Sandra Tucker: Soprano
Described as posessing a voice that is "meltingly lyrical", Sandra Tucker received a Bachelor of Music and a Diploma in Opera from Wilfrid Laurier University under the direction of Victor Martens. She then went on to study with acclaimed soprano, Edith Wiens, at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg, Germany, for which she was the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Emerging Professional Artists and the York Celebration of the Arts Professional Artist Bursary.
While in Germany she received an Artists Diploma and Post Graduate Certificate and had the opportunity to work with such greats as Rudolph Jansen, Brigitte Fassbaender, Rudolph Piernay, Sena Jurinac, Sarah Walker, Ian Burnside, and others.
Her concert credits include appearances with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, the Barrie-Huronia Symphony, the WLU orchestra, the Hochschule für Musik Augsburg Orchester, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Guelph Chamber Choir, University of Guelph Choir, and Hart House Orchestra, Dvorak's Te Deum and Rutter's Mass of the Children with the Cellar Singers, Elijah with the Menno Singers as well as the London Philharmonic Choir, Messiah with the Mennonite Mass Choir and at the Basilika in Ulm, Germany, and as a soloist in the European Musik Festival at the Bach-Akademie in Stuttgart where she sang the soprano soloist for Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under the baton of Sir Helmuth Rilling. Her opera credits include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte,Carolina in Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Both Susanna and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene, Manon in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief,as well as major roles in Die Zauberflöte, Hansel and Gretel, and others.
Sandra has sung for the heads of the Russian embassy at the home of Glazunov in Munich and has been invited to represent Canada at the International Festival of the Conservatories in St. Petersburg. Her upcoming engagements include Richard Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder with the Wellington Winds, Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute with Opera Kitchener, and Rutter's Mass of the Children with the Grand River Chorus.
Sandra is also a 2007 Laureate of Les Jeunes Ambassaduers Lyriques.
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