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Ann Tedards
(541) 346-3788
tedards@uoregon.edu

Soprano Ann Tedards is an associate professor of voice, associate dean, and director of graduate studies at the School of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Sweet Briar College, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Other studies include the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, Goldovsky Opera Institute, and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She has studied voice with Emmy Joseph (New York), Jean Stawski (Munich) and Phyllis Bryn-Julson (Baltimore) and opera performance with Judith Raskin (NewYork).

Her professional career began as a soloist with the New York Pro Musica Antiqua, touring the United States extensively. Her debut as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio at Ulmer Theater (Germany) launched her European operatic career. Other opera engagements include Stadttheaters Klagenfurt and Baden bei Wien, Theater Heilbronn, Princeton Opera Theater and The Washington Opera.

Equally at home on the concert stage, Tedards has appeared as a soloist in Europe with the Vienna Symphony, Austrian Radio Orchestra, Vienna Choir Boys, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Ensemble Moderne (Berlin), and Ensemble Kontrapunkte (Vienna), and in the United States with the Washington Bach Consort, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Oregon Repertory Singers, Amor Artis Orchestra (New York), Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and Seattle Philharmonic. Solo festival appearances include the Carinthian Summer Festival in Austria, Oregon Bach Festival, Viennese “Schubertiade” and the Festival Music Society of Indiana.

Her chamber music experience includes performances with Clemencic Ensemble, Ensemble Melkus, Wiener Bachsolisten, the Barocktrio Wien, the Orpheus Ensemble (Salzburg), The Third Angle (Portland), the Chamber Ensemble of Notre Dame (Baltimore) and the Classical Consort (Seattle).

Tedards is a recipient of the Mozart Prize from the “Francisco Vinas” International Voice Competition (Barcelona), First Prize in the “92nd Street Y” Orchestra Competition (New York) and winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Southeast Competition. She has recorded for the Musical Heritage Society, Orfeo, and Soundspells labels, and published a biography of the singer, Marian Anderson.