Mezzo-soprano Amy Anderson is an artist whose performances in opera, song and oratorio have taken her throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Highlights include a leading role in a world premiere at the Lincoln Center Festival, performances as mezzo-soprano soloist in the Mozart Solemn Vespers and Duruflé Requiem at Carnegie Hall, and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes with the American Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. Ms. Anderson was also featured in the North American Premiere of the Rimsky-Korsakov Opera May Night with Sarasota Opera. Her operatic credits encompass a wide range of roles and musical styles from Baroque performances of “La Messagiera” in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, to standard repertoire including “Carmen” and “Maddalena” to roles in new operas including Patience and Sarah by Paula Kimper with American Opera Project and Steel Grin by Peter Aglinskas with Chicago Opera Theatre. She has been featured with the Aldeburgh Festival in England, the Lincoln Center Festival, Opera Delaware, the West Virginia Symphony, Aspen Opera Theatre, Glimmerglass Opera, the Ashlawn-Highland Festival, Waco Opera, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Chicago Opera Theatre, and Sarasota Opera.

In addition to her interest in Opera, Ms. Anderson enjoys performing concert and song repertoire and has worked with American composer William Bolcom in a recital of his music in New York City, and has been a guest artist with the contemporary chamber music group “Continuum.” In Chicago, she has also performed a Dame Myra Hess recital at the Chicago Cultural Center which was broadcast over WFMT radio. She has received the American Opera Society Award, The Union League Club Scholarship, the Farwell Award and the Lynne Harvey Award. As a founding member of the vocal trio “Times Three,” Ms. Anderson traveled to Saipan in Micronesia on a humanities council grant and performed there extensively. She is featured on the recent release of the new CD “Times Three Swings,” and has performed with “Times Three” on Pops series throughout the USA and Canada, with the Baltimore Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony and the Charleston Symphony among others. Ms. Anderson now lives in Oak Park with her husband David de Jong and son Evan.