Natalie Conte, MM
Adjunct Faculty
Biography
Described as “magnanimous and powerful”, soprano Natalie Conte is an award- winning performer of opera, art song, and oratorio. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2018 singing the soprano solo in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. She won first prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs’ Young Artist Competition, which featured her as a recitalist across the country. She also won the Maryland Lyric Opera Competition, after which she worked with Aprile Millo. Additionally, she won the Vocal Arts D.C. Discovery Art Song Competition which featured her as a recitalist throughout Washington D.C. in such venues as the Kennedy Center and the Phillips Collection. An avid believer in bringing great music to one’s own community, she has sung in works with the IN Series, the Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, New Dominion Chorale, and the Russian Chamber Art Society, among others. Beyond the local stage, Natalie has performed in her hometown Detroit, Michigan as well as internationally in Rome, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. Natalie has served on the voice faculty at Towson University since 2019. She has performed as a member of the ensemble with both the Washington National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. She looks forward to performing in The Promised End, an amalgamation of the Verdi Requiem and Shakespeare’s King Lear, this season with The IN Series in Washington, DC.