Soloists
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Alyssa Bennett |
Alyssa Bennett performs in Chicago and around the world as featured soprano soloist with Trio Chicago & Friends, a five-member ensemble co-sponsored by the US State Department and the Illinois Arts Council. Acting as cultural ambassadors, the ensemble has performed concerts of American music in destinations as far-reaching as Turkey, Ethiopia, Mali, Zambia, Uganda, Russia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Jordan, and next plans to tour in Egypt, Syria, and Mongolia.
Other highlights on the concert stage include Benjamin Britten's Ballad of Heroes with Chicago's Grant Park Orchestra, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the North Shore Chamber Orchestra, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s “Laudate Dominum” (from the Vesperae solennes de confessore) with the University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra, and Handel’s Messiah with the Luther College Symphony Orchestra.
Active as a soloist in contemporary and new music, Ms. Bennett has performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and the Chicago premiere of Ronald Perera’s Visions with the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble, as well as the premier performance of The Heart Poems by John Howell Morrison for the Cleveland Composers Guild.
Ms. Bennett has participated in the Alan Stone Debut Artists Program, Sherrill Milnes' V.O.I.C.Experience, Dorian Opera Theatre's Young Artists Program, and most recently appeared as Pamina in Milwaukee Opera Theatre's production of The Magic Flute. Other roles include Adele in Die Fledermaus, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Mrs. Mister in The Cradle Will Rock, and the title role in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.