Amy Shoremount-Obra

American soprano AMY SHOREMOUNT-OBRA is the Top Prize Winner of the 2018 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition Wagner Division and made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2014 as First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, a role she has performed at the Met sixteen times.

Her recent appearances include the title roles of Turandot, Thaïs and Salome, Leonore in Fidelio, and numerous other operatic roles, as well as concert engagements throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. Her concert repertoire includes Strauss’ Four Last Songs, Verdi’s Requiem, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony among many others. She has performed with organizations including Opera Idaho, Opera Carolina, Opera Grand Rapids, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, South Florida Symphony, The Plainfield Symphony, Knoxville Opera, Odyssey Opera (Boston), Southern Illinois Music Festival, Hawaii International Music Festival, New York City Opera, Annapolis Opera, Maryland Opera, Opera Las Vegas, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Spoleto Festival USA, Pacific Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Varna International, Opera Orchestra of New York, National Chorale, Oregon Music Festival, Savannah Voice Festival, Savannah Philharmonic, The Juilliard Orchestra, Adelphi Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Filarmónica del Estado de Chihuahua (Mexico).

Ms. Shoremount-Obra appears as First Lady on the Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 recording of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, featuring Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, and Nathan Gunn, with Maestro Evan Rogister and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall five times and has performed in recital throughout the United States, as well as in London and Sweden. As a young singer, she was the 2004 New York Regional Winner and Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semi-Finalist (now the Laffont Competition), and was also a finalist in the George London Competition that same year. She has been nominated several times for a Richard Tucker Award. In 2018, she was a Second Prize Winner in the Joy in Singing Competition, performing alongside pianist Christopher Cooley, with whom she has enjoyed a longstanding artistic collaboration. She was also a 2016 Winner of the Wagner Society of New York Competition.

Ms. Shoremount-Obra is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where she earned both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, and The Juilliard School, where she received an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies as a full scholarship recipient.

As a teaching professional, Ms. Shoremount-Obra was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2017, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate vocal performance majors. She previously served as an adjunct professor of vocal methods at The College of New Jersey and has held artist-in-residence positions at Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Wisconsin and Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua in Mexico.

She has presented master classes and lectures at Lawrence Conservatory (Wisconsin), the New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts, the New Jersey Youth Chorus, the University of Tulsa, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Florida International University, the Pennsylvania Music Education Association, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, and numerous festivals and workshops throughout the United States. Her presentations have included research on Manuel García and the bel canto tradition, the first season of Italian opera in North America, and the arrival of Western instrumental and vocal music in the Hawaiian Islands. Her article, “The Breath Support Conundrum and Manuel García,” was published by ACDA-PA in 2020.

Ms. Shoremount-Obra is currently on the faculty of Varna International Music Academy in South Carolina and in Italy and Bulgaria, as well as the Mozart Opera Intensive with Grandi Voci Concerts in Vienna, Austria. She has also held faculty positions with the Savannah Voice Festival, the Juilliard Nord Anglia Summer Voice Program in Orlando, Florida, the OperaTunity Voice Program with the Palm Springs Opera Guild in Palm Springs, California, Empower Voices Now, and the AT Balance Arts Center Summer Intensive in New York City.

She is a co-founder of the Hawaii International Music Festival and founder of HIMF’s García School, a workshop dedicated to training singers in the bel canto method. She also maintains a private voice studio in Manhattan and New Jersey.