Rochelle Small-Clifford
Soprano 

Rochelle Small Clifford’s New York appearances have been many and varied, ranging from invitations by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office for annual commemorations of September 11th in the Manhattan Remembers 9/11 ecumenical sunrise services at Battery Park in New York City to an open air concert with the Harlem Philharmonic Orchestra at the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial. Her solo experiences have ranged from guest appearances with the Philharmonia Oltenia of Bucharest, Romania in an evening of opera arias to a moving rendition of Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Unity in Diversity Orchestra in New York City.

Rochelle recently appeared as an effervescent Woglinde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold, and Waldvogel in Siegfried with the Wagner Theatre, and is invited back to reprise them along with Woglinde in their production of Götterdämmerung this summer as part of the theatre’s ten year anniversary.

Born in Wichita, Kansas, Rochelle enjoys singing in English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, and is equally at home in operatic and recital repertoire. She is a rostered artist with the Horizon Concert Series, David Rosenmeyer, Executive Music Director and Harlem Opera Theatre, Gregory Hopkins, Music Director. Her greatest passion is sharing classical music with those who might not otherwise be exposed to it. Therefore, she regularly performs in nursing homes, homeless shelters, hospitals, and schools. Rochelle is the two-time recipient of the highly prestigious Kansas Cultural Trust’s Promising Young Artist Award.