About
Gwyneth Rix is an American mezzo-soprano born and raised in the Greater Philadelphia area. While she began her formal musical studies at the age of six as a pianist, she has been singing her whole life. When she began voice lessons at the age of thirteen, she quickly switched her concentration to singing. In 2017, Gwyneth was the youngest ever singer to join Vox Ama Deus. She later went on to attend the Philadelphia International Music Festival in 2018, the Bel Canto Institute in Florence in 2019, and the Washington National Opera Institute in 2021. She made her operatic debut in January of 2020 as the titular character in Amahl and the Night Visitors. That same year, she won an encouragement award in her region of the Schmidt Vocal Competition, of which she would be a finalist in 2021. Throughout high school, Gwyneth was consistently involved with both the Delaware Valley Opera Company and the Harriton Theater Company.
Gwyneth began her university studies in 2021 with a full scholarship at Boston University in the studio of Lynn Eustis. Since moving to Boston, Gwyneth has been a winner of the 2022 Calliope's Call young singer competition, a first place winner of the Boston NATS Student Auditions, and a second place winner of the New England NATS National Student Auditions. In the summer of 2022, she attended Songfest in San Francisco, CA under the support of the Art Song Foundation of Canada. There she attended masterclasses and presentations on art song from Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, and Sheila Silver. The following winter, Gwyneth made her debut in a concert of art song with Calliope's Call in Lexington, MA. In autumn of 2023, Gwyneth studied abroad at the Royal College of Music in London, where she took one-to-one lessons with Miranda Wright and coached with Andrew Robinson. That same semester, she sang with the RCM Symphony Chorus under Sir Andrew Davis. The same year she sang the mezzo solos in both the Durufé Requiem and the Liszt transcription of Beethoven's Ninth Symohony with the Boston University Singers. In the summer of 2024, she joined the Berlin Opera Academy in her first full role with orchestra: Dritte Dame in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
At Boston University, she performs regularly with the BU Singers and BU Symphonic Chorus as both a chorister and soloist. Notable venues include the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Symphony Hall in Boston, and the Royal College of Music Concert Hall. She has sung premiers of works by student composers and performs in the opera scenes program every semester. Gwyneth is passionate about early and 20th-century choral music and subs regularly with the Church of the Advent choir in Boston.
This spring and summer, Gwyneth Looks forward to her senior recital and debuting the roles of La Badessa in BU's production of Suor Angelica and Arcane in Ensemble Orquesta's production of Handel's Teseo in London. Afterwards, she will attend the Opera Caledonia Vocal Studio course in Edinburgh.
