Mezzo-Soprano Sherri Phelps, is an active soloist throughout the Southeast. Her credits include: two roles from Puccini’s Il trittico– La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica and Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, Marcellina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and the title character in The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Madame Pernelle in Kirke Mecham’s Tartuffe, and Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music. She performed with the Aspen Opera Center singing the role of Myrtle in Still Life. She has performed the mezzo-soprano solos in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with the Lexington Philharmonic, and the role of Emilia in Otello with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. She often concertizes in Northern California singing the world premiere of Craig Bohmler’s song Keys as well as the rest of his song cycle Songs of Loss with the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose under the baton of Emily Ray.

Ms. Phelps’s other appearances include several performances with Fremont, California’s Music at the Mission Concert Series which have included Chaplin in Concert, Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat with Roscoe Lee Brown, and Existentialist Poetry, Zen Buddhism & the American Song. Ms. Phelps has sung under the renown Jonathan Wilcox, and Sir Neville Marinner and has recorded a role in Aaron Copeland’s Tenderland with Kirk Trevor. Currently, she is specializing in the songs of composer John Jacob Niles and performing the multimedia recital of his music Written in the Stars with pianist Dr. Rachel Taylor. She is also an active teacher and currently teaches voice at Eastern Kentucky University and Asbury University, where she also directs the Opera Workshop.

A native of Morgantown, KY she currently resides in Lexington, KY where she has completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kentucky as a student of Gail Robinson after having received her Masters in Voice from the Juilliard School, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Western Kentucky University.