Biography

Grace Wipfli, a soprano from Toledo, Ohio, has proven to be an impressive, charming and promising young soprano. A recent graduate, Ms. Wipfli obtained her Master of Music in Voice and Opera Performance from the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in June of 2019. While at Northwestern, she was a student of Sunny Joy Langton. She frequently appeared in Northwestern Opera Theater productions. Performance highlights include Sa femme in Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud, Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, and Ann Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. Other favorite credits include: The Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd, Kate in The Pirates of Penzance, the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Princess Puffer/Angela Prysock in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Ms. Wipfli’s undergraduate studies were completed at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio where she earned her Bachelor’s of Music in Voice Performance while studying with Jacqueline Barlow-Ware and singing with the award-winning Chapel Choir.

In the fall of 2019, she received an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the Wisconsin District. Ms. Wipfli was also a finalist for the 2019 Northwestern University Concerto/Aria Competition, in which she competed against students from all departments in the Bienen School of Music. While at Capital, she won the Concerto Competition in Performance in 2017. She was also awarded the Richard Miller Award for Fine Singing from the Ohio chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in her final year of undergraduate studies. As a devotee of the Great American Songbook repertoire, Ms. Wipfli was thrilled to be a national finalist in Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Competition as a senior in high school. Currently she shares her love of the Great American Songbook through an organization called Songs by Heart, where she sings for residents in memory care units around the Chicagoland area.

Ms. Wipfli has completed the Summer Concert Residency with Florentine Opera, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She, along with three other singers, spent 8 weeks performing throughout the city of Milwaukee in coffee shops, beer gardens, recital halls and retirement homes.

In March of 2020, Ms. Wipfli returned to the Carnegie Hall stage as the Soprano Soloist in Ralph Vaughan William’s Dona Nobis Pacem. She joined 4 choirs for the performance, two of which she is an alum - the Chapel Choir from Capital University and the Choraliers from Ottawa Hills High School.

While not singing, Grace spends her time watching Bon Appétit videos, solving jigsaw puzzles, and listening to the latest Emily King and Ailyn Pérez albums on repeat. 

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