New York native Carolyn Anderson is a soprano, educator, and producer/director dedicated to increased accessibility of 21st century music and stories.

She is currently A.B.D. status, working on her Doctor in Musical Arts in Contemporary Music degree from Bowling Green State University, specializing in voice performance and digital media.

Ms. Anderson has performed with Toledo Opera, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Lima Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Art Museum, and Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music.

For the 2024-2025 season, Ms. Anderson made her film-producing debut at the PRAECEPTA Mini-Festival with her film adaptation of Jonathan D. Kroeger’s Matchless in February. She and composer/pianist Steven Naylor were in residence at Interlochen Center for the Arts to present a recital and lectures on new music for young musicians in March. She played First Lady in Bowling Green State University’s production of the Magic Flute in March. In August, she will play Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Taconic Opera.

As a recitalist, she has performed the complete cycles: Messiaen’s Harawi, Lori Laitman’s I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Jake Heggie’s Camille Claudel: Into the Fire, Babbit’s Philomel and Juhi Bansal’s Love, Loss and Exile.

Previous engagements of Ms. Anderson include the Novice in Suor Angelica at Toledo Opera, Hildegard in Steven Naylor’s award-winning chamber opera Visionary at the MACCM New Music Festival, and Eric Whitacre’s Goodnight Moon with the Bowling Green Wind Symphony. From 2021 to 2024, Ms. Anderson was a member of the Toledo Opera Chorus.

Ms. Anderson has premiered several chamber operas, art songs, musicals, choral works, and chamber works by composers: Katherine Meizel, Devin Clouse, Anthony Constantino, Joshua DeLozier, Connor Gibbs, Jonathan D. Kroeger, Andy Junttonen, Indigo Knecht, Matthew Lam, Alvin Leung, Zachary McDonald, Emily McPherson, Joesph Miller, Steven Naylor, Alex Ngo, and Leah Tracy.

In 2022, Ms. Anderson and pianist/composer Steven Naylor won the Majorie Conrad Art Song Competition. In 2020, she placed in the NATS Great Lakes Region Competition.

As a teacher, she has seven years of experience teaching private voice and has taught courses in diction and voice for non-music majors at BGSU. She is a private voice instructor at the Toledo School for the Arts.

Ms. Anderson is passionate about performing and producing new chamber operas for stage and film. She is the coordinator of BGSU’s “MicroOpera” program; an annual collaboration between the College of Musical Arts’ composition and voice departments to premiere new chamber operas by student composers. Last season, four chamber operas were produced by Ms. Anderson and this season, Ms. Anderson will produce and perform in all three selected chamber operas.

In the summer of 2024, she interned at WGTE Public Media, where she was the editor of several podcast episodes, served as the announcer in PBS Kid’s educational service’s broadcast, was featured as a guest in their podcast “Opera Out of the Box,” and was a guest host for their “On the Road” events.

Ms. Anderson received her Master’s in Music from BGSU with a concentration in voice science and pedagogy and her Bachelor’s in Music from Oberlin Conservatory. Young artist residencies include Nightingale Opera Theater and Chicago Summer Opera.

As a teenager, she attended prestigious arts institutions such as Interlochen Arts Academy, Snow Pond Center for the Arts, and Eastman Community Music School. She received honor awards from each institute and was awarded a Merit award from the YoungArts Foundation.

She has worked closely with great directors, teachers, and performers such as Keith Phares, Katherine Pracht, Myra Merritt, Jane Schoonmaker Rodgers, Kevin Bylsma, Dan Michalak, Daune Mahy, Timothy LeFebvre, Laura Osgood-Brown, and Christopher Mirto.