My name is Felicity Salmon. I’m a Soprano & Teaching Artist based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Soprano Felicity Salmon has been praised for her “brightly focused” sound, and the “deep sensitivity” she brings to her performances (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Ms. Salmon has performed with Cantata Singers since 2013 and has appeared as a soloist with the ensemble in both the Concert and Chamber Series. In addition to performing, Ms. Salmon has taught privately since 2004, and is a teaching artist for the Classroom Cantatas educational outreach program, which gives Boston Public School children the experience of composing and performing their own songs.
Originally from British Columbia, Canada, Ms. Salmon completed her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music and moved to Hawaii for undergraduate work in music and theater. While there she toured as a soloist and actress with multiple performing groups traveling extensively through China, Taiwan, Australia, Samoa, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Ms. Salmon studied under William Cotten at the Boston Conservatory, completing a Master of Music in Voice Performance. Her graduate studies took her to Urbania, Italy, and the Dante Alighieri Scuola di Lingua for language study for an intensive music and language program through the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied voice with Dr. Joyce Farwell.
Ms. Salmon has served as president of the Cantata Singers chorus, volunteers in the Newton Public Schools Creative Arts and Sciences Committee, and resides in Newtonville with her filmmaker partner and their three children.
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Maya Angelou
Boston Musical Intelligencer
"… if the composer intended for this part to be a seraph of sorts calling down to the battlefields, no singer could have been better suited to it than soprano Felicity Salmon. Her strong, crystalline voice shone angelically through the instrumentation with just enough passion and innocence to walk the line between humanity and divinity. It was an inspired gesture that Vaughan Williams chose to close the entire work with one last bit of quietly intense pleading for an end to all the violence."
Boston Classical Review
"Felicity Salmon, Amy Lieberman and Brian Church sang with a tight, transparent blend and a sense of conviction matched by the instrumental choir."
Boston Musical Intelligencer
"The brightly focused soprano Felicity Salmon (soprano) continued with Liebeszauber, from the same opus (no. 3)."
The Boston Globe
"With soprano Felicity Salmon in charge of Emily Hall’s “Stillborn,” the lyrics floated through the simple melody as if grief-dazed."
Boston Classical Review
"...soprano Felicity Salmon lofted a line that flowered into ringing high notes while the orchestra supported her with plush accompaniment."
Singing with Cantata Singers Chamber group, at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, under the direction of Amy Lieberman. Photo Credit Martha Stewart, 2016
Singing with Cantata Singers, under the direction of Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez. October, 2021
Singing with Cantata Singers, under the direction of Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez. October, 2021
