Melinda Spratlan

mspratla@mtholyoke.edu

 

MELINDA SPRATLAN, soprano, has an outstanding reputation for versatility in refined and captivating performances of various stylistic periods. She is inspired by a deep love of text and is drawn to music of all periods. Her concert credits encompass works from the Renaissance to premières of contemporary songs. Some highlights of her career include singing Handel and Bach for the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, Purcell and Mozart for the Castle Hill Early Music Festival, Brahms at Tanglewood, Schubert and Wolf in Vienna for the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Vienna, Rachmaninoff in Montreal, Webern for Gunther Schuller's Twentieth Century Innovations Series in New York City, and Schönberg for the Opera Company of Boston. Along with these and many other appearances, she is also a frequent soloist in the Five College Area of Massachusetts.

Ms. Spratlan received her BA with departmental honors in music from Earlham College and also holds the MMus, MMA, and DMA degrees from Yale University.. She has studied with Blake Stern and Herta Glaz and has been invited to sing in Master Classes given by such eminent artists as Elly Ameling, Hans Hotter, Gérard Souzay, Kim Borg, Jörg Demus and Max van Egmond. She has recorded for Decca and CRI.