Soprano Amy Conn is in demand throughout the Midwest. She is known for her pure tone, communicative warmth and musical intelligence. Amy appears on both the concert and theater stage in music of many periods, with a special love for baroque repertoire. Recent performances include Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Exsultate, jubilate, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, Purcell’s King Arthur, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus, Couperin’s Leçon du Ténèbres, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Haydn’s Creation, “Lord Nelson” Mass and Theresienmesse.

Ms. Conn has soloed with Music of the Baroque, Baroque Band, Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Elgin Choral Union and Symphony, Chorus Angelorum, North Shore Choral Society, Lutheran Choir of Chicago and Bach Chamber Choir. She is a former long time member of Chicago a cappella. Stage appearances include lead roles in Acis and Galatea, The Turn of the Screw, Yeomen of the Guard and The Pirates of Penzance.  In 2010, she made her debut with Chicago Opera Theater, covering the role of Isifile in Cavalli’s Giasone.

Ms. Conn is one of the founding members of Urban Baroque, a small voice and period instrument ensemble, and has performed with the group since 1999 in concerts and radio broadcasts including Bach cantatas, Italian chamber duets, Parisian court music and English Baroque repertoire. Other chamber groups with which she has performed include Eighth Blackbird, Trio Settecento, Rembrandt Chamber Players and Ars Antigua.

Ms. Conn is featured on a CD of Celtic Baroque music with Ars Antigua. In 2006 she participated in the Handel Singing Competition in London and was a semi-finalist in the American Bach Soloists Young Artist’s Competition in Berkeley (CA).  In 2010 Amy was a finalist in the New York Oratorio Society’s Young Artist Competition, performing in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and was a winner of the Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artist’s Competition.

The 2010-11 season includes Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Tavener’s Cantus Mysticus with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra,  Bach Cantatas at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest and with the Madison Bach Musicians,  Steven Riech’s Music for 18 Musicians with Eighth Blackbird, and Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers with the Elgin Choral Union.  Ms. Conn will also be singing a series of recitals with pianist Shannon McGinnis with songs by Robert Kritz, Germaine Tailleferre, Kurt Weill and Clara Schumann.

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