About the Artist

Biography

Elegant and appealing in a variety of repertoire, Amy Pfrimmer has experience, refinement, dramatic
flexibility and vocal versatility, with which she turns in consistently compelling performances.

 

Ms.  Pfrimmer has graced both concert and

opera stages throughout her career.

Among the opera contracts awarded to her include  

New Orleans Opera, Montreal Opera, Virginia Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Birmingham, Opera Grand Rapids, Shreveport Opera, Pensacola Opera and Ohio Light Opera.

 

Her roles include a large cross section of the soprano repertoire including: Manon Lescaut, Cio-Cio San in Madame Butterfly, Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Freia in Das Rheingold, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Micaela in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, as well as Lehár’s heroines, Hannah in The Merry Widow and Lisa in The Land of Smiles.

 

On the concert stage, Ms. Pfrimmer has performed with London Symphony, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland –Pfalz, Virginia Symphony, Illinois Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Lake Charles Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, Baltimore Choral Arts, New World Symphony,
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Jersey's Ocean City Pops, and the Glacier Symphony, among others.

 

Conductors

Ms. Pfrimmer has worked with distinguished conductors throughout her career. They include

Dennis Assaf, Harry Bicket, Keith Brion, Michael Butterman, Steven Byess, Anton Coppola, Karen Lynne Deal, Steven Edwards, JoAnn Falletta, Doug Fisher, Russell Gloyd, Mark Graf, James Judd, Glen Langdon, Pamela Legendre, David Loebel, Robert Lyall, Norman MacKenzie, Robert McBain, James Meena, Louis Menendez, Timothy Muffitt, Robert Page, James Paul, Leonard Raybon, Nicholas Ross, Peter Rubardt, J. Lynn Thompson, William Scheibel, Albert George Schram, Klaus Peter Seibel, Jerome Shannon, Klaus Peter Seibel, Marioara Trifan, Willie Waters, Garold Whisler, and John Zoltek. 

 

Directors

The directors with whom Ms. Pfrimmer has worked include Dean Anthony, Ted Christopher, Stephen Daigle, Renaud Doucet, Eric Dillner, Michael Ehrman, John Harris, Lorna Haywood, Bliss Hebert, Michael Howard, Chuck Hudson, Jay Jackson, Gina Lapinski, John Lehmeyer, Jay Lesenger, Kyle Marrero, David Morelock, Massimo Pezzutti, Joachim Schamberger, Bernard Uzan, and Julie Wright-Costa.

 

Honors and Awards
Throughout her career, Ms. Pfrimmer has been the recipient of several acknowledgments for her artistry. In the Metropolitan Opera National Council's Gulf Coast Region, she received 1st Place and was a National Finalist in that competition. Subsequently , she received a study grant from the Metropolitan Opera, was named a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellow, and she was a finalist in the Opera Birmingham and Mobile Opera Competitions. 

 

Education

A graduate of the Louisiana State University School of Music, and the Loyola University College of Music and Fine Arts, Amy Pfrimmer has also had superb training in young artist programs throughout the United States.
She was awarded young artist contracts with following opera companies: Florida Grand Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Virginia Opera, and was a singer with New Orleans Opera’s MetroPelican Opera. Her teachers have been Philip Frohnmayer, Arthur Levy, Mary Henderson-Buckley, Martina Arroyo, Patricia O'Neill and Sandra Kungle.

In addition to performing, Pfrimmer is a dedicated teacher, currently serving on the faculty of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.


Contact:

amy_pfrimmer@yahoo.com

 

Suggested Repertoire

Opera

Bizet                 Micaela/Carmen

Britten               Female Chorus/The Rape of Lucretia      

Britten               Governess/Jessel in The Turn of the Screw

Floyd                Susannah

Lehár                Lisa/The Land of Smiles

Lehár                Hannah/The Merry Widow

Leoncavallo       Nedda/I Pagliacci                      

Mozart              Fiordiligi/Cosi fan tutte

Mozart              Pamina/Die Zauberflöte

Mozart              Donna Anna/Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni

Offenbach         Heroines/Les Contes d’Hoffman 

Puccini             Lauretta/Nella  in Gianni Schicci

Puccini             Mimi/Musetta in La Bohème

Puccini             Cio- Cio San/Madama Butterfly  

Puccini             Manon Lescaut             

Puccini             Suor Angelica               

Puccini             Tosca                          

Puccini             Liu/Turandot                             

J. Strauss         Rosalinda/Die Fledermaus

Verdi                 Violetta/La Traviata       

Verdi                 Leonora/Il Trovatore      

Verdi                 Gilda/Rigoletto

Wagner             Freia/Das Rheingold      

Weill                 Anna Maurrant/Rose Maurrant in Street Scene

Concert


Bach                  Magnificat

                         Wachet Auf

                         B Minor Mass

Barber               Knoxville Summer of 1915

Beethoven         Ninth Symphony

                        Missa Solemnis

                        Mass in C

Brahms             Ein Deutsches Requiem

Brubeck            La Fiesta de la Posada

                        To Hope! A Celebration

Fauré                Requiem

Händel              Messiah

                        Laudate Pueri Dominum

                        Judas Maccabeaus

Haydn               Lord Nelson Mass

                        Creation

                        Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo

Mahler              Symphony #2

                       Symphony #4

Mendelssohn     Elijah

Mozart              Requiem

                        Solemn Vespers

                        Exsultate Jubilate

                        Regina Coeli

Orff                  Carmina Burana

Rutter               Magnificat

                        Requiem

R. Strauss        Four Last Songs

Verdi                Requiem  

Photo credits: Butterfly/Smith; Fledermaus/Dilyard, Concert/Besser

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