Soprano Brittany Nickell, is a graduate of Jacksonville University where she received her Bachelors in Vocal Performance and Manhattan School of music where she obtained both a Masters in Music and a Professional Studies degree. In October of 2017 Brittany was awarded the Opera Index award a top prize at the Opera Index Competition in NYC. In January Miss Nickell made her Carnegie Hall debut in the Song Continues Series under the direction ofMarilyn Horne. In 2016 Brittany was one of four soprano fellows with the Music Academy of theWest, where she performed Ludmila in The Bartered Bride and Elizabeth in Second Nature, an opera written and conducted by Matthew Aucoin. Previous credits include Madame de Volangesin the MSM Opera Theater production of The Dangerous Liaisons under the baton of George Manahan, Lady Macduff in Bloch’s Macbeth with MSM Opera Theater, Helen in Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, and Sancta Susanna (Susanna cover), also at Manhattan School of Music. Other credits include Street Scene (Anna Maurrant), The Gondoliers (Fiametta), and Der Vampyr (Emmy Perth) with Jacksonville Univeristy.