About Rachael

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"Clarion trumpet in an elegant throat! ...What else could happen but that blaze of beautiful sound??? Yum."

- Linda Ade Brand

stage director

Mezzo-soprano Rachael Colman is a dedicated interpreter of concert and chamber music across the United States. Her flexible voice and sensitive musicality have earned her roster positions with nationally-recognized ensembles including the GRAMMY®-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Spire Chamber Ensemble. Her performances have taken her to Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Symphony Hall in Boston, Helzburg Hall and the historic Folly Theater in Kansas City, and the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas.

"Her execution is pristine and her artistic interpretation informed and inspired."

- Eric Holtan

conductor and music director,

True Concord Voices & Orchestra

Rachael is best known for her passionate performances of the works of Purcell, Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Rossini. She has been a featured soloist in Bach’s St. John Passion and Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, both in collaboration with the Kansas City Baroque Consortium and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory Singers. She has been a frequent guest of the Trinity Chamber Artists in Kansas City, with whom she sings as a soloist in their Bach Cantata Series, and has been a performer of choice in the Bach’s Lunch series at UMKC. Equally at home on the operatic stage, her roles include Angelina (La Cenerentola), Nancy (Albert Herring), Meg (Little Women), the Baker's Wife (Into the Woods), Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Prince Charming (Cendrillon), and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), among others.

Rachael has performed regional and world premieres of more than twenty new works. She is an original member of the new group Chorosynthesis in Seattle, WA, at whose inaugural concert she sang as primary soloist for Lansing McLoskey’s Zealot Canticle, a West Coast premiere. She debuted Derek M. Jenkin’s complete song cycle Nach Raum und Zeit as part of the Musica Nova series at UMKC, and has participated in workshops with Steve Reich (performances of Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ) and John Corigliano (performances of Fern Hill and scenes from The Ghosts of Versailles). An advocate for improvisational vocal music as well, during her study at the OperaWorks program in Los Angeles she created the role of Soap Opera Diva B.B. Worthington in an original, completely improvised three-act opera, Pride & Promiscuity. Rachael has lent her voice to a special recording project, Teach Me Your Way: Selections from a Year of Psalms. The project covered forty-one original psalm settings by Christopher Bartlette as written specifically for St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Waco, TX.

Rachael is a two-time award winner in the Kansas City Musical Club competition (2014, 2015), a Rose Award Winner in the annual Sigma Alpha Iota musical competition (2013), first-place winner in the MasterWorks Vocal Competition in Winona Lake, IN (2012), a semi-finalist in the Young Patronesses of the Opera competition in Miami, FL (2015), and she is a three-time recipient of a career grant from the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Women's Council Graduate Assistant Fund (2013-2015). She holds degrees from Baylor University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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As of April 2018, Rachael was invited to join the ranks of the United States Air Force as a vocalist with the Heritage of America Band. Stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, she performs as one of the lead singers in their rock band Full Spectrum. She also enjoys guest performances with the Heritage of America Concert Band and the band's resident jazz ensemble, Rhythm in Blue.

Rachael also freelances as a graphic designer, specializing in the needs of her fellow musicians. Click here to learn more about Rachael Colman Designs.

last updated 12.18.18

"Soloist Rachael Colman... sang well, her clear notes sailing effortlessly over the male voices with clarity of tone and precise intonation."

​- KCMetropolis

Alto Rhapsody with Musica Vocale (Kansas City, MO)

 Repertoire

Ensemble Rosters

True Concord Voices & Orchestra (GRAMMY® nominee) | Eric Holtan, conductor

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Handel & Haydn Society | Harry Christophers, conductor

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Santa Fe Desert Chorale | Joshua Habermann, conductor

Spire Chamber Ensemble | Ben Spalding, conductor

Chorosynthesis Singers | Jeremiah Selvey & Wendy K. Moy, conductors

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Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble | Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

Major Works (solos)

J. S. Bach

Beethoven

Brahms

Britten

Handel

Vaughan Williams

Cantatas 11, 12, 22, 70

Mass in B minor*

St. John Passion

9th Symphony*

Alto Rhapsody

Rejoice in the Lamb

Messiah

Serenade to Music

Adamo

Berlioz

Britten

Cavalli

Corigliano

Gilbert & Sullivan

Massenet

Menotti

D. Moore

Monteverdi

Mozart

Puccini

Purcell

J. Strauss

Rossini

Sondheim

Little Women

Beatrice et Benedict

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Albert Herring

L'Ormindo

The Ghosts of Versailles

The Pirates of Penzance

Cendrillon

Werther

The Medium

Gallantry

L'incoronazione di Poppea

Così fan tutte

Le nozze di Figaro

Gianni Schicchi

Madama Butterfly

Dido & Aeneas

Die Fledermaus

La Cenerentola

Company

Into the Woods

A Little Night Music

Meg

Beatrice*

Oberon
Nancy

Nerillo

Cherubino*

Susanna*

Kate

Le Prince Charmant

Charlotte*

Mrs. Nolan

Lola

Ottavia*

Dorabella*

Cherubino

Zita

Suzuki*

Dido

Ida

Angelina

Jenny*

Baker's Wife

Cinderella*

Charlotte*

Major Works (chorister)

J. S. Bach

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Beethoven

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Bernstein

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Brahms

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Bresnik

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Britten

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Copland

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Corigliano

Durufle

Faure

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Grechaninov

Handel

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Haydn

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Lang

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Monteverdi

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Mozart

Orff

Rutter

Tchaikovsky

Vivaldi

Cantatas 50, 149

Easter Oratorio

Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV 229)

Magnificat

St. Matthew Passion

9th Symphony

Choral Fantasy

Missa Solemnis

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Chichester Psalms

Missa Brevis

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Requiem

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Passions of Bloom

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Ceremony of Carols

Rejoice in the Lamb

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In the Beginning

Fern Hill

Requiem

Requiem

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Passion Week

Dettingen Te Deum

Dixit Dominus

The King Shall Rejoice

Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened

Messiah

Semele

Lord Nelson Mass

the little match girl passion

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Vespers of 1610

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Requiem

Carmina Burana

Gloria

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1812 Overture

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 Schedule

Recent Engagements

view past seasons

2017

November

2 - 5

True Concord | Lang LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION

Tucson, AZ

 Media

Una voce poco fa

Il barbiere di Siviglia (G. Rossini)

Alto Rhapsody, op. 53

J. Brahms

with Musica Vocale, Kansas City, MO

Nancy's Aria and Duet

Albert Herring (B. Britten)

Things Change, Jo

Little Women (M. Adamo)

Non più mesta

La Cenerentola (G. Rossini)

Faites-lui mes aveux

Faust (C. Gounod)

Gallery

 Contact

Rachael Colman

+1 (832) 755-7747  |  colman.rach@gmail.com

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