Faculty Biography

Amy Cochrane, Lecturer


Contact:
(585) 389-2700


Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Voice


Education:
New England Conservatory of Music, MM
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, BM


Biography:
Soprano Amy Cochrane has appeared previously as soloist with Rockbridge Choral Society in Haydn's Creation, and in Mozart's Mass in C minor. Critically acclaimed performances with the Madison Opera and Symphony Orchestra include Gilda in Rigoletto and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2, "Lobgesang," as well as Adina in The Elixir of Love.

Ms. Cochrane made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1998 singing Gabriel and Eve in Haydn's Creation under the direction of John Rutter, and has since returned to Carnegie hall to sing Creation again, and as a soloist in the New York premiere of The World of the Spirit, by Benjamin Britten. This past Fall Ms. Cochrane returned as soloist with Chicago's prestigious Music of the Baroque in Handel's Dixit Dominus, under the direction of Nicholas Kraemer. Her several performances as soloist with Music of the Baroque include Bach's Cantata Wachet auf, Vivaldi's Gloria, Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, Schubert's Mass in G and Cavalli's La Callisto. Also this season she joined Chicago's Rembrandt Chamber Players in a concert of works by bassist and composer, John Deak.

Last Fall, Ms. Cochrane sang as Costanze in Mercury opera's upcoming production of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, and then Violetta, with the Oswego Opera and their production of La Traviata.