Bethany Worrell, soprano

 Praised by Opera News for her “gleaming tone,” soprano Bethany Worrell has performed in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cruz Bay, and Salzburg. Ms. Worrell has enjoyed the warm collaboration of working with Diane Braun and Music Street since 2014, having performed world premieres of brand new works, art song recitals, and house concerts in Boston, Baltimore, Martha’s Vineyard, and the U.S. Virgin Islands with the group. Ms. Worrell frequently appears as a recitalist and soloist, performing with the Metropolitan Chorale, Heritage Chorale, Jordan Winds, Atlantic Symphony, the Boston Art Song Society, and Music Street. She has been a featured recitalist for the Freeport Memorial Library Concert Series on Long Island, West Tisbury Library on Martha’s Vineyard, Brookline Library Music Association Concert Series and Beethoven Society of Melrose Concert Series. With duo partner Seoyon MacDonald, Ms. Worrell was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Joy in Singing Competition and also participated as a team in the Five Burroughs Music Festival’s masterclass with renowned coach and pianist Martin Katz. As a young champion of New Music, Ms. Worrell has given world premiere performances of orchestral, chamber works, and song cycles in Massachusetts and Illinois. With pianist Diane Braun, Ms. Worrell has worked closely with song composer Thomas Oboe Lee to premiere both his H.D. and Gaspara Stampa song sets. She can be heard as a soloist with the Jordan Winds and Maestro William Drury on the newly released Night Songs: The Music of Richard Toensing album. She sings weekly in the all-professional Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Choir in Midtown Manhattan. Operatically, Ms. Worrell has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, the North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) in Faneuil Hall, Boston Opera Collaborative, Opera del West, Longwood Opera, and MetroWest Opera. Bethany is a native of Macomb, Illinois and is currently based in New York, NY. www.bethanyworrell.com