Le Nozze di Figaro. She has also been seen as Cherubino with the Des Moines Metro Opera and the Eugene Opera, as well as The Monitor in Suor Angelica, Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Mercedes in Carmen with the Florida Grand Opera. Ms. Crider joined the roster of New York City Opera in 2007 in Barber’s opera Vanessa covering the role of Erika. She has also performed with such companies as the Des Moines Metro Opera as Siébel in Faust, Opera Boston as Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Gotham Chamber Opera as the 2nd Gypsy in Scenes of Gypsy Life, as well as many others. For her first foray in the operatic world, Ms. Crider performed the role of L’Enfant in L’Enfant et les Sortileges at the Tanglewood Music Center. The Boston Globe said she sang with “ineffable tenderness,” and she was hailed by Opera News as “delightful.” Ms. Crider has been lauded for her fine interpretations of early music. She has performed with groups such as Apollo’s Fire in Cleveland, the Bach Festival Society of Florida, and Seraphic Fire in Miami. She was heard as Pastore #3 in the 2007 Glimmerglass Opera production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, and returned for a second season in 2008 where she excelled in a performance of the role of Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, when the artist she was covering was indisposed. She also performed an evening of Baroque arias and duets with internationally renowned soprano, Lisa Saffer and the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2008. An impeccable interpreter of song and oratorio, Ms. Crider participated in Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues...at Carnegie Hall in 2011. In addition she performed on the annual Joy in Singing Composer’s Concert at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. In 2012 she is scheduled to perform a recital at Trinity Church in New York City including the music of up and coming composer, David Sisco. Ms. Crider made her Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2007 singing as mezzo soloist in Messiah with the New England Symphonic Ensemble. She returned to Carnegie Hall in April of 2008 as mezzo soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. Her other concert credits include mezzo soloist in Messiah with numerous orchestras such as the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Savannah Symphony, as well as appearances with Seraphic Fire, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Crider was a 2011 Finalist in both the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition and the Joy in Singing Debut Artist Competition. In addition, she was a 2009 Finalist in the Jose Iturbi International Voice Competition, a prize winner in the 2010 Connecticut Opera Guild Competition, 2nd Place Winner in the 2008 Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year Competition, 2007 Recipient of the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition David and Ingrid Kosowsky Award, Finalist in the 2006 Oratorio Society of New York Competition and the 2005 Center for Contemporary Opera Competition, and a 2003 recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation. Ms. Crider received her Master’s degree in vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and earned her Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Syracuse University. Praised for her “focused golden toned voice,” American mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider is quickly gaining recognition for her extraordinary musicality and assured dramatic presence. In the upcoming 2011-2012 season, Amanda will make her debut with Dallas Opera as Flora in La Traviata, Opera Omaha as Clarina in La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Eugene Symphony Orchestra as Alto Soloist in the Mozart Requiem, and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra as Alto Soloist in the Messiah. She also returns to sing with the New World Symphony in Chansons Madécasses of Ravel, and to the Eugene Opera as the First Secretary in Nixon in China. Ms. Crider’s 2010-2011 season included appearances as Nellie Forbush in Anchorage Opera’s production of South Pacific, Mezzo Soloist in De Falla’s The Three Cornered Hat with the New World Symphony, Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Apollo’s Fire in Cleveland, and Mezzo-Soloist with the Bach Festival Society in Mozart’s Grand Mass in c minor. In recent seasons, Ms. Crider debuted with Florida Grand Opera singing the role of Mallika in Lakmé, and went on to delight audiences as Cherubino in