Performance Biography
Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine is acclaimed for her “utterly thrilling, agile voice” and praised for bringing “pathos, beauty, and heartbreaking skill” to her performances. She has performed on the stages of Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Opera Theater, Austin Opera, Utah Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and on the concert stage with the Madison Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, The National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, and the Santa Fe Symphony, among many others.
An accomplished interpreter of Mozart opera, Guarrine has been seen at the Austin, Utah, Minnesota, and the Florentine Operas in her signature role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, and “delivered a lovely Pamina, singing with warmth, depth, and relaxed power” in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Additional career highlights include Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina at Opera Omaha, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Saratoga, and a return to Minnesota Opera for Strauss’ Arabella, where she “traversed the Fiakermilli’s coloratura flights with ease and clarity” (Opera News).
Her diverse performance repertoire ranges from the masterworks of Bach, Handel, and Mozart, to modern works such as the roles of Xanthe/Aphrodite in Mark Adamo's Lysistrata and Maria Celeste Philip Glass' Galileo Galilei. In the fall of 2017 she created the role of “Fury” in Julian Wachner’s Rev.23 for performances in Boston at John Hancock Hall, New York at Trinity Wall Street, and National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Dr. Guarrine’s debut album, Transparent Boundaries: Songs Set to the Words of Dickinson, Whitman & Emerson, featuring newly commissioned works by Lori Laitman, Daron Hagen, and Scott Gendel, debuted in 2020 on the PARMA label and all streaming platforms, and was featured in numerous publications including Gramophone Magazine. She is frequently seen in concert, as a collaborator at chamber music festivals, and in recital, and proudly serves as Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Teaching Biography
A native of Peoria, IL, Dr. Jamie-Rose Guarrine holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University, and received her MM and DMA in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead-Witter School of Music as a Distinguished Collins Fellow where she studied with Jim Doing.
Jamie-Rose is an alumna of some of the country’s most prestigious young artist programs; the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program, Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Artist, and as a Resident Artist at the Minnesota Opera. While a student in Madison in 2001, she joined the American Guild of Musical Artists for her first union engagement with the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. With over twenty years of experience in the field, Dr. Guarrine brings a rich and varied performance background to her teaching, and has adjudicated competitions and presented masterclasses to young singers throughout the United States. In 2015, she joined faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she serves as Associate Professor of Voice and teaches a studio of undergraduate and graduate voice students.
Dr. Guarrine is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singers, and an alumna of the 2016 NATS Internship Program. An active adjudicator, she currently serves as the NATS Massachusetts District Governor.
In addition to her UMass Amherst professorship, Dr. Guarrine is a faculty Artist-in-Residence at the Sarteano Choral Workshop which takes place in an idyllic Tuscan town each summer. A festival for vocal chamber musicians, choral conductors, music educators, and choral singers, Dr. Guarrine teaches individual lessons, a mini-intensive day, as well as a daily Voice Class which addresses technical topics and strategies for singers at various points in their vocal career; discussing vocal topics educators encounter in the classroom, technical strategies for working with various voice types, and promoting general vocal health in a choral setting. The SCW festival is a wonderful opportunity for music educators to spend time and care nurturing their own vocal performance goals, vocal health, and technique, after spending the school year giving so much of themselves to their teaching. SCW attendees can apply for graduate and professional development credits through the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Short Biography
Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine is acclaimed for her “utterly thrilling, agile voice” and praised for bringing “pathos, beauty, and heartbreaking skill” to her performances. She has performed on the stages of Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Opera Theater, Austin Opera, Utah Opera, Madison Opera, Fort Worth Opera, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, The National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, the Santa Fe Symphony, among many others.
Her diverse performance repertoire ranges from the masterworks of Bach, Mozart, and Donizetti, to modern works such as Mark Adamo's Lysistrata and Philip Glass' Galileo Galilei, and she recently performed in the world Premiere of Julian Wachner’s Rev.23 in Boston and New York. Dr. Guarrine’s debut album, Transparent Boundaries: Songs set to the Words of Dickinson, Whitman, & Emerson, featuring newly commissioned works by Lori Laitman and Scott Gendel debuted in 2020 on the PARMA label and all streaming platforms, with reviews featured in numerous publications including Gramophone Magazine. Dr. Guarrine is an alumna of the UWMadison Mead-Witter School of Music, and proudly serves as Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.