Wendy Bloom
Artistic Director, Vox Pacifica
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Wendy can be reached at wendybloom@voxpacifica.org.
GREAT NEWS!
Wendy Bloom has just been appointed choirmistress for the Bellingham Festival of Music and will prepare the choir for the new Festival conductor, Marcelo Lehninger. Congratulations, Wendy!
Wendy Bloom’s dedication to choral music began in high school and led her to Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa where she studied to become a choir director. During her senior year, she was offered an assistantship to teach voice and pursue an MFA in voice performance. She proudly stepped through that door, and feels grateful to have experienced a long career singing in choirs, operas, musical theater, cabaret, and as a soloist with symphonies.
Her singing appearances have included concerts with orchestras in Ann Arbor, Flint, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Baltimore and Toledo. While living in Michigan she performed as alto soloist in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, Bach’s B Minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, and Mahler’s Second and Third Symphony. Her quartet, SATB, performed and toured extensively together for 15 years.
Wendy’s pursuit of a freelance singing career continued in tandem with her passion for choral music and teaching. In Ann Arbor Michigan, she conducted middle and high school choirs, and was the director of music for a large church. She also served as a choir director and conducting professor at Concordia University. Her experience finally brought her to a large symphonic choir in Flint Michigan, where she prepared the chorus for many renowned orchestral works.
In her career as a vocalist, Wendy curated two solo recitals, The New American Songbook, and A Woman’s Life and Love. She has been a regular singer with professional choirs Audivi Vocem in Ann Arbor, MI, Sounding Light in Birmingham, MI, as well as the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Additionally, her extensive work with Conspirare in Austin, TX included a televised PBS special in the spring of 2009. For fifteen years, Wendy was also the artistic director for a popular cabaret in Ann Arbor called Wine, Women and Song. She has revamped this program as part of the Vox Pacifica season. (Vox & Friends: Uncorked!)
In her new home close to her two daughters in Washington, she sings with the Cantabile Choir and the Bellingham Threshold Singers. She is grateful that several singers reached out to her in 2018 to conduct a new ensemble that would become Vox Pacifica.
Click here to schedule an audition with Wendy.
Wendy can be reached at wendybloom@voxpacifica.org.