Susanna Phillips

Susanna Phillips

Susanna Phillips is a soprano opera singer at the Chicago Lyric Opera. Though born in Birmingham, Alabama she and her family moved two weeks after she was born, to Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama; where she grew up and attended school at Randolph School. While attending Randolph, she also began studying voice with Ginger Beazley at Ars Nova School of the Arts. There her talents flourished and she soon found herself accepted to the Juilliard School in New York.

At Juilliard, Susanna became a student of Cynthia Hoffmann and began coursework for a Bachelor of Music degree in 1999, continuing there until receiving a Master of Music degree in 2004 followed by becoming a member of the Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program for Singers during the summer 2004 season, "covering" the role of "Donna Elvira".

In recent years, she has won a number of awards and prestige from her well regarded performances, including having been named a soloist for the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, winning $15,000 at the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions in March of 2005, and most recently winning the women's division and the People's Choice awards at Plácido Domingo's Operalia competition in Madrid for $30,000 and $10,000 respectively.In March 2005, Phillips joined "Lyric Opera Center for American Artists" at the Chicago Lyric Opera.

She participated in Santa Fe's "50th Anniversary Arias Gala Concert" on 12 August 2006 and sang the role of "Pamina" in the final two performances of the 2006 season production of "The Magic Flute". For Santa Fe's 2007 season, she sang the role of Fiordiligi in "Cosi fan tutte".

External links

* [http://naumburgconcerts.org/2005/phillips.htm Brief Biography]
* [http://susannaphillips.com Susanna Phillips website]


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