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telephone: (510) 527-3748
email: acdudley@earthlink.net
Anna Carol Dudley has had a distinguished career as a recitalist and as a soloist, particularly with many West Coast orchestras, choruses and chamber groups, and is pleased to be still having it. Born on Maui into a singing family, she received her early musical education in churches and schools, first in Honolulu and later in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. She graduated from Oberlin College in history, had an Oberlin fellowship for two years in India, where she taught English and studied South Indian music, and returned to Oberlin for two years to receive a Master’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Her professional career began in Berkeley, where she was a soloist at the First Congregational Church and sang works by students and faculty of the University of California. She was involved in the beginnings of the early music revival, singing Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music with Donald Pippin at the Old Spaghetti Factory and being trained in early music performance practice by scholars at Berkeley and Stanford.
She has toured in India and Afghanistan for the United States Information Service, and for a number of years toured extensively in the U.S. and Canada, as a recitalist and with Laurette Goldberg, Judith Nelson and Rella Lossy in an early music ensemble called “Tapestry” (a name which has recently been adopted by another group). She has been a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic orchestra and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and at the Berkeley Festival of early music. A past president of the San Francisco Early Music Society and director emerita of the Society’s annual Baroque Music and Dance Workshop, she has also served as Music Director of the Junior Bach Festival Association.
In giving premieres to many 20th and 21st century works, including a number that have been written for her, she has performed with most of the Bay Area’s contemporary music ensembles, including Earplay, Composers Inc., the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Kronos Quartet, Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, San Francisco State’s Pro Musica Nova, Sacramento’s Music Now, Sounds New, and the Mills College Performing Group. Her opera performances include the title roles in Handel’s “Semele” and “Susanna,” produced at the University of California, Berkeley, Costanza in “The Abduction from the Seraglio” and Madame Herz in “The Impresario” by Mozart, Brangaene in Frank Martin’s “Le Vin Herbe,” and leading roles in the world premieres of Vivian Fine’s “Women in the Garden” and Charles Shere’s “Bride Stripped Bare.” She has recorded for CRI and 1750 Arch Records; her most recent recording is of “Sibylline Fragments” by John Patrick Thomas (2004, Necessary Singing, GEMA).
Ms. Dudley has taught and directed Baroque operas at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, was on the music faculty of San Francisco State University for 18 years, and now is on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and she writes music reviews for the San Francisco Classical Voice website (www.sfcv.org).