Natalie Conte>, soprano, has recently completed her Master of Music degree at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University where she also earned her Bachelor of Music degree. There, she was the recipient of the Annie Wentz prize and the George Castelle Memorial Award for excellence in performance, and the Azalia H. Thomas award for superior marks in the field of music theory. At Peabody she studied with Phyllis Bryn-Julson and John Shirley-Quirk.  She has had the opportunity to work with coaches and directors such as Thomas Grubb, Vera Danchenko-Stern, and Garnett Bruce and her current teacher is Medea Namoradze of Shenandoah University.

     Natalie has performed a great deal as a soloist in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore area such as at the Russian Embassy, with Opera Camerata of Washington, with the Annapolis Chorale, and at the State Department where she was hailed as an ethereal soprano.  Aside from various recital appearances, Natalie has been involved in the Peabody opera department and has performed the roles of Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, Noémie in Massenet's Cendrillon, Blonde in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, among others. In summers past Natalie has attended Operafestival di Roma, where she performed the Countess in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Suor Genovieffa in Puccini's opera Suor Angelica. As well as locally, Ms. Conte has performed in Rome, St. Petersburg, and Moscow.