Biography
Cuban-American Soprano Ashley Nuñez's upcoming engagements include returning as an Emerging Artist in the Milnes VOICE Studio at the Savannah VOICE Festival with Sherrill Milnes, debuting the role of Lilian in the world premiere of The Eleanors by Jodi Goble and co-librettist Michael Ching. Her repertoire includes singing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Miami Music Festival, Foreign Woman in the world premiere of Ourland by Davies with the San José Chamber Orchestra, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Painted Sky Opera and Opera Amici, Manon in Massenet’s Manon with the Turner-Fischer Center for Opera at LSU and Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen with Vero Beach Opera.
Ms. Nuñez has recently received the Turner-Fischer Opera Scholarship and the Full Tuition Grant Award from LSU and was a featured soloist with Stetson University’s premier Concert Choir, Women’s Choir, and Choral Union.
She was named Second Place winner for the St. Petersburg Opera Guild Voice Competition and Finalist for the Music International Grand Prix competition in New York in 2023. She was also named Third Place winner in the Mobile Opera Rose Competition, a Finalist in the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston Vocal Competition, First Place winner of the Giffin Vocal Competition, the Wednesday Morning Music Club Voice Competition, and the Daytona Beach Choral Society Vocal Competition. Ashley received her Bachelor of Music Degree at Stetson University and her Master of Music degree at Louisiana State University in Vocal Performance.