Amber Marsh

American Soprano Amber Marsh is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she earned her Master of Music degree, studying with Linda Ormiston. Prior to this, she received a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Daniel Mobbs, Barbara Honn, and Patricia Craig.

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This past summer, Amber played the role of Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with Manhattan Opera Studio. She also made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist as part of Manhattan Opera Studio’s Summer Opera Gala.

 

Operatic roles include Despina (Così fan tutte), covering Branghien (Le Vin Herbé), 1st Spirit (Die Zauberflöte), and La Grosse Dame (Les mamelles de Tirésias). Scene work includes Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), 1st Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring), Ilia (Idomeneo), and Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro) with RCS. She has taken chorus roles in The Fiery Angel, The Grand Duke, La Calisto, and in two separate productions of Die Fledermaus. She played the role of Brünnhilde in Edinburgh Studio Opera’s production of Loose Operatic Women for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2017. She has also sung in masterclasses with musicians and composers such as Suzanne Mentzer, John Musto, Libby Larsen, Roger Malouf, and Sanford Sylvan.

 

Amber began her studies at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, California. Performing at LA Opera in the Eva and Marc Stern Grand Hall in 2007 as well as with LA Opera’s Manzanar Project at Royce Hall, UCLA in 2004. She received a Schubert Young Artists Fellowship in 2014 from Songfest Summer Institute. She has interned at both LA Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, been a selected vocalist for the Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts in 2009, and was deemed a Los Angeles Gifted Student in music and drama. She was privileged to work with 70’s pop singer Engelbert Humperdinck on his recording of Jerusalem, featured on iTunes and in the World Cup Rugby campaign in 2007.

 

She was a 2016 national semi-finalist for the New York Lyric Opera Theatre National Competition and a 2016 national finalist for The American Prize in both opera and art song categories of the Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award. She has been the recipient of the Vincent Constantino Scholarship and the James H. Schwabacher, Jr. Scholarship from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Scottdale Choral Society Scholarship, and the Saltire Scholarship for her studies in Scotland.