Alice Matteson, soprano

 

Alice Matteson, soprano, was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. The early music bug bit her at an early age after being introduced to Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus at a Royal School of Church Music summer camp. Alice graduated magna cum laude from the Hartt School in 2008 with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. During her time at Hartt, she performed the role of Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, and partial roles of Ginevra in Händel's Ariodante, as well as the First Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. She was also a featured soloist with the Hartt Baroque Collegium. Concert works have included soprano soloist in Mozart's Requiem, Fauré's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, and Benjamin Britten's Missa Brevis and Ceremony of Carols. Chamber works have included soprano soloist in Heinrich Schütz's Müsikalische Exequien, J.S. Bach's Wedding Cantata (BWV 202), J.S. Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227) and Giacomo Carissimi's Jonas.

 

Alice is very dedicated to music ministry in the church. She has been a member of the Schola Cantorum at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, CT since 2008. She also serves as a cantor for the Catholic Communities of East Hartford North and St. John Fisher Church in Marlborough, CT. Alice is also an active voice and piano instructor. She is on faculty at Summit Studios Performing Arts Center, located in Manchester, CT, and The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT.