Soprano Tiffany Du Mouchelle is praised for her musical versatility, an electric stage presence and exceptional dramatic sensibilities. Most recognized for her fearlessness in exploring new and challenging repertoire, she ushers the voice into new realms of expressivity, including a vast array of musical styles and languages, featuring over 100 different languages and exploring the genres of classical, world, contemporary, cabaret, and theatrical works.
An avid new music performer, her 2023-24 season includes: performances as Madame and the Voice of Goddess Khan Yin in Su Lian Tan’s opera, “Lotus Lives” with Meridian Ensemble and the role of Venus in Tiffany Skidmore’s “the golden ass” with Slee Sinfonietta; a return to the internationally acclaimed contemporary music festival, June in Buffalo, for her eighth year; the release of “Songs and Dances” by Yvar Mikhashoff on New Focus Recordings. Du Mouchelle has premiered close to 100 new works for the voice, including works by many of the most prestigious composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Anthony Davis, Roger Reynolds, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Christian Wolff. Her voice and percussion duo Aurora Borealis, with her husband Stephen Solook, has commissioned and premiered more new works for the combination than any duo of its kind. Their next album will be released on New Focus in early 2025.
Recipient of the prestigious Richard F. Gold Career Grant for American Opera Singers, Du Mouchelle has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Signal, Center for Contemporary Opera, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Skålholt Summer Music Series in Iceland, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and American Composers Alliance, and in such prestigious venues as Lincoln Center, Disney Hall, The Consulate of the Republic of Poland, The New York Historical Society, The Ukrainian Institute, the residence of the United States Ambassador in Cairo, and the Acropolium in Carthage.
Her current projects extend from her research and interests in extended voice performance, creative empowerment, and environmental preservation. Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling is an ongoing, immersive, multimedia speculative collaboration between Du Mouchelle, Suzanne Thorpe, Stephanie Rothenberg, and Anne Burnidge. Exploring the acoustical phenomenon of the oyster’s home and the impact of human noise upon that home, Du Mouchelle and Thorpe are creating a soundscape for the project, developing techniques for singing and vocalization while recording sonic elements. Un-silenced is an ongoing commissioning project exploring perceptions of sounding and silencing, relating to the physical manifestation of sound to creative assertion and communication. Performances, beginning in 2024-25 include new works by Marcelo Lazcano, Tiffany Skidmore, and Yiheng Yvonne Wu, with new works that approach the topics of invisible women, silencing, and empowerment through trauma and abuse. The Emboldened Voice Project extends from her performance practice into exploring pedagogical methods of releasing vocal repression and holding patterns, while empowering creative expression within the voice curriculum.
In collaboration with the cultural diplomacy organization Cultures in Harmony, she has served as an instructor of voice, musical outreach specialist, and performer for projects in Cameroon, Tunisia, Egypt and Papua New Guinea. In her voice studio, her students include classical singers, contemporary art music specialists, Peking opera singers, Classical Hindi Music specialists, jazz, blues, and Afro American genre musicians from Sierra Leone, China, Tunisia, France, India, and beyond. Du Mouchelle’s research in performance practice and creative empowerment led her to develop Expression and Creativity Experimental Learning Laboratory (EX.C.E.L.L.), an artist collaborative whose programs focus on supporting creatives of all disciplines to empower and liberate their artistic voices. In fall 2015, Du Mouchelle moved to Buffalo, NY, joining the faculty at University at Buffalo, where she in an Assistant Professor of Music and serves as the director of the vocal performance program.