Meet Madison Spahn

Madison Spahn, soprano, has been praised for her “golden tone, effortlessly floating over the choir” (Boston Classical Review). Her recent operatic productions include Le nozze di Figaro (Barbarina) and Robert Ward’s The Crucible (Mercy Lewis) with the Miami Music Festival and Albert Herring (Emmie) with Chicago Summer Opera. As a concert soloist, she has recently appeared in Kodaly’s Missa Brevis and Tarik O’Regan’s Triptych with The Boston Cecilia and Martín Palmeri’s Misatango with Key Chorale (Sarasota, Florida). Other concert appearances include Fauré’s Requiem with the Duke University Chorale and Frank Ticheli’s Angels in the Architecture with the Duke University Wind Symphony, under Ticheli’s baton.

Equally comfortable in non-classical styles, Ms. Spahn performed in 2018 and 2020 as a soloist for Key Chorale’s choral bluegrass concert “American Roots.” She has also performed as a vocalist with the Duke Jazz Ensemble.

Ms. Spahn has been an active church musician since 2016, and currently acts as soprano section leader at Grace Church in New York, under the direction of Patrick Allen. From 2020 to 2022, she appeared frequently as a soprano section leader and soloist at Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill (Nigel Potts, director) and Trinity Church in Copley Square (Richard Webster, director).

Ms. Spahn holds an M.M. in Voice Performance from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a B.A. in Music from Duke University. In 2022, she began a Ph.D. program in Musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center, with a research focus on 19th and 20th century vocal music, gender and sexuality studies, fin-de-siècle French music, and female composers. She is additionally a freelance writer and frequently writes feature articles for the marketing department at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.