Mezzo-soprano Ashlee Bickley performs and teaches various genres across the classical singing medium. Recent operatic roles include Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Angelina/Cenerentola (La Cenerentola), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Alma March (Little Women), Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande), and Mother/Grandmother (Little Red Riding Hood). Operatic covers include Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), and Tisbe (La Cenerentola).
Ashlee has appeared with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Ocala Symphony, Concordia Theological Seminary, Heartland Sings and Bach Collegium Fort Wayne as the alto soloist in numerous works by J.S. Bach, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Händel’s Messiah, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the US premieres of CPE Bach’s St. John Passion and Halévy’s Prométhée Enchaîné. An avid recitalist and new music advocate, Ashlee was recently the featured performer at the Manchester University New Music Festival and Rural America New Music Festival and has performed on recital series’ at several churches and schools. Ashlee holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Florida State University and was a Resident Artist Fellow with the Atlantic Music Festival from 2014 to 2016. She is on faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Trine University.
Ashlee has appeared with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Ocala Symphony, Concordia Theological Seminary, Heartland Sings and Bach Collegium Fort Wayne as the alto soloist in numerous works by J.S. Bach, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Händel’s Messiah, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the US premieres of CPE Bach’s St. John Passion and Halévy’s Prométhée Enchaîné. An avid recitalist and new music advocate, Ashlee was recently the featured performer at the Manchester University New Music Festival and Rural America New Music Festival and has performed on recital series’ at several churches and schools. Ashlee holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Florida State University and was a Resident Artist Fellow with the Atlantic Music Festival from 2014 to 2016. She is on faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Trine University.
