Mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. She has received a BA in music education and an MM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College . In January 2005 Ms. Bradford had the honor of performing works of Schubert, Rossini and Moses Hogan at the prestigious Kimmel Center in the Verizon Hall in Philadelphia with the renowned Maestro Christoph Eschenbach of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the piano. In 2004 she was the alto soloist in Undine Smith Moore's The Scene for the Life of a Martyr in Minnesota with the Witness Orchestra and Chorus. She was the 2nd place winner in the advanced lower division of the NATS competition in New Jersey in 2004,she received an |
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encouragement award for the Marian Anderson Awards in Philadelphia in 2003 and in 1999 she was the solo winner of the McDonalds Gospel fest.
Ms. Bradford has performed with the Westminster Opera Theater in Menotti's Old Maid and the Thief as Miss Todd, Bernstein's Candide and Bizet's LaTragedie de Carmen as Carmen. In 2004 at Opera North she performed the role of Hippolyta in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Gertrude in Gounod's Romeo and Juliet. Returning this past summer 2005 to Opera North, she sang the Duchess of Plaza Toro in Gilbert and Sullivan's Thy Gondoliers and the mother in Ravel's L'Enfant des Sortileges. Ms. Bradford is a Marian Anderson Scholar.