Darci Lobdell mezzo-soprano

Darci Lobdell has an undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico in vocal performance.  With choral groups including Quintessence, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Albuquerque Civic Chorus, and the University Concert Choir, she performed as a mezzo-soprano soloist in works such as John Rutter’s Dancing Day, Brahms’s Liebeslieder-Walzes, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Brad Ellingboe’s Requiem, and Corigliano’s Fern Hill.  She is featured as a soloist on the UNM Concert Choir’s recording of Brad Ellingboe’s Requiem.  In 2013, she performed as the mezzo-soprano soloist for Bach’s Magnificat with the New Mexico Philharmonic and Quintessence.

In 2009, she performed the opera role of Diana in La Calisto with La Musica Lirica, for her international debut in Italy.  Over the course of her undergraduate study with the UNM opera, she performed the roles of Miss Pinkerton in The Old Maid and the Thief, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, and Terentia in The Beautiful Bridegroom.  In 2015, Darci will be performing the role of Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen with the Boulder Symphony.

Darci is constantly exploring her love for music. At UNM, she studied under the direction of Leslie Umphrey.  She now studies with Nina Hinson in Santa Fe and with Adriana Hardy in Washington, D.C.  Currently, she is in a training program to become an Alexander Technique teacher with the Alexander Alliance.  She is also in a certification program with the Vox Mundi Project for Yoga of the Voice.  Darci teaches voice in Albuquerque at the New Mexico School of Music.