Molly Mahoney, mezzo-soprano, toured the Bay Area performing the role of Cinderella with the San Francisco Opera Guild last fall. Molly recently won the Lisa Kalvelage Memorial Award at the Forty-First Annual Henry and Maria Holt Scholarship Competition. She also won First Prize in the North State Symphony's Young Artist Auditions and performed with the Symphony last February. Click here to listen to one of the pieces Molly performed with the North State Symphony. Miss Mahoney also won First Prize in the Art Song Division in the National Association of Teachers of Singing San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter, this April.
Roles performed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music include Mother Goose in The Rake's Progress, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare, Third Lady in The Magic Flute and Eustazio and Mago in Rinaldo. Miss Mahoney sang the title role in Carmen at California State University, Chico. Her musical theater credits include lead roles as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, Anne Collier in 1940s Radio Hour, Maisie in The Boyfriend and Honey Wonderly in the Annie Award winning original musical The Black Bird Sings.
A stylistically diverse performer, Molly has been singing with Big Bands since she was ten years old and has since opened for artists including Peter Marshall, The Ink Spots, The Mills Brothers, Marilyn King, Don Cherry and The Modernaires. Miss Mahoney also appeared in concert with Vinnie Falcone, musical director and accompanist for the late Frank Sinatra.
Molly can be heard as the lead female vocalist on the George Cole Quintet's recently released CD entitled Riverside Drive. Molly performed with the Quintet in the Bay Area in venues such as the Freight and Salvage, Ashkenaz, the Red Poppy Art House, the Sausalito Jazz Festival, and the Bodega Bay Jazz Festival and toured the Southwest and the East Coast last December and January.
Miss Mahoney is currently recording a CD of rarely heard tunes from the American Songbook with pianist Grant Levin, entitled Two for the Road. Sign up for the newsletter on the 'Contacts' page to find out how to advance order!
Molly's diverse experience in performing has cultivated a broad base of knowledge, from which she effectively teaches any type and nearly any level of student. Teaching voice is very personal and needs to be adapted as such, so Molly teaches students what they want to learn, while promoting a free, flexible, healthy vocal technique to help them sing most any style of music.
Miss Mahoney received her B.A. in Music with a concentration in Vocal Performance at California State University, Chico and her Master's degree in Vocal Performance from SFCM in the spring of 2010 under the tutelage of Wendy Hillhouse.
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