Deborah Lifton
as Ellie May Chipley

Deborah Lifton, soprano

Soprano Deborah Lifton has won critical acclaim for her expressive musicality, imaginative interpretations and sweet, agile voice. Equally at home in opera, art song and musical theatre, Ms. Lifton’s most recent performances include the role of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and a concert at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City. Other solo appearances include Bernstein’s Songfest with the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra and the roles of Valencienne in The Merry Widow and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. Other operatic appearances include the title roles in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortileges, and Haydn’s Armida; Catherine in the New York Premiere of A Death in the Family (Albany Records), Beth in Little Women; Flora in Britten’s Turn of the Screw and Elisa in Mozart’s Il Re Pastore.

A recent winner of the David Adams Art Song Competition, Ms. Lifton has appeared in recital at Trinity Church in New York, as a soloist with the Long Island Philharmonic and in many other venues around the Tri-State area.

In April 2007, Deborah will be featured in a Composer’s Concert at the Yamaha Showroom in New York. Ms. Lifton was awarded a fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival and was a Resident Artist with the Ash-Lawn Highland Summer Festival and the Natchez Festival of Music. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and her voice can be heard on sound tracks for documentaries and nationally televised commercials. Ms. Lifton holds a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor’s degree in Voice, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan. She has additional training at the University of Miami at Salzburg, BayView Music Festival, and Rising Star Singers Festival and has studied voice with Barbara Honn, Inci Bashar, Phyllis Curtin, Dr. Robert White, Martin Katz, and Melody Racine. She is a former faculty member at New York University, Syracuse University and Mannes College of Music (Preparatory Division).

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