Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Classical Voice Faculty: Tamara Hardesty

Tamara Hardesty, soprano, is described by noted music critic and Editor of the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times James R. Oestreich (who is also a Steinhardt Music faculty member in Music Criticism) as "...a particular joy, singing with a clear, agile soprano and spinning out the coloratura with ease." In addition, Andrew Porter wrote in the New Yorker that Professor Hardesty "...gave pleasure in many gentle, fluent, well-shaped passages."

Professor Hardesty's operatic roles include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflote, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, and Adele in Die Fledermaus, with Connecticut Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera's Merola Program, Western Opera Theater Tours, Whitewater Opera in Indiana, Sorg Opera in Ohio, Lake George Opera in New York, Sarasota Opera in Florida, L'Opera Francais de New York, Dicapo Opera, and Bronx Opera in New York City.

She recently made her Kennedy Center debut performing the soprano solo in the Monteverdi Vespers with the Washington Chorus. She has also been a featured soloist in oratorios (Faure Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, Poulenc Gloria, Rutter Magnificat, Schubert Mass in A flat Major and Mass in G) and in concerts with the Westchester Oratorio Society in New York, the St. Joseph Symphony in Missouri, the Oskaloosa Symphony Orchestra and the Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra in Iowa, and the Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey.

She has given lieder recitals in New York City at Steinway Hall, Klavierhaus, Yamaha Studios, St. Peter's Church, St. Paul's Chapel, and in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Professor Hardesty has given master-classes in connection with the Hartford Symphony Mentoring Program and a workshop for vocal performance majors at the University of Connecticut. Her recent directing credits include the University of Connecticut Huskies on Stage production of Mozart's Impresario, for which she wrote an original updated script. Professor Hardesty earned her B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music, her M.M. from Curtis Institute of Music, and is now completing doctoral studies at the University of Connecticut.

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