American soprano, Temple Hammen has been recognized for her "stunning operatic singing” (I Care If You Listen) and her ability to act "vividly, providing character through her body expression." (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). Her versatile instrument and dedication to performing new works have allowed her to explore and perform a wide range of repertoire, spanning Baroque through 21st-century music.

Temple is a Finalist in the Pasadena Vocal Competition, set to take place in the spring of 2025. Hammen won a Runner-Up award in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition and received the Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera's Laffont Competition in the San Diego District.

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TEMPLE HAMMEN

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American soprano, Temple Hammen has been recognized for her "stunning operatic singing” (I Care If You Listen) and her ability to act "vividly, providing character through her body expression." (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). Her versatile instrument and dedication to performing new works have allowed her to explore and perform a wide range of repertoire, spanning Baroque through 21st-century music.

In the 2023-2024 season, Temple was a Vocal Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center. A high point of her Tanglewood fellowship, Ms. Hammen performed Tania León’s Atwood Songs as a part of the Festival of Contemporary Music.

-The Boston Musical Intelligencer 
(Tania León, Atwood Songs)

"...Hammen acted vividly, providing character through her body expression; this reviewer would love to see her in a lead opera role."
 

​Other notable concerts at Tanglewood include Kaija Saariaho’s The Tempest Songbook with Chamber Orchestra, Mozart Opera Scenes with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra singing, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte.  While at Tanglewood, she worked closely with renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw as well as Randall Scarlata, Jacob Greenberg, and Stefan Asbury.

Before Tanglewood, Ms. Hammen won the "Sparks & Wary Cries songSLAM" competition at National Sawdust with pianist Danny Zelibor, composer Jonathan Wyatt, and poet James Danner.

Temple is a Finalist in the Pasadena Vocal Competition, set to take place in the spring of 2025. Hammen won a Runner-Up award in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition and received the Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera's Laffont Competition in the San Diego District.

In 2022, Temple was a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at SongFest where she performed in Graham Johnson’s Schubert-Liederabend and the world premiere of Sheila Silver's If Trees Could Talk. Following SongFest, she sang her role debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Annina in La Traviata with the South Bend Opera and Symphony Orchestra.

Temple received her Bachelor of Music from Westminster Choir College where she toured and performed with the awarded Westminster Choir. During that time, she had an ongoing fellowship with Spoleto Festival USA where she spent three summers. At Spoleto, she was honored to be a soloist in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. She also performed in the US Premiere of Helmut Lachenmann’s The Little Match Girl under John Kennedy. Other notable works at Westminster include the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Filia in Carissimi's Jeptha, and the title role in Iolanthe.

Temple has a passion for the German language and studied at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she received a Deutsches Sprachzertifikat and lived in Berlin.