VOICE

Email: aegross@ius.edu
Office: OG 055

Anne Gross (Voice).  Anne Gross, soprano, who has been praised for her exquisite tone, excellent breath control and enjoyable stage presence, is a polished performer who delights audiences with her musicality and sense of humor. Ms. Gross holds vocal performance degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B.M.), the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.) and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance (DMA). While completing her doctoral degree, she studied with world-renowned soprano Shirley Verrett and coached extensive song and operatic repertoire with renowned collaborative pianist Martin Katz, performing on many of his students' recitals. She recently partnered with Martin Katz to record the audio examples for his book The Complete Collaborator: The Pianist as Partner, published by Oxford University Press in May 2009.

Opera and operetta roles include Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte, Adina in The Elixir of Love, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Sophie in Werther, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Sister Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Monica in The Medium, Lucy in The Telephone, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Rose Maybud in Ruddigore, Margot in The Desert Song. Ms. Gross has created and performed several solo musical theater cabarets, including Hot and Cole Running Porter – The Life and Music of Cole Porter and A Taste of Love: An Evening of Jazz.

Ms. Gross has sung solo recitals on concert series in Michigan, Louisiana, Virginia, Washington, D.C, Massachusetts and Ohio and has been a favorite soloist with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. Her international career includes performances in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Havana, Cuba. Among her oratorio performances are numerous cantatas of J. S. Bach as well as the Mass in B Minor, the St. John and St. Matthew Passion, Misa Cubana (Vitier), Brahms' Requiem, Haydn's Paukenmesse and Handel's Messiah.

Ms. Gross has taught voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the College of Visual and Performing Arts at West Chester University, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance (graduate student instructor), and Eastern Mennonite University. She also chairs the voice department at Belvoir Terrace, a performing arts camp for girls ages 8-16, located near Tanglewood in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.