PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Classical soprano Andrea Holliday earned a music degree at the University of Chicago and also undertook extensive private training in music, vocal technique, drama, poetry and foreign languages. She has been a concert soloist with many orchestras and choral groups (see Performer's Bio below), and a regular member of such professional ensembles as Chicago Opera Theatre and Music of the Baroque. Ms. Holliday's own voice teachers have included Karen Brunssen, Thomas Wikman, Jeffrey Horvath and Diane Forlano.VOICE STUDIO
Ms. Holliday's studio includes young professional singers and complete beginners. "I am pleased to work with anyone who is earnest about improving his or her singing voice" she says, "in whatever style of music you like to sing." Her students perform regularly on and off the University of Chicago campus, and a number have participated in the annual Chicago NATS Auditions (National Association of Teachers of Singing).PERFORMER'S BIO
Often heard in the larger concert works of Mozart, Haydn, Handel and Vivaldi, Ms. Holliday has a particular devotion to the music of Bach. But her repertoire -- spanning Broadway, jazz and new music -- also displays a broad streak of Romanticism. A concert in Downers Grove on Nov. 18, 2007 will pair John Rutter’s Magnificat -- a Romantic blockbuster for soprano, chorus, and orchestra -- with Vivaldi’s popular “Gloria.”With the Michigan Bach Collegium Ms. Holliday has been guest artist in several Bach cantatas, most recently the Wedding Cantata #202. She has been a frequent soloist on the Bach Cantata Series at Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, where in April 2007 she sang the lovely soprano aria in the Easter Cantata #31. Next March she will be featured on the series at St. Luke's Evangelical Church, Chicago, in Cantata 177, "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ."
In Chicago's Auditorium Theatre, she sang Mendelssohn as soprano soloist in a Ground Zero benefit organized by the Joffrey Ballet. In 2006, Handel Week featured her in an Oak Park chamber program of four Handel cantatas, partnering mezzo Julia Bentley. In October 2006 she rejoined the Rockford Bach Chamber Choir for two performances of Reformation cantatas 79 & 80.
A busy recitalist, Ms. Holliday has presented dozens of art-song programs at diverse venues. She is accompanied at the piano by her husband, conductor and keyboardist Thomas Wikman. The couple will be heard on Nov, 4, 2007, in a program of Romantic Russian and Italian music in Glen Ellyn, IL.
Andrea Holliday
Soprano and Voice Teacher
5458 S. Everett Ave.
Chicago, IL 60615-5962
773/ 363-3526
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