Biography

Having started my musical career on the violin at the tender age of 3, now have almost 30 years of musical experience under my belt. I started my choral career with the San Francisco Girls Chorus at age 7, and have been singing ever since. I’m a graduate of New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University, where I received two bachelor's degrees in vocal performance and drama, respectively.

I currently live in New Jersey and sing professionally throughout a wide geographic area with such groups as the Concert Chorale of New York, New York Choral Artists, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Singers. This summer I sang with the Spoleto Festival Choir at the 50th anniversary of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy.

For a sample of Maren’s vocal work, please listen to "Their Land Brought Forth Frogs" From Handel's Israel in Egypt.

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Union Affiliations: AEA, AGMA

Recent Solo Experience

• Alto soloist and section leader, Trinity Episcopal Church in Moorestown, NJ
• Alto Soloist, Lord of the Rings Symphony (Shore), Philadelphia Singers, 2004 and 2005
• Alto Soloist, Israel in Egypt (Handel), Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, 2003
• Alto Soloist, Requiem (Mozart), Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, 2003

Ensemble Experience

New York Choral Artists, Sancta Susanna (Hindemith), Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms), 2007; L'enfant et les Sortilèges (Ravel), Alexander Nevsky (Prokoviev), 2006; The Creation (Haydn), 2004; Romeo et Juliette (Berlioz), Ode to St. Cecilia (Handel), 2003; Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), On The Transmigration of Souls (John Adams - world premiere), 2002

Concert Chorale of New York, Der Ferne Klang (Shreker), 2007; Ecce Cor Meum (Paul McCartney - US premiere), Grendel (McClatchy), Psalm 150 (Bruckner), Psalm 116 (Schreker), Psalm 13 (Liszt), Psalm 23 (Zemlinsky), Psalm 100 (Reger), Das Paradies und die Peri (Schumann), 2006; Wandrers Sturmlied and Taillefer (R. Strauss), 2005; Psalm 130 and Die Macht des Gesanges (Czerny), Missa Solemnis (Liszt), Lauda Sion (Mendelssohn), The Seasons (Haydn), Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen and Sancta Susanna (Hindemith), 2004; Canti di Prigionia and Canti di Liberazione (Dallapiccola), Epitaffi Nos. 1 and 3 (Nono), 2003; Esther (Handel), Manfred Symphony (Schumann), Mass in F Minor (Bruckner), 2003; Messiah (Handel), 2002

Philadelphia Singers, Symphony No. 2 (Mahler), 2007; Nocturnes (Debussy), Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), 2006; Dixit Dominus (Handel), Psalm 23 (Schubert), Babylon (Whitman) Johannes-Passion (Bach), Death of Klinghoffer (Adams), Parsifal (Wagner), 2005; Requiem (Brahms), Chichester Psalms (Bernstein), Lord of the Rings Symphony (Shore), Carmina Burana (Orff), Nänie and Gesang der Parzen (Brahms), Requiem (Mozart), Symphony No. 3 (Mahler), 2004; Messiah (Handel), Requiem (Berlioz), 2003

The Crossing, Philadelphia 2006-present

Starlight Carolers, Philadelphia, 2006-present

Spoleto Festival Choir, Spoleto, Italy, summer 2007

Opera Company of Philadelphia, Aida (Verdi), 2005; Faust (Gounod), 2004

Core Singer, Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 - 2004

Little Orchestra Society, “Musical Mysticisms from Byzantium,” 2004

New York Virtuoso Singers, Messiah (Handel), Glagolitic Mass (Janáček), 2003; Symphony No. 2 and No. 8 (Mahler), 2002

Copyright 2006 Maren Montalbano