TEMPLE HAMMEN
ABOUT
Temple Hammen is a lyric soprano based in New York City and Los Angeles. This upcoming season, she will be a vocal fellow at Tanglewood Music Festival through the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, she won the “Sparks & Wary Cries Songslam” competition at National Sawdust with pianist Danny Zelibor, composer Jonathan Wyatt and poet James Danner. Last season, Temple sang Annina in La Traviata with the South Bend Lyric Opera and Symphony Orchestra. She also sang her role debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni with South Bend Lyric Opera. Temple was invited to sing in the “Composed by Women'' festival at Indiana University, dedicated to exclusively performing and exploring works composed by women. She performed works by Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová. As a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at Songfest, she served the world premiere of Sheila Silver's If Trees Could Talk and Schubert-Liederabend with Graham Johnson.
Other role credits and scenes include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dafne in La Dafne, Adina in Elisir D´Amore, Hero in Béatrice et Bénédict, Iolanthe in Iolanthe, Filia in Carissimi’s Jephta, Un Patré in L'enfant Et Les Sortilèges, and Una Conversa in Suor Angelica.
As an avid oratorio and concert soloist, Temple was to make her Lincoln Center debut as Voice 2 in Steve Reich’s Tehillim (Covid-19). She performed as a soloist in the first American production of Lachenmann’s The Little Match Girl (Spoleto Festival USA) and has also been seen in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music (Spoleto Festival USA), Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Mannes Sounds Festival) Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes, and Bach’s Wachet Auf, Handel’s Messiah.
Temple received her M.M in Vocal Performance from Mannes School of Music and B.M in Vocal Performance from Westminster Choir College where she toured and performed with the awarded Westminster Choir. Temple also studied at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she received a Deutsches Sprachzertifikat. She trains with David Epstein in ‘Actor Class’ in NYC.
Temple is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community and a mental health advocate. She’s wholly devoted to living a life of beautiful authenticity.