Meet
Brianna
Brianna England is a performing artist from the US midwest. She found her love of music and art growing up in a musical family and attending ballet school, eventually training in their pre professional company. Brianna began taking private voice lessons at the age of fifteen, her development through lessons and stage experiences throughout her education led to her decision to pursue music as a career.
Expert in Vocal Performance & Pedagogy
Brianna holds voice performance degrees from Indiana University and Bowling Green State University, her master's is degree also includes specializations in voice science and pedagogy. During her degree work Brianna spent several months researching the ever challenging passaggio regions of the singing voice as well as the effects of emotional intent on phonation.
Brianna has been a featured soloist throughout the midwest and has appeared internationally. She enjoys singing with early music ensembles, new music ensembles, on the opera stage, in a ragtime band, and just for fun with her husband and toddler.
Recent Projects
Bloody Tambourine and the Musical Mafia - New Album
Backing Vocals & Washboard
After over ten years of playing together Bloody Tambourine and the Musical Mafia has finally released our first full length album. We are a spooky ragtime band that started out as the antagonists in a play. With a macabre catalogue of originals and covers Bloody Tambourine has been playing throughout the Midwest and is now coming to your ears for all eternity via our debut album.
Visionary
A new micro opera based on the life of Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard von Bingen is an abbess living a monastic life in the 12th century. She has experienced visions of a religious and allegorical nature since childhood, but for decades has told nearly no one. Recently, she experienced a vision of far greater magnitude than any other she ever had, in which a voice from Heaven tells her to speak and write about her visions so that others may hear and read them. She faces great self-doubt in accomplishing this task, which drives her to sickness. She talks to her closest collaborator and friend, Volmar, about this, who tells her that she has degraded herself in her mind from over-humility and must remember that she is indeed capable of the creative endeavor at hand. Volmar uplifts Hildegard’s mind and spirit, encouraging her to pursue her task of writing what will become her great visionary book, Scivias.
Steven Naylor, composer
Steven Naylor, librettist
Featuring Brianna England as Hildegard and Katherine Pracht Phares as Volmar
Steven Naylor, piano
Brianna England, director
Brianna England, costumer
Premiered: April 14th, 2021 at Bowling Green State University