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Ms. Warren received her Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from Belmont University where she studied on a performance scholarship. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music is from Wesleyan College in Macon, GA where she was a Heyward endowed music scholar. Ms. Warren also studied at The American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and in 2010, she joined the Metropolitan Opera’s assistant conductor, Joan Dornemann, as a young artist at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Montreal, Quebec.
Ms. Warren’s students have had great success in the performing arena and have gone on to study at numerous universities; including Webster University, The University of Evansville, The University of Lousiville, Layola Univeristy, Belmont University, and New York University. Many of her students have also been accepted to the prestigious TN Governor’s School for the Arts and have placed in or won such competitions as The Schmidt Vocal Competition, The Concert Chorale of Nashville Vocal Competition, and the Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation Vocal Competition.
As an active classical performer, Ms. Warren has performed nationally and internationally and has been praised as a “powerful and finely nuanced soprano” (trans from Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, 2011) with a “bell pure soprano voice” (trans from Die Rheinpfalz, 2010). Ms. Warren will begin the 2011-2012 season with the role of Annina in Verdi’s La traviata with the Nashville Opera. Later this season, she will be featured with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra in Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915 and Mahler’s Fünf Ruckert Lieder.
Most recently, Ms. Warren was the soprano soloist in Ein deutsches Requiem in the 2011 European tour with Blue Lake International Symphony where her performance was lauded as “a soft-lined, expressive consolation song full of vocal grace” (trans from Augsburger Allgemeine, 2011). In 2010, she was a Mary Ragland Young Artist for the Nashville Opera, performing the roles of Sandman/Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel and il Paggio in Rigoletto. In 2009, she made her European mainstage debut with the role of Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro in Weimar, Germany.
Other roles to her credit include Pamina in The Magic Flute, Gretel (cover) in Hansel and Gretel, Lola in Gallantry, Geraldine in A Hand of Bridge, Lucy in The Telephone, Virginella in La Perichole, and Maria in West Side Story. Ms. Warren recently returned to the musical theatre stage performing the role of Miss Jones in the 2009 production of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, for which she received the "Best Featured Actress" award from the Pull-Tight players’ theater.
In 2011, Ms. Warren won first place in the Grace Moore vocal competition. She also took first place in the 2011 Coeur d’Alene Symphony competition. Ms. Warren was awarded the Professional Development Grant from the TN Arts Commission for 2010-2011. In 2009, she won the Beethoven Club Young Artist competition. She also won the Jackson Symphony Vocal Competition, the Belmont Concerto and Aria competition, and was a finalist in the Georgia NATS classical and musical theater competitions as well as a semi-finalist in the Orpheus and the Singer of the Year vocal competitions.
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