e-mail: abigail.pena@concordia.edu
Soprano Abigail Pena has served on the voice faculty at Concordia University for the past 10 years where she founded the Concordia Young Voices Competition and served as a Professor of Voice teaching Applied Voice as well as Aural Skills, Vocal Pedagogy, and Diction for Singers. She also currently serves as a Lecturer of Voice on the Texas State University faculty. Prior to Concordia, she served for two years on the voice faculty at New York University.
Abigail’s students have been prize winners in multiple regional and national competitions, have performed on Broadway and in film, and have gone on to study at numerous top-tier programs around the country.
Abigail has performed as a soloist under the batons of such noted conductors as Marco Armiliato, Edoardo Müller, and Daniel Beckwith and has performed multiple roles in oratorio and opera including Bach’s Magnificat, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Così fan tutte(Fiordiligi), Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel(Witch), Britten’s Albert Herring(Mrs. Herring), and Adamo’s Little Women(Meg). Abigail holds a BM Magna Cum Laude, a MM Summa Cum Laude and a Post-Master's Advanced Vocal Pedagogy Certificate from New York University.
Abigail lives in the Austin area with her husband, two kids and 3-legged dog, Frankie