Soprano Amanda Mace, born in Rolla, Missouri, received her Bachelor of Music Degree in 1999 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music where she studied under the tutelage of Dr. Gustavo Halley. In 2002 she moved to Munich to continue her education at the Richard Strauss Conservatory of Music. Now that her formal academic studies are finished, she continues to study voice privately with Kari Lövaas.

Amanda attended the AIMS program in Graz, Austria in 1998 and 2000 where she won the Meistersinger Competition. Since then she has received the Robert Lauch Memorial Grant from the New York Wagner Society and the Emerging Singers Grant from the Washington, DC, Wagner Society.

Amanda made her professional concert debut under the baton of Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival singing Messa per Rossini in 2001. Since then, in concert, she has performed Beethoven’s Ah! Perfido, 9th Symphony, Christus am Ölberge, Chor Fantasie, C Major Mass, and Missa Solemnis, as well as Verdi’s Requiem, Penderecki’s Credo, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Dvorak’s Requiem, second soprano in Mahler’s 8th Symphony and Britten’s War Requiem.

Her operatic performances include Eva, Fidelio, Ortlinde, Helmwige (Die Walküre), Ariadne auf Naxos, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Suor Angelica as well as concert performances of Sieglinde (Act 1, Die Walküre), Gerhilde (Die Walküre), Tosca, and Il Tabarro.

She has performed under the baton of noted conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Eji Oue, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schneider, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, Sebastian Weigle and Edo de Waart and on the reputable stages of the Bayreuther Festspiele, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper and Leipziger Oper.

Amandas recent engagaments include the title role of Tosca at the Wiener Volksoper, Leitmetzerin at the Gran Teatro del Liceu, a concert tour of Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder in the Netherlands as well as performances of Verdi’s Requiem with the Philharmonische Chor Berlin, at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Musik-Collegium Schaffhausen.