Emily Jane Waller is a passionate, up-and-coming soprano whose focus is within the verismo and dramatic repertoire.  Ms. Waller will make her international debut as guest artist and guest speaker at the Bonn International School in Bonn, Germany in Fall 2019.  Currently, she is appeearing in a recital series of French song; "La Belle Nuit", in several cities throughout the United States.  In addition, Ms. Waller has performed the roles of Handmaiden/villager in Turandot, Giulietta in Les Contes d`Hoffmann, Baba the Turk in The Rakes Progress, Café Girl in La Bohème, Nettie Fowler in Carousel, and Mama Maddelena in Nine.  She has done extensive scene study of the roles of Brunnhilde(Der Ring des Nibelungen), Elsa(Lohengrin), Arabella (Arabella), Norma (Norma), Rusalka (Rusalka), and Ellen(Peter Grimes)

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Ms. Waller has been guest artist with Westminster Choir College, Traverse City Symphony, The Summit of Florida, and All Saints Episcopal Church and First Presbyterian Church recital series, in East Lansing, MI and Mount Clemens, MI respectively.

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Emily has worked with directors that include Garrnet Bruce, Marc Verzatt, Melanie Helton, Richard Crittenden and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios.  Emily has sung in Master Classes for Deborah Birnbaum, Ricky Ian Gordon, Richard Hundley, Larry Alan Smith, Darren Hagen, Stephen Wadsworth and Julian Rodescu.  Voice coaches have included Marie-France Lefebvre, J.J Penna, Nova Thomas, Daniel Beckwith, Robert Thieme, and Thomas Hetrick.  Voice teachers have included Melanie Helton, Leyna Gabriele, Sharon Sweet, and Molly Fillmore.

 

As a chorister Emily has performed with Westminster Kantorei for the World Premieres of Stefan Young’s O! Vengeance!

and Caleb Burhan’s Super Flumina Babylonis, with the Westminster Symphonic Choir in A Tribute to Christoph Eschenbach: Symphony of a Thousand,  and with Westminster Kantorei, Saint Matthew Passion.  In addition, as a chorister, she performed with the Michigan State University Chorale, Michigan State University Women Ensemble, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, under the batons of Dr. David Rayl, Kevin Rhodes, Dr. Joe Miller, Dr. Andrew Megill, David Robertson, Christoph Eschenbach, Franz Welser-Möst, and Kurt Masur at world-renown locations such as Detroit Orchestra Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Avery-Fisher Hall and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. 

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Emily holds a Bachelor of Music from Michigan State University and a Masters of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College.  Currently, Emily studies with Dr. Stephen Morscheck at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX where she lives with her husband.