Pamela Hinchman, Soprano
Biography
Soprano Pamela Hinchman has received universal critical acclaim since being an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera. She has performed with opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the United States. She was named Musical America’s Young Artist to Watch. In addition, she has sung in major venues in Italy, France, England, Israel, Mexico, Austria, Egypt and Hong Kong.
By the press, she was praised as a Susanna who “cast a glow into the theatre whenever she was on stage. Figaro couldn’t have a more irresistible Susanna.” She created the title role in the world premiere of Menotti’s The Bride from Pluto at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and has performed with the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and with the opera companies of Pittsburgh San Francisco, Palm Beach, Kentucky, Florida Grand, Nashville, Cleveland Opera, New Orleans, Chautauqua, Grand Rapids and many others.
Engagements in 2007-08 include Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Opera Grand Rapids, recitals at Indiana University, University of Michigan, Curtis Institute of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Illinois, Cleveland Institute of Music, the Riga Academy in Latvia, Vilnius Academy in Lithuania, the Georges V Recital Series at the American Cathedral in Paris, The Rostov State Theatre in Russia and the University of Melbourne, Australia.
She will also appear in Master Class at the Chautauqua Opera and the American Institute of Musical Studies in (Graz, Austria and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Orchestral engagements include Gershwin Galas in Naples and Lucca, Italy, Haydn’s Creation in Vienna and Eisenstadt, Austria and Carmina Burana with the Billings Symphony and the New Mexico Symphony. She kicks off 2008 with a five-city recital tour of South Africa.
Last season, engagements included recitals in Tenerife, Spain; Guatemala; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Lucca and Naples, Italy and Graz, Austria. Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Grand Rapids, a return to Cleveland Opera as Norina in Don Pasquale, Josephine in HMS Pinafore with Chautauqua Opera, and a performance at Carnegie Hall of Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass filled out the rest of her season. Recent orchestral engagements for Ms. Hinchman have included performances of Handel’s Messiah at the Independence (Missouri) Messiah Festival, which is telecast annually on PBS, a Gilbert and Sullivan Evening in Evansville Symphony (Indiana), Duluth Symphony (MN) and the Jacksonville Symphony (FL), Carmina Burana in Louisiana, and a return to Egypt to sing Gliere’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano with the Cairo Symphony. Recent operatic engagements have also included Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with the Cleveland Opera, Adina in L‘elisir d’amore for Knoxville Opera and Nashville Opera, Kathie in The Student Prince at Utah Festival Opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Opera Grand Rapids and the Cleveland Opera and in concert with the Kansas City Symphony, and Adele in Die Fledermaus with New Orleans Opera.
Pamela Hinchman is also in high demand for concert appearances, and has performed with orchestras around the world, including Washington’s National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, Florida Philharmonic, Harrisburg Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Indianapolis, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Richmond Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Haifa Symphony in Israel, Cairo Symphony in Egypt, Pacific Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and many others. She has appeared at the Wolf Trap, OK Mozart and Caramoor Festivals. She has sung a wide variety of concert repertoire such as Mozart’s Exultate, jubilate and Coronation Mass, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Gliere’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, Mahler’s Symphony #4, Haydn’s Creation, and countless Pops concerts ranging from Broadway to Johann Strauss and Lehar. She made her European debut at the Spoleto Festival, where she was featured in a multi¬media performance of Mozart’s unpublished lieder, created for RAI Television. She can be heard on CD in “A (Gottschalk Gala: Songs and Piano Pieces” and in Handel’s Messiah on PBS.
A native of Pennsylvania, Pamela Hinchman received her Masters Degree in Opera from the Curtis Institute of Music. She was recently given an Alumni Achievement Award by the Cleveland Institute of Music for “significant professional achievement in performance.” In addition to maintaining an active career in opera arid concert, Ms. Hinchman is currently professor at Northwestern University where she recently was awarded two University Research Grants for Cross Cultural Music Exchanges.
