Nancy Peery Marriott lyric soprano- Concert at Anderson House FREE
Mrs. Marriott is the wife of a 1965 Harvard Business School graduate.
Nancy Peery Marriott, lyric soprano, accompanied by David Chapman, piano, performs selections by Schubert, Mahler, Dvorak, Quilter and Romberg.
All concerts begin at 1:30 PM and last approximately an hour. A reception with punch and cookies as well as tours of the hisoric house museum are offered following each concert.
The doors open at 1:00 and seating is on a first come, first served basis.
Children are welcome to attend.
Nancy Peery Marriott
Lyric Soprano
Nancy Peery Marriott has appeared extensively in concert, oratorio and recital throughout the United States. In the Washington, DC area alone, she has performed at The National Theatre, The Barns at Wolf Trap, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Music Center at Strathmore, Constitution Hall, Anderson House and St. Matthew’s Cathedral, as well as the embassies of Japan, Germany, Great Britain and Sweden.
Ms. Marriott has been the featured guest soloist with the Mormon Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has appeared as soloist with the Tabernacle Choir in several live performances broadcast internationally from Salt Lake City. She made her Utah Symphony Orchestra debut as the soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Ms. Marriott has performed at the University of Utah, George Washington University, Southern Virginia University, Brigham Young University, the University of Alaska, and Harvard University. Equally at home on the opera stage, Nancy has sung Adele (Die Fledermaus), Musetta (La Bohéme), Sonia (The Merry Widow), Oscar (the pants role in A Masked Ball), and Lucy (The Telephone) among others. Ms. Marriott has also performed in numerous leading roles with the Washington Savoyard Company, including Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, The Gondoliers, Trial by Jury, Mikado, and Ruddigore.
A versatile performer, Ms. Marriott’s engagements include two appearances at Boston’s Symphony Hall, soprano soloist for the annual Messiah “sing-in” with the National Symphony Orchestra, frequent guest artist for the Society of the Cincinnati’s Saturday Concert Series in Washington, D.C., a return to the Longy Conservatory of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts to present the inaugural recital for the Longy Alumni Concert Series, appearances with the Heifetz International Music Institute in New Hampshire, featured soloist in a concert performance of Jerome Kern’s Showboat with the Great Waters Festival Orchestra of New Hampshire, a solo performance for Opera International’s Opera Gala Concert at the Music Center at Strathmore Hall in Rockville, Maryland and a recital in the Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church’s Concert Series in Naples, Florida. She was also the featured soloist at the Jerusalem Center in Jerusalem, Israel.
Ms. Marriott has participated in the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and is a regular performer in the Alaska Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks. She has also served as a panelist for the National Opera Society Symposium on Women in Opera and Theatre at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Recent concerts and recitals include her debut at Carnegie Hall with famed conductor Dr. Craig Jessop, as well as performances at the Alaska Opera Arts Festival, the National Theatre, the Society of the Cincinnati’s Anderson House Concert Series, as well as the National Gallery of Art Concert Series, the University of Utah’s Camerata Evening and the National Chamber Ensemble. Engagements for 2012 include performances with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Anderson House Spring Concert series, the Washington Savoyards 40th Anniversary Gala, participating in the Amalfi Coast Music Institute in Italy and a special performance with world famous conductor Dr. Craig Jessop honoring Queen Elizabeth on her Diamond Jubilee.
Originally from Palo Alto, California, Ms. Marriott received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah. She has completed additional studies at the Longy School of Music and the University of Maryland School of Music.