About Erin
Erin Chenard is a lyric soprano and voice teacher with 14 years teaching experience. Erin is a professional member of NATS, and has served on the voice faculty of the Portland Conservatory of Music, Bay Chamber Music School, and the University of Maine at Augusta.
Erin’s voice students have successfully auditioned for District and All-State honors choruses as well as NATS song festivals, been cast in musical theatre productions, and gained acceptance into college and university voice performance programs. Erin is a graduate of Westminster Choir College and the University of Southern Maine School of Music and holds an M.M. in Voice Pedagogy and Performance.
Erin sings professionally throughout Maine and New England. She regularly performs with the St. Mary Schola, an early music ensemble devoted to the performance of master works from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. She has appeared as soloist with the Maine Pro Musica Orchestra, the Calderwood Consort, Music’s Quill, the Downeast Singers and Amethyst Chamber Ensemble; she sang in the Westminster Symphonic Choir in the New York Philharmonic’s 2006 broadcast of Handel’s Messiah and has appeared at the Boston and Portland Early Music Festivals. She made her Boston debut in 2008 at Jordan Hall in Yeomen of the Guard with the Bostonians Opera Company. Operatic roles include First Lady in The Magic Flute, Euridice in L’Orpheo and Phyllis in Iolanthe. Erin is also a founding member of the dance band Butterscotch Sock Hop.
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