Carmen Pelton

Associate Professor of Voice
cpelton@umich.edu
734-764-6512

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.M.; Lois Fisher
The Eastman School, Performer's Certificate; Jan DeGaetani
The Britten-Pears School, Aldeburgh, England, (advanced training); Murray Perahia

Soprano Carmen Pelton has appeared in a wide range of works with orchestras, opera houses, chamber music groups, Equity drama theaters and Off-Broadway productions.  Conductors have included Robert Shaw, Jeffrey Tate, Donald Runnicles, Patrick Summers, Gerard Schwarz and Nicholas McGegan with such diverse groups as the San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Goodman Theater, the Smithsonian’s 21th-Century Consort, the New York Festival of Song and the Library of Congress.  Recent premieres include works by Mark Adamo at Carnegie Hall and Augusta Read Thomas at the Kennedy Center.  Ms. Pelton’s performances are on two recordings released this past year:  Barber's Knoxville:Summer of 1915 with Pro Musica Orchestra and the Naxos recording of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, which recently won several Grammy awards, as well as one of Robert Shaw’s last recordings with the Atlanta Symphony: Barber, Bartok and Vaughan-Williams, which won a Grammy for Best Classical Album of the Year.  She is also on the faculty at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. 

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