Our Team
Victoria Browers | Director
Soprano Victoria Browers is a versatile singer who is at home in various repertoires spanning four centuries. Active on the recital, concert, and opera stages, she has performed across the United States from New York to Los Angeles as well as in Germany. Some of her favorite opera roles include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Musetta in La Bohème and Governess in Turn of the Screw. Her recital repertoire runs the gamut from Rimsky-Korsakov to Libby Larsen; and her significant oratorio credits include soprano soloist in works by Bach, Brahms, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Pergolesi. An avid scholar and performer of art song as well as new music, Ms. Browers was a participant and is now honored to be part of the Artist Faculty at SongFest. She also teaches voice and song literature courses at Westminster Choir College and is on the faculty of the CoOPERAtive Program there.
Barbara Bonney | Artistic Advisor & Master Teacher
Barbara Bonney is widely recognized as a superlative recital and concert artist, and as one of the great Mozart and Strauss singers of her generation. She has made over 100 recordings with Decca, DGG, EMI, and Teldec, with the most important conductors and orchestras in the world today.
Ms. Bonney has appeared at the major opera houses and the most prestigious concert halls the world over. Her wide-ranging discography comprises sacred music, oratorio, opera, art song and chamber music. She has recorded in total 15 solo discs of art songs including songs by Schubert, Mozart, Strauss, Wolf and Mendelssohn, accompanied by the late pianist Geoffrey Parsons. Her recordings from London/Decca include a selection of American songs with André Previn at the piano, including Mr. Previn's Vocalise and Miss Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid, which was written for Ms. Bonney, Copland's Emily Dickinson Songs, Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, and Six Elizabethan Songs by Dominick Argento; Lieder by Robert and Clara Schumann, including Frauenliebe und -leben, with pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy; a Philips recording of Poulenc's comic opera, Les mamelles de Tirésias, with Seiji Ozawa and the Saito Kinen Orchestra; and a London/Decca disc of Richard Strauss Lieder with pianist Malcolm Martineau including the Vier Letzte Lieder. The Scandinavian disc, Diamonds in the Snow with Antonio Pappano, won the Grammophone Award for best solo vocal recording. Ms. Bonney has also recorded a disc of early Elizabethan songs with Christopher Hogwood, the Academy of Ancient Music.
Bonney received several honorary Doctorate degrees - from her Alma Mater, the University of New Hampshire, Bowdoin College in Maine, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the Brucknerhaus in Linz, Austria. She is a member of the prestigious Swedish Academy of Music, and an honorary citizen of the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. Ms. Bonney recently finished her appointment as Professor at the University Mozarteum and is teaching privately, both online and in person, in Salzburg, Austria
Dana Hammett | Language Instruction & Performance Anxiety Coaching
Dana Hammett is an American-born freelance classical singer, who has been living in Salzburg, Austria since 2012. Dana currently works as a core ensemble member of “The Sound of Austria” and enjoys a full concert schedule ranging from opera, operetta, and musical theatre to sacred music. In addition to singing, she has a wide range of teaching engagements from voice lessons, to business English and presentation training for professionals. Dana is currently pursuing a degree in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria. Her areas of focus include developing and strengthening voices through psychotherapeutic methods, as well as overcoming performance anxiety. In her free time, Dana enjoys yoga, bouldering, and cooking for friends.
Vanessa Hsieh | Pianst & Coach
Bio coming soon!