Deborah Montgomery, soprano, is a widely experienced recital, oratorio, and opera artist. She has sung with such companies as Virginia Opera Association, C.W. Post Summer Opera Festival and Ithaca Opera Association. Her roles include Adele in Die Fledermaus, Blonde in Abduction from the Seraglio, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Rosina in the Barber of Seville, Cunegonde in Candide, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, and most recently Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro. Ms. Montgomery has appeared with the Syracuse Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, the Greensboro Orchestra and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Repertoire includes Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 the Brahms Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Jauchzet Gott. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with Mid-America Productions in Mendelssohn’s Elijah in 1989 and presented a solo recital at the Liederkranz Foundation in New York City in May of 1991. International performances include the Mauerbach Festival in Vienna, Austria with Norman Shelter and a guest teaching appointment in Hamburg, Germany at the Stage School for Music. Other honors include a state finalist in the NATSSA Vocal Competition, finalist in the WGN Auditions of the Air Competition and a winner in the Cleveland Art Song Festival. In the fall of 2000 she recorded a CD with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra of Boyz in the Wood, an original version of the Little Red Riding Hood story by Grant Cooper. She has earned degrees from North Carolina and Illinois Universities and currently is a Professor of Voice at Ithaca College. Her studies include such teachers as Carol Webber, Grace Wilson, Charles Lynam, Lindsey Christiansen and Judith Oas.