Colleen Brooks, mezzo-soprano

Colleen Brooks, (District Katz Award Winner 2006, District Fifth Place Award Winner 2005), has recently become a mezzo! She will be making her mezzo-soprano debut this July as Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville this summer with Rising Star Singers in Rising Sun, Indiana. This weekend she is singing the soprano II part in Mozart's C Minor Mass in Cincinnati, OH. She will also be working with Thomas Pasatieri this coming August and performing several songs from his cycle LETTER TO WARSAW in College-Conservatory of Music's Grandin Music Festival. This past year Colleen tackled the soprano solo part of Stravinsky's ballet LES NOCES. In the year to come Colleen plans finish her doctorate degree at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati.