Ashley Rose Larkin is a Washington DC based soprano who is a recent recipient of her Masters Degree in Music at Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University where she studied with Judith Haddon. In August, she will be performing with Color Box Theatre as Aurora in the Chicago premiere of the operetta High Fidelity by Phillip Seward. Most recently she was awarded second place in the Chicago NATS competition in the Classical Lower Graduate/ Advanced Women Category, she sang Madame Herz in Mozart’s Impresario as a part of CCPA’s Opera Fest, and this Spring she will be singing Le Feu/ Le Rossignol in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges. She graduated from Towson University where she performed Königin der Nacht in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Act II). She performed extensively in Maryland including singing the title role in Seymour Barab’s Little Red Riding Hood with Annapolis Opera, and Fiammetta in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers with Young Victorian Theatre Company. While living in Baltimore Ms. Larkin enjoyed a great deal of success with competitions including winning the Henry Sanborn Competition, 2nd Place in the Peggy Friedman-Gordon Competition, 1st place in the Lieberman Competition, and 1st place in the Baltimore Music Club competition. She has participated in several programs including Washington National Opera’s Institute for Young Singers, Bel Cantanti Summer Institute where she sang Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, and Little Patuxent Opera Institute with Howard Community College. In the summer of 2015, Ms. Larkin had the pleasure of singing with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony in partnership with Opera Delaware in their summer concert, Magic and Wizardry at the Opera, where she sang 2nd Lady and the Padlock Quintet from Die Zauberflöte, and the aria Der Hölle Rache from the same opera.