Natalie Campbell

Biography 

Natalie Campbell, soprano, teaches voice at Augustana University. She earned a master's degree in vocal performance from the University of South Dakota (USD), where she studied with Dr. Brandon Hendrickson. While at USD, she was the winner of the university's annual concerto competition and performed the roles of Dido in Purcell's "Dido" and Aeneas and Monica in Menotti's "The Medium." She also earned a Bachelor of Music in piano and vocal music education from Houghton College in New York, and has pursued graduate studies in piano and chamber music at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Recent solo performances include the role of Adina in Donizetti's L'elixir d'amore, Mendelssohn's Psalm 42, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Orff's Carmina Burana, Vivaldi's Gloria, Faure's Requiem, Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Missa brevis and a Midwest premiere of Shawn Kirchner's Songs of Ascent. During the summer of 2018, Campbell was selected as a participant in the American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco, California, where she performed as a soloist in Bach's Mass in B Minor. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence for the inaugural International Choral Conducting Masterclass and Young Artist Program at Baylor University, as well as the Ensemble Intersection at the University of Minnesota in Morris, Minnesota. In the summer of 2022, she was a chorus section leader at the highly competitive Oklahoma Arts Institute for high school students held in the Quartz Mountains of Oklahoma. She has performed with many professional vocal ensembles, including The Rose Ensemble, Mercury Baroque, Cantare Houston, Transept and the Grammy-nominated South Dakota Chorale.