About Me:

I am a performer, teacher and scientist inspired by the differences that make each person unique. I have a background in classical vocal performance, arts administration and plant science and I deeply treasure the natural world.

Alice Del Simone

Coloratura soprano

Alice Del Simone, a San Francisco Bay Area native, received her B.A. in Vocal Performance and B.S. in Plant Science from UC Davis in 2014. There, she was awarded the Fannie Kopald Stein Award for Excellence in Music Performance, the David S. Saxon Award for Excellence in Early Music Performance and an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Performance in the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Del Simone is currently pursuing an M.M. in Voice Pedagogy and Performance at the University of Colorado Boulder, and studies with Andrew Garland.

Boulder Opear, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, December 2021

Opera

Del Simone enjoys performing varied operatic repertoire including an upcoming appearance as Clytemnestra in the premiere of Anne Hege’s The Furies with Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Recent appearances include The Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcard from Morocco (Argento) with Eklund Opera, Gilda in Three Feathers (Laitman) with Opera Steamboat, La Princesse, Le Rosignol, and Le Feu in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Ravel) with Boulder Opera, La Feé in Cendrillon (Viardot) with Loveland Opera’s Educational Outreach, and Poppea in Agrippina (Handel) with Eklund Opera. She has also performed as Cis in Britten’s Albert Herring at the Miami Summer Music Festival, in the Ensemble in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Opera Parallèle. In 2022, Del Simone was a Certificate of Merit recipient in the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition.

Del Simone as Poppea in Handel's Agrippina, CU Boulder, May 2021

Choral Music and Voice Teaching

Del Simone is also an active choral performer. She has recently performed with Boulder’s Ars Nova, 21V, Volti, San Francisco Ballet, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Berkeley Symphony, and ODC among others. Del Simone taught music theory and vocal pedagogy for the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir and currently maintains a small private voice studio. She enjoys approaching the challenges of vocal instruction with positive energy and optimism and celebrates the differences that make each voice unique. In pursuit of centering diversity in her teaching and performing career, Del Simone is currently undertaking voice science research that hopes to provide links between differences in facial measurements and effective vocal instruction techniques. She also actively seeks works by female and POC composers for her own performance and for her students.

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