania, performing recitals with cellist Zvi Plesser and pianist Daniel Blumenthal. A most versatile artist, Ms. Hensrud opened the International Concert Series at Hofstra University with a recital devoted to the music of Kurt Weill in the year of his centenary and has appeared with the Chiara String Quartet in an all voice/ String Quartet Program.