Biography

Soprano Rosemary Pavlovsky has been heard singing with Tuesday Musical Club, The Ambrose-Romanos Singers, The Austrian American Cultural Society, Clarksburg Symphony, Undercroft Opera, Pittsburgh Savoyards and Crittenden Opera Studio in Washington, D.C. Her operatic credits include Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, Micaëla in Carmen (in concert), Stella and Antonia/Giulietta (cover – scenes performed) in Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Celestial Voice in Don Carlo and Lady Ella in Patience. Favorite partial roles include Princess Eudoxie in La Juive, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and the title roles in The Ballad of Baby Doe and Semiramide. Ms. Pavlovsky has been featured on NPR.

Of Eastern-European descent, Ms. Pavlovsky is a champion of music by Czech and Russian composers and has performed this repertoire internationally. She is an alumna of the prestigious AIMS in Graz opera studio and has since returned to Austria as a featured recitalist at Schloss Greillenstein in Horn with pianist Pierre El-Doueihi. In the United States, she has concertized with the pianist Gerald Jennings and has also been a guest soloist with the Clarksburg Symphony, performing arias by Puccini and Dvořák under the baton of John Collins. As a sacred soloist, she has performed the soprano solos in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, the Fauré Requeim and Schubert’s Mass in G. A strong advocate of contemporary classical music, Ms. Pavlovsky has premiered compositions by George Pearsall, Shirley Barasch and Janet Stivanson.

Ms. Pavlovsky received her BM and MM in Vocal Performance from Shenandoah Conservatory. As a student at Shenandoah, her roles in the opera scenes program included Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, and Magda in La Rondine. Ms. Pavlovsky is a Solo Status Member of the Tuesday Musical Club and a frequent soloist with various churches in the Pittsburgh area where she has performed with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony. She is a frequent collaborator with Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet Orchestra violist, John McCarthy.