Rachel Storlie

Rachel Storlie is a soprano who hails from Spring Grove, MN. She is a 2010 graduate of Luther College and recently completed her Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of Northern Iowa from the studio of Dr. Jean McDonald. Recent recitals have featured works by Alban Berg, Désiré Pâque, Edvard Grieg, Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, and Ned Rorem. Storlie recently sang in performances of the Interharmony International summer chamber music festival in Acqui Terme, Italy under the direction of Mitra Sadeghpour and Leonid Yanovskiy. Storlie's operatic repertoire includes La Princesse (L'Enfants et les sortilèges), Susannah (Carlyle Floyd), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Abbess (Suor Angelica), and Adriana Lecouvreur, Mimì, Fiordiligi, Chimène, and The Marschallin (scenes). She is currently working on the one-woman, one-act opera “La voix humaine” by Francis Poulenc. Storlie enjoys musical research and performance of obscure vocal literature, and in 2015 was awarded a research grant pertaining to Belgian composer Désiré Pâque at the Royal Conservatory in Liège. She also contributed to and presented at the 2016 Midwest Regional National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) conference the research project "Redefining Success: A Singer and Teacher's Guide." Storlie currently teaches voice at Luther College in Decorah, IA as an Alumni Guest Lecturer in Music, and fondly recalls her undergraduate performances with the Luther College Orchestra as a Concerto Contest finalist and soprano soloist for the Brahms Requiem.