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The American lyric mezzo-soprano, Adele Dominguez (Grabowski), holds a BFA from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music; and since 2015 she is pursuing a Master of Music Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music in New Haven, Connecticut as a student of James Taylor and as a member of the Yale Voxtet. She was one of the winners of the 2012-2013 Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra Young Artist Competition; semifinalist at the 6th International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck, Austria; first prize winner in the Carnegie Mellon School of Music Baroque Concerto Competition (2015); and finalist at Handel Aria Competition in July 2016.
Adele Dominguez (Grabowski) has been recognized for her “polished, attractive and even tone” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and “expressive conviction” (The New York Times). She has already worked with conductors David Hill, Simon Carrington, Masaaki Suzuki, and Manfred Honeck. Her festival appearances include the Festival lyrique international de Belle-Isle en Mer. She performed the role of Annio in W.A. Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito (Undercroft Opera) at just 19 years old, Nancy in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring (Carnegie Mellon University) and studied Ernesto in J. Haydn's Il mondo della luna (Carnegie Mellon University) and Hänsel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel (Carnegie Mellon University). She has sang in multiple premiered new works, and sang Margo in The Merry Widow with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh and Juditha in Antonio Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie with the Middle Saxony Theater. She made her New York solo debut at Lincoln Center in the Bach Lutheran Masses with Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 conducted by Masaaki Suzuki (October 2015). Recent performances include mezzo soprano soloist in Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces with Yale Camerata at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton University (December 2016). In 2016, she performed at The Greene Space as a soloist for the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL in the New York Premiere of Hilary Purrington’s For your judicious and pious consideration. She recently appeared as a soloist with New Music New Haven at WQXR. |
