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The American soprano, storyteller and dancer, Grace Vangel, has been a musician since she was 6, and has taken lessons on piano, violin, guitar, and trumpet. She graduated Cum Laude from Lawrence University with a Bachelors of Music in Voice Performance (2013-June 2017). She also has an extensive education in ballet, tap, and jazz dance, and remembers fondly playing a Snowflake, Dewdrop, Candycane, and Child in many performances of The Nutcracker with her ballet studio in St. Louis. Past training includes: IES Vienna, Makaroff School of Ballet, and The Dance Center of Kirkwood. She also has a keen knack for languages, and is proficient in Spanish, as well as conversational in German and French. She is now living in Chicago, studying with Emily Birsan.
Grace Vangel can be heard singing with Apollo Chorus of Chicago as well as OperaOnTap Chicago (since September 2017). She has been Operations Coordinator at Center on Halsted (June-September 2017); Assistant Stage Manager at Thompson Street Opera Company in Chicago (August 2017-September 201); Assistant to the Office of the General Director at Lyric Opera of Chicago (October 2017-May 2018). Her favorite performing experiences include singing Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (IES Vienna), Madame Blanche in Francis Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites (Lawrence University), Cupido in L’Egisto (Lawrence University), and Molly Brazen in The Beggar’s Opera (Lawrence University). |
