Soloist , mezzo-soprano

  A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance, Yolanda Denise Bryant has appeared with the Sarasota Opera Company as a participant in the Fall Outreach and Apprentice Arts Programs. She has sung Tituba in Ward’s The Crucible and Addie in Blitzstein’s Regina at the Lyric Opera of Cleveland and the 2nd Lady in The Magic Flute for Opera Company of North Carolina and Wildwood Performing Arts. Other roles include Mme. De la Haltiere in Cendrillon and the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors for the UNCG Lyric Opera. Her performance experience includes roles in scenes from Tales of Hoffman as Giulietta, Midsummer Night’s Dream as Hippolyta, Madame Butterfly as Suzuki, Eugene Onegin as Filipyevna, Iolanta as Martha, Marriage of Figaro as Marchellina. Yolanda has placed in the North Carolina Leontyne Price Competition and the Birmingham Opera Vocal Competition.

  Yolanda was one of five musicians selected to sing in the Collegiate Young Artists Recital sponsored by the National Association of Negro Musicians and has performed with the North Carolina Academic Chorale as a soloist in Vienna, Austria. Yolanda was presented with the Emerging Young Artist Award at the Opera Gala for Opera Company of North Carolina where she performed with world renowned Jennifer Larmore, Maureen O’Flynn, John Fowler and William Powers. Other opportunities afforded Yolanda through the Opera Company of North Carolina include performing for Denyce Graves and Luciano Pavarotti. Yolanda was a finalist in both the National Orpheus Competition held in Nashville, Tennessee and the Charlotte Opera Guild Competition. Most recently she has performed with the Evansville Philharmonic as Maria in Porgy and Bess and the Winston-Salem Symphony as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elija.