MEZZO-SOPRANO, CONDUCTOR, COMPOSER

Anna Therese George

Anna is a mezzo-soprano from Green Bay, Wisconsin who attends the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University as a classical vocal performance major. She is also a multi-instrumentalist with a focus in guitar, composer, conductor, and songwriter.

2025 - 2026 Season

  • [09/05/2025] Singer, Zoie Reams Masterclass

  • [10/29/2025] Composer, Student Composition Recital I

  • [11/01/2025] Conductor, Non-Degree Recital - Haydn's 45th Symphony, "Farewell"

  • [11/14-15/2025] Le Prince Charmant, Viardot's Cendrillon - CCPA Fall Opera

  • [11/18/2025] Soloist, CCPA Chorus

  • [11/21/2025] Singer, Russell Thomas Masterclass

  • [12/01/2025] Composer, Student Composition Recital II

  • [12/19/2025] CCPA Chorus, Millenium Park Holiday Sing-Along

  • [02/11/2026] Organizer and Singer, A Menagerie of Mezzos II

  • [03/12/2026] Section Leader, St. James Parish Sacred Sounds Concert Series, Verdi Requiem

  • [03/19-21/2026] An Opera Night with Riccardo Muti - Chicago Symphony Chorus

  • [04/03/2026] Composer, CCPA Composition/Opera "Ugly Beautiful Love," World Premiere, Greater Love by George/Henderson/Reeves

  • [04/12/2026] Senior Recital of Anna Therese George

  • [04/25/2026] Soeur Mathilde, Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des carmélites - CCPA Opera

  • [04/30/2026] Student Conductor, CCPA Chorus Concert

  • [July 2026] Assistant Music Director, Orpheus in the Underworld - Great Lakes Operetta

  • [TBD 2026] Assistant Conductor, Skokie Presents Third Coast Symphony

GET TO KNOW HER

Biography

Anna Therese George is a twenty-two year old mezzo-soprano hailing from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Anna is currently pursuing her Bachelors of Music in Classical Vocal Performance at the Chicago College of Performing Arts in Chicago, Illinois, where she studies under Professor Elizabeth Byrne.In high school, Anna has studied voice and vocal performance with Dr. Courtney Sherman at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, as well as singing chorally for seven years, performing in show choirs for nine years, and performing as a cast member in musicals for four, not including another year as a pit orchestra member on guitar. She also regularly sang the National Anthem for the Green Bay local baseball team, the Green Bay Rockers. She also performed a selection of solo repertoire for the YWCA Women of Vision event in May 2022.As well, she participated in Green Bay Southwest High School’s choirs for four years under the direction of Mr. Brandon Rockstroh, and conducted three songs for the SWHS Choral program, including the National Anthem for the world-champion Milwaukee Bucks, and Southwest High School's senior song, "And Wherever You Go." She was also nominated her senior year for the local Bush Music Competition scholarship.Anna's first professional production outside of school was The Book of Empty Pages with the Birder Players in De Pere, Wisconsin, in June-July 2023. Afterwards, Anna began her opera debut as False Boy in Kurt Weill's The Tsar has His Photograph Taken in the CCPA Undergraduate Opera, and the following summer, as Dritter Knabe in Die Zauberflöte with the Berlin Opera Academy this past July and August, 2024. She continued on through her junior year of university with her first two principal roles, Ma Moss in Copland's The Tender Land in the CCPA Undergraduate Opera, and Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in the CCPA Spring Opera. In August 2025, she performed with Chicago Summer Opera as Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina.In November, she performed as Le Prince Charmant in Viardot's salon operetta, Cendrillon. Alongside her operatic appearances, Anna made her debut as a conductor in Fall 2025 in a non-degree chamber orchestra recital, leading Haydn's iconic 45th Symphony, "Farewell." She also reprised the Menagerie of Mezzos non-degree recital in the spring semester, and finished her degree with her senior recital, featuring repertoire by Mahler, Brahms, Handel, Milhaud, Rossini, Frank E. Warren, and herself - alongside the CCPA Spring Opera as Soeur Mathilde in Poulenc's Dialogues des carmélites.Anna continues into the summer with engagements in Great Lakes Operetta's production of Orpheus in the Underworld as Assistant Music Director, and with Skokie Presents: Third Coast Symphony as the Assistant Conductor, under the direction of Music Director Victor Muenzer.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Profile

Notable Achievements

  • Three-time WSMA State Honors Choir singer

  • Two-time singer in a WCDA Convention-selected choir

  • Several perfect scores at both District and State Solo & Ensemble Festivals

  • Student Music Lead for Green Bay Southwest Choirs

  • Student Conductor of three pieces for Green Bay Southwest Choirs

  • Gilder-Lehrman Hamilton Education Program Top 10 Performance Composer/Lyricist

  • Student Conductor for CCPA Chorus

Awards

  • Quincy Jones Musicianship Award (2019)

  • National School Choral Award (2022)

  • WSMA Solo & Ensemble Exemplary Award (2018, 2022)

  • WSMA Solo & Ensemble Starred First (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022)

  • New CCPA Scholarship (2022)

  • Elizabeth Luxton Memorial Scholarship (2024)

  • Second Round; CSMusic Competition University Level (2025)

Past Engagements

  • [12/04/2022] CCPA Choir and Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven Mass in C Major

  • [12/02/2022] CCPA Freshman/Sophomore Showcase

  • [07/12/2023] Sophia in The Book of Empty Pages World Premiere and Studio Cast Recording - Birder Players

  • [12/01/2023] False Boy in The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken - CCPA Undergraduate Opera

  • [08/05/2024] Dritter Knabe in Die Zauberflöte - Berlin Opera Academy

  • [12/02/2024] CCPA Voice Performance Class Recital: "He shall feed his flock" Handel's Messiah

  • [12/06/2024] Ma Moss in The Tender Land - CCPA Undergraduate Opera

  • [01/25/2025] Glitter and be Gay - Drag and Opera w/ The Valkyrie Ensemble

  • [01/31/2025] A Menagerie of Mezzos - Non-Degree Recital

  • [02/05/2025] Lee Newcomer Memorial Concert

  • [03/22/2025] Junior Recital of Anna Therese George

  • [04/25/2025] Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro - CCPA Opera

  • [05/05/2025] CCPA Voice Performance Class Recital: "Flower Duet" Delibes' Lakmé

  • [08/02/2025] Ruggiero in Alcina - Chicago Summer Opera

PHOTO COLLECTION

Gallery


RECORDINGS

Solo Singing

Compositions

Conducting

SEND A MESSAGE

Contact & Recordings

All of my social medias, recordings, music, and necessary information are here. Thank you for reaching out!