Heidi Moss Erickson

About

Heidi Moss Erickson is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. Noted for her rich and radiant soprano voice, she is a performer, educator, and scientist who has performed extensively both nationally and internationally. Notable performances include Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera with Opera Memphis, St. Theresa in Four Saints and Three Acts with Opera Parallele, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with IVAI in Italy, and the role of Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire with Opera San Jose. She has garnered recognition in major vocal competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (NYC First Place Winner), the Liederkranz Awards, the MacAllister Awards, and the KDFC competition which resulted in a performance with pianist Lang Lang. Moss Erickson is uniquely qualified with a dual biology and voice degree from Oberlin College, where she worked in the voice lab of Richard Miller, and completed graduate courses in biochemistry with an emphasis in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. Her postgraduate research on telomeres at Rockefeller University led to prestigious publications including a landmark paper in Cell. She has taught vocal physiology at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and applied voice at UC Davis.

Education & Qualifications

Dual Biology and Voice Degree from Oberlin College; Graduate Studies in Biochemistry and Neuroscience at University of Pennsylvania; Postgraduate Research at Rockefeller University

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