AMANDA CRIDER, MEZZO-SOPRANO

Amanda Crider has been recognized for her “superbly clear diction and warmly burnished timbre” (South Florida Classical Review). As a busy soloist and recitalist, Crider has appeared regularly with Seraphic Fire, Apollo’s Fire, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2007 in Handel’s Messiah and returned the following season for Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. She has performed in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Bach’s B minor Mass, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Britten’s Phaedra, Bach’s St. John Passion, Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony and Ravel’s Chansons Madécasses, and has been a featured recitalist on the Trinity Church Concerts at One Series and with Five Boroughs Music Festival. Ms. Crider is a grant recipient from the Pittsburgh Concert Society and the Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition. Crider is the Founder and Artistic Director of Miami’s Art Song concert series, IlluminArts.