Music

Ann Marie McPhail

Ann Marie McPhail was featured at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Closing Ceremonies. She portrayed the
Diva Goddess in a vocalise by Michael Kamen, which was written to introduce the extreme sports of the future.

Ms. McPhail, a native of Atlanta, Georgia is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Georgia State University with a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance. In 1994, Ms. McPhail began her professional career as a member of the Atlanta Opera Studio where she sang the role of Serpina in Pergolesi’s, The Maid as Mistress. That same year she also won the Rose-Palmai Tenser Vocal Competition in Mobile, Alabama. In 1995-1996, she studied at the Tanglewood Music Center and performed the role of Blanche in Poulenc’s, The Dialogues of the Carmelites in Atlanta, Georgia at Georgia State University.

In 1998 Ms. McPhail began studies with Mr. David Lee Brewer in New York, taught voice at the Boys and Girls Choir of Harlem, and joined Opera Ebony in an AIDS Benefit Gala with Ms. Jessye Norman. The following year she joined the Houston Ebony Opera, as the Countess in Mozart’s, The Marriage of Figaro and was in the premiere of Fred Ho’s, Warrior Princess as Fan Mu Lan at Aaron Davis Hall, New York.

In 1999 she studied Italian culture and language at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. In 2000, she spent six months in Switzerland; learning German, auditioning for opera houses and studying voice with Rita Loving in Munich, Germany.

Ms. McPhail performed for the unveiling of the Thurgood Marshall stamp at York College, hosted by the Queens Post Office Division, Queens, New York. She was also the guest artist for the Primerica’s African-American National Convention, January 7, 2006 and for the Atlanta-North Georgia Conference, 11th Annual Lay Person of the Year Banquet, January 13, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. Most recently she was a guest soloist, for the Sing! Songs of Comfort and Hope Concert at Peachtree Presbyterian Church, February 28, 2006. This concert has produced a CD, and is being sent to thousands of families that were the victims of hurricane Katrina.

Ms. McPhail has been a member of the Atlanta Opera and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. She has been an artist affiliate at Agnes Scott College and is currently a lecturer at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.