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Recent operatic highlights for Decker include a series of house and role debuts, including as Erika in Barber’s Vanessa for Festival Dei Due Mondi Spoleto, Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni with Staatsoper Stuttgart & Florentine Opera, Zephyrus in Die Grosse Stille at Staatsoper Hamburg, Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold at Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the title role in Glass’ La Belle et la Bete for Atlanta Opera, Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen for Cincinnati Opera and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Chicago Lyric Opera. Elsewhere Decker has sung Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte for Dallas Opera & Welsh National Opera, Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina with Les Violons du Roy, Isolier in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory for Chicago Lyric Opera, Miss Inkley in Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio for Cincinnati Opera, as well as covering Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola for Boston Lyric Opera & Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at The Metropolitan Opera.
Highlights on the concert platform include Messiah with Seattle Symphony Orchestra (Aram Demirjian) and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Mogens Dahl), Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the San Francisco Symphony and Orchestre de Paris (Esa Pekka Salonen), Mozart’s Requiem with the orchestra of Welsh National Opera (Tomáš Hanus), Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D at Washington National Cathedral (Steven Fox), Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Cincinnati College of Music and at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Colburn School (Earl Lee) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Grant Park Music Festival (Carlos Kalmar).
A passionate song interpreter, she was named one of Caramoor’s 2018 Schwab Vocal Rising Stars and was a participant in the inaugural season of Renée Fleming’s SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. She has given recitals produced by the Cincinnati Song Initiative, Pelican Hill recital series, the SOKA Performing Arts Center for Mahler Ruckert Lieder, and taken part in the ‘Beyond the Aria’ recital series at the Harris Theater, Chicago.
In 2019, Decker was the recipient of three prestigious scholarships: the Luminarts Fellowship, first place in the Musicians Club of Women Scholarship Competition, and a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. Further accolades include first place in the Three Arts Scholarship Fund Competition and The Macdowell Society Scholarship Award in Cincinnati, second place in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions-Great Lakes Region, first place in the CCM Corbett Competition, and the Encouragement award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions-Cincinnati District in 2016.
Decker was a young artist at the Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Utah Festival Opera, followed by time as an ensemble member of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other training programs include the Houston Grand Opera Young Artists Vocal Academy and Oberlin in Italy. She also participated in the first of Joyce DiDonato’s Masterclass Series at Carnegie Hall, streamed live on Medici.tv.
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