ANDREA GRAICHEN is a frequent soloist in the Greater Portland area, performing a wide variety of alto and mezzo-soprano repertoire. Her most recent appearance featured music for voice and lute by Early Music composers Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Antoine Boësset, Barbara Strozzi, and John Dowland. She sang in Blue Hill Bach’s “Birthday Concert for Johann Sebastian Bach” featuring Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227 and Felix Mendelssohn’s setting of Jesu, meine Freude. Andrea has appeared as a guest artist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO). She also sang the role of Mother Jeanne in the PSO’s presentation of Poulenc’s opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.
Solo repertoire includes Mozart’s Parto! Ma tu ben mio (La Clemenza di Tito); Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen; Robert S. Cohen’s Alzheimer’s Stories; Raminsh’s Magnificat; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater; Poulenc’s Gloria; Stravinsky’s Mass; Mendelssohn’s Elijah; Britten’s Ceremony of Carols; Bach’s Mass in B minor; Handel’s Messiah; Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Regina Coeli, and Requiem; plus many smaller works, among them Ballio’s The Old Bridge at Florence, Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Ariana, and the tone-deaf diva comedy piece, A Word on My Ear by Flanders and Swann.
Andrea has sung with Portland’s ChoralART Camerata, Singers, and Masterworks Chorus; the St. Mary Schola early music ensemble; and Portland’s Dirigo Ensemble. She earned a B.S. in Nutrition from the University of Texas.