K r i s t i n H a l l i d a y Lyric Soprano kristinhalliday@yahoo.com
Kristin Halliday, a native of Potomac, Maryland is a
n award winning lyric soprano and actress who performs in concert and recital throughout the United States and abroad. Noted for her "uncommon voice of great beauty," and "exceptionally moving interpretation of almost all kinds of music," Ms. Halliday has performed at the Altenburg Music Festival in Altenburg, Germany and was featured in recital in Iceland, with some of the country's premier instrumentalists and its leading visual artist, Eirikur Smith. Ms. Halliday was a recipient of the Peggy and Yale Gordon Award in the Rosa Ponselle Competition and advanced in both the Marjorie Lawrence and the Freiderich Schorr Competitions. She was also a winner of the 2007 Gretchen Hood Vocal Competition.
Ms. Halliday is the Founder/Director of the Academy for the Performing Arts which provides professional training in voice and theatre with a current roster of over 40 singers. Under her tutelage, Ms. Halliday's students have been honored with the
Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts, Washington Post Performing Artist Scholarships, C
appies Awards including BEST VOCALIST, NAACP Act-SO Awards, Golden Voices of America Award, Foundation Scholarships, MCPS Singing and Theatre Awards, Superintendant Performing Artist Awards, University Scholarships
and numerous other honors and awards.
Students
who have trained with Ms. Halliday have been accepted to continue their performing arts education at such institutions as the
Manhattan
School of Music; the Stella Adler and
Meisner Studios at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; Northwestern University; Indiana University; Carnegie Mellon; Penn State; Webster College; Miami, Syracuse, Emerson, USC, UMD, UM, and others.
Ms. Halliday has prepared singers for the following roles: Tony in WEST SIDE STORY; Mimi, Angel, and Roger in RENT; Velma, Roxie, Amos, Billy Flynn, and Mamma Morton in CHICAGO; Audrey in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS; Gaston, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Jean Val Jean and Javert in LES MISERABLES, Fred Graham and Billy Calhoun in KISS ME KATE, Sky Masterson in GUYS AND DOLLS, Don Lockwood in SINGING IN THE RAIN, Reno Sweeney, Hope Harcourt, Moonface Martin, and Bonnie Latour in ANYTHING GOES, Domina in A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, Queenie in HONK, Jack in INTO THE WOODS, The Engineer, John, and Gigi in MISS SAIGON, numerous roles in Gilbert and Sullivan productions and OTHERS.
Ms. Halliday studies professionally with Betti McDonald in New York . As part of her studies with Ms. McDonald, she received certification from the Institute for Musical Arts in vocal pedagogy.
