Shannon Barry

Soprano Shannon Barry has interests spanning historical performance, vocology, and choral singing in addition to her roles on the operatic and concert stage. Most recently, she has performed in three Bach cantatas as a concentist and Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres. She has sang two productions of Contessa/Le Nozze di Figaro with DePauw Opera (IN) and Aquilon Music Festival (OR). Some other appearances include Jo/Little Women (DePauw Opera), coached by composer Mark Adamo, the title character in Rodelinda (Halifax Summer Opera, Can.), Anna Murrant/Street Scene (DePauw Opera), and Ottavia/L’incoronazione di Poppea (DePauw Opera). In concert she has sang the soprano soli in Britten/Hymn to St. Cecilia. In the summer of 2017, Barry went to SongFest where she worked with Martin Katz, Sanford Sylvan, Roberta Alexander, Libby Larsen, Kayo Iwama, Alan Louis Smith, John Musto, and Jake Heggie, and Suzanne Mentzer.

As a chorister singing J. S. Bach, she has worked professionally with conductors Helmuth Rilling, Kathy Saltzman Romey, Christopher Caruso-Lynch, Michael Boney, Michelle Louer, and John Harbison, also singing with ensembles such as the Columbus (IN) Philharmonic Chorus, Christ Church Cathedral (IN), St. Andrew’s Episcopal (Pittsburgh) Schola Cantorum, Second Presbyterian Church Beecher Singers (IN) and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Indianapolis. She has also sang at venues such as the Thomaskirche (Leipzig), Georgenkirche (Eisenach), Stadtkirche (Weimar) Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, and La Madeleine (Paris) in concert.

She has won first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition in the Indiana state competition for the past four years. She competed in the semifinal round of the Mondavi Center National Young Artists Competition in Detroit, Michigan in 2018. In 2015, she was a Finalist in the Tri-State Vocal Competition and a National Semifinalist at the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition. In 2015, she placed first at NATS Regional for the Great Lakes and advanced as a National Semifinalist among Lower College Women. In 2013, she was named a Grand Prize Finalist in the Music Center Spotlight Awards, culminating in a performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, CA. As part of the prize, she was awarded a fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival where she studied with W. Stephen Smith.

In addition to her vocal studies, Ms. Barry received a B.A. in Biochemistry at DePauw University. She has taught voice lessons for the past six years to local students and is involved with Reimagining Opera for Kids (ROK) in Bloomington, IN. She studied with Mary Ann Hart for her M.M. in Vocal Performance at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.