Beatrice Broadwater, Soprano

Lyric Soprano Beatrice Broadwater is a native New Yorker and a graduate of  Mannes College of Music.  She has studied voice with Sebastian Engelberg and Peter Elkus.  Her lyricism has been appreciated by audiences throughout the Northeast as well as in Denver, Minneapolis, Toledo, Paris, Hamburg and Wick, Scotland.  In May of 2000, she performed a New York debut recital with pianist Matthias Veit at Merkin Concert Hall in a program that included Alban Berg’s Sieben Frühen Lieder and Dominick Argento’s Casa Guidi, based on letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  She subsequently returned to Merkin Hall in a recital program called “Forever,” Enduring Poems in American Song with pianist Arlene Shrut.  This celebration of American composers included world premieres by Gerald Ginsburg.    This season she was  privileged to present the first performance of Gerald Ginsburg's newest cycle Earth Tones accompanied by the composer at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in a concert which also included works of Brahms, Fauré and Poulenc with pianist Jon Holden.

Ms. Broadwater has brought her joyful insight to the soprano solos of Haydn’s Creation with the Canterbury Choral Society, Vivaldi’s Gloria in a sold out performance at Alice Tully Hall,  Handel’s Messiah with the Candlewood Choral Society and Beethoven’s Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra with the Liederkranz Orchestra and Vladimir Feltsman at the keyboard. 

An accomplished chamber musician, she recently was presented in two concerts with ensemble as part of the MoreMusic series at the Church of St. Thomas More in New York: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and a special Mother’s Day program with string quartet that included works by Handel, Mozart and Harvey Burgett. In May, 2006 she sang Miriam Gideon’s Böhmischer Krystall and narrated Elizabeth Austin’s Wie eine Blume with Ensemble Pi in the American Composers Alliance Festival at Symphony Space in New York.

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