Biography

Detroit native Sequina DuBose emerges today a stunning performer most noted for her engaging stage presence and charming musical style.

Ms. DuBose’s repertoire displays her versatility in a variety of comic and dramatic roles. Recently, she made her debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, covering the role of Annie in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. She also sang 40 consecutive performances as Clara in the 75th Anniversary National Tour of Porgy and Bess with PAB Theater where critics raved, “her lovely lyric soprano spun Summertime winningly…she gave unusual stature to Clara as a figure of tragic grandeur” (South Florida Classical Review). As Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Opera Memphis, critics praised her portrayal of the wicked stepsister as one of “incessant vanity”, with both sisters praised for characterization “conceived as zany grotesques…as colorful as their voices” (Memphis Commercial Appeal). In the 2010/11 season she will cover the role of Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème and reprise the role of Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with DiCapo Opera. Ms. DuBose has also performed with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, as a Festival Artist with Utah Festival Opera Company, and with the Martina Arroyo Foundation’s “Prelude to Performance” Program in New York City. Other performed roles include Pamina in Mozart’s, The Magic Flute, Erisbe in Cavalli's L'Ormindo, Lauretta in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Nanetta in Verdi’s, Falstaff, and both Susanna and Countess in Mozart’s, The Marriage of Figaro.

Recognized for her talent and skill, Ms. DuBose, a Marian Anderson Society Scholar, has received awards and high rankings in several competitions including the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, The Kurt Weil Foundation Lotte Lenya Vocal Competition, The Five Towns Music and Arts Foundation Vocal Competition, the Richardson Awards for Voice Competition in Lansing Michigan, the Virginia NATS Competition, the Annapolis Opera Competition, and the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition for Emerging Artists. She was also recently honored to participate as a Quarter-finalist in the 2009 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna, Austria.

On the concert stage, she has performed and traveled throughout the Czech Republic, Ghana, Bermuda, Martinique, and Paris. Most notably, she has appeared as a soloist in the world premiere performance and recording of Wynton Marsalis’, All Rise, with the Morgan State University Choir, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.

Ms. DuBose, a graduate of The Manhattan School of Music, currently resides in New York City.