Soprano Pamela Hinchman has received universal critical acclaim since being named one of Musical America’s “Young Artists to Watch”. She has performed with opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the United States, including San Francisco Opera where she was an Adler Fellow in the Merola Program. In addition, she has sung in major venues in Italy, France, England, Israel, Mexico, Austria, Egypt and Hong Kong. By the press she was praised as a Susanna who “cast a glow into the theatre whenever she was on stage. Figaro couldn’t have a more irresistible Susanna. She created the title role in the world premiere of Menotti’s The Bride from Pluto at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and has performed with the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and with the opera companies of Pittsburgh San Francisco, Palm Beach, Kentucky, Florida Grand, Nashville, Cleveland Opera, New Orleans, Chautauqua, Grand Rapids and many others.

This past season, engagements included recitals in Tenerife, Spain, Antigua, Guatemala, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Graz, Austria. Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Grand Rapids, a return to Cleveland Opera as Norina in Don Pasquale, Josephine in HMS Pinafore with Chautauqua Opera, and a performance at Carnegie Hall of Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass filled out the rest of her season. Recent orchestral engagements for Ms. Hinchman have included performances of Handel’s Messiah at the Independence (Missouri) Messiah Festival, which was telecast on PBS, a Gilbert and Sullivan Evening in Evansville Symphony (Indiana), Duluth Symphony (MI) and the Jacksonville Symphony (FL), Carmina Burana in Louisiana, and a return to Egypt to sing Gliere’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano with the Cairo Symphony.

Future engagements in 2006-07 includeZerlina in Don Giovanni with Opera Grand Rapids, recitals at Indiana University, University of Michigan, Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Illinois, Cleveland Institute of Music, the Riga Academy in Latvia, Vilnius Academy in Lithuania, the Georges V Recital Series at the American Cathedral in Paris and The Globe Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. She will also appear in Master Class at the Chautauqua Opera and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Orchestral engagements include Gershwin Galas in Naples and Lucca, Italy, Mozart’s C-Mass in Eisenstadt, Austria and Carmina Burana with the Billings Symphony.

Recent operatic engagements have also included Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with the Cleveland Opera, Adina in L’elisir d’amore for Knoxville Opera and Nashville Opera, Kathie in The Student Prince at Utah Festival Opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Opera Grand Rapids and the Cleveland Opera and in concert with the Kansas City Symphony, and Adele in Die Fledermaus with New Orleans Opera.

Pamela Hinchman is also in high demand for concert appearances, and has performed with orchestras around the world, including Washington’s National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, Florida Philharmonic, Harrisburg Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Indianapolis, Orchestra of St .Luke’s, Richmond Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Haifa Symphony in Israel, Cairo Symphony in Egypt, Pacific Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and many others. She has appeared at the Wolf Trap, OK Mozart and Caramoor Festivals. She has sung a wide variety of concert repertoire such as Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate and Coronation Mass, Carmina Burana, Messiah, Gliere’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, Mahler’s Symphony #4, Haydn’s Creation, and countless Pops concerts ranging from Broadway to Johann Strauss and Lehar. She made her European debut at the Spoleto Festival, where she was featured in a multi-media performance of Mozart’s unpublished lieder, created for RAI Television . She can be heard on CD in “A Gottschalk Gala: Songs and Piano Pieces” and in Handel’s Messiah on PBS.

A native of Pennsylvania, Pamela Hinchman received her Masters Degree in Opera from the Curtis Institute of Music. She was recently given an Alumni Achievement Award by the Cleveland Institute of Music for “significant professional achievement in performance.” In addition to maintaining an active career in opera and concert, Ms. Hinchman is currently professor at Northwestern University.