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ABOUT

Temple Hammen is a lyric soprano based in New York City and Los Angeles. She is a 2024 Vocal Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and most recently performed Tania León’s Atwood Songs as a part of the Festival of Contemporary Music.

"...Hammen acted vividly, providing character through her body expression; this reviewer would love to see her in a lead opera role."
 

- Ian Wiese, The Boston Musical Intelligencer  (Tania León, Atwood Songs)

"Atwood Songs, performed brilliantly by soprano Temple Hammen... that blend stunning operatic singing with bursts of the blues and Cuban dance music.

- Lana Norris, I Care If You Listen
 

While at Tanglewood, she sang in master classes with Nicole Cabell, Margo Garrett, and Tony Arnold. Her upcoming concerts include Kaija Saariaho’s The Tempest Songbook and Mozart Opera Scenes Concert where she will perform Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte.

Previously, she won the "Sparks & Wary Cries songSLAM" competition at National Sawdust with pianist Danny Zelibor, composer Jonathan Wyatt, and poet James Danner.

In the 2022- 2023 season, Temple sang her role debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Annina in La Traviata with the South Bend Opera and Symphony Orchestra. 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, Ilia in Idomeneo, Hero in Béatrice et Bénédict, Iolanthe in Iolanthe, and Filia in Carissimi’s Jephta.

As a lover of new works, she served the World Premiere of Sheila Silver's If Trees Could Talk as a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at Songfest. Temple was to make her Lincoln Center debut as Voice 2 in Steve Reich’s Tehillim (Covid-19). During Covid-19, she performed in On Site Opera’s virtual production of The Beauty that Still Remains: Diaries in Song by Marcus Paus. At Spoleto Festival USA, she performed in the USA Premiere of Lachenmann’s The Little Match Girl.

Temple is an avid oratorio and concert soloist, Temple was invited to sing at the “Composed by Women Festival” at Indiana University, a festival dedicated to exclusively performing and exploring works composed by women. She performed works by Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová. and Schubert-Liederabend with Graham Johnson. At Songfest, she sang in master classes with Martin Katz and Graham Johnson. As the soprano soloist, she has been seen in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at Spoleto Festival USA, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at Mannes Sounds Festival, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy at Westminster Choir College, 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.

Temple is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, she’s wholly devoted to living a life of beautiful authenticity.

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