User:BonniePomfret

Bonnie Pomfret, soprano, has sung music from the 12thth to 21stst centuries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her solo compact disc of songs composed by American women, De Toda la Eternidad, (ACA Digital) was released to critical acclaim, with the title song cycle written especially for her by Libby Larsen. Pomfret has sung with various orchestras and opera companies around the U.S. and in recital around the world. Pomfret holds the DM in Voice and Vocal Literature from Indiana University, an MM in Voice from Boston Conservatory, and bachelor’s (SMP) in Voice and Piano from the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany. She was a Rotary Fellow in Italy and received an NEH fellowship to study the early staging of Wagner’s operas at the Bayreuth Festival. Pomfret has taught voice, vocal pedagogy, and directed operas on the faculties of Boston University, Illinois State University and Emory University. Currently she teaches in her private studio in the western suburbs of Boston. At the moment Pomfret is interested in the sean-nos repertoire of Irish song; she is studying the Irish Gaelic language and transcribing some performances by winners of the Corn Uí Riada singing competition.