Sandra Tucker






Possessing a voice that has been described as "meltingly lyrical", Sandra Tucker received a Bachelor of Music and a Diploma in Opera from Wilfrid Laurier University under the direction of Victor Martens. She then went on to study with acclaimed soprano, Edith Wiens, at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg,Germany, for which she was the recipient of a generous Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Emerging Professional Artists and the York Celebration of the Arts Professional Artist Bursary. While in Germany she received an Artists Diploma and a Post Graduate Certifi cate and had the opportunity to work with such greats as Brigitte Fassbaender, Rudolph Jansen,Rudolph Piernay, Sara Walker, Sena Jurinac, James Wagner, Margaret Baker-Genovesi, and Ian Burnside

Her opera credits include Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Carolina in Il Matrimonio Segreto, Manon in Manon Lescaut, both the Countess and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, as well as major roles in Die Zauberflöte and Hansel and Gretel.

Her concert credits include appearances with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, the Barrie-Huronia Symphony, The Penderecki String Quartet, the Augsburg Orchestra, Dvorak's TeDeum and Rutter's Mass of the Children with the Cellar Singers, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Guelph Chamber Choir, Elijah with both the Menno Singers and the London Philharmonic Choir, Messiah at the Basilika in Ulm, Germany as well as with the Mennonite Mass Choir and as a soloist in the European Musik Festival at the Bach-Akademie in Stuttgart where she sang Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under the baton of Sir Helmuth Rilling.

Sandra has sung at the home of Glazunov for the heads of the Russian Embassy in Munich and has been invited to represent Canada at the International Festival of the Conservatories in St. Petersburg.

Her upcoming engagements include the role of Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute with Opera Kitchener, Richard Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder with the Wellington Winds, and Rutter's Mass of the Children with the Grand River Chorus. Sandra is also a 2007 Laureate of "Les Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques


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