Biography

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

Sequina DuBose’s repertoire displays her versatility in a variety of comic and dramatic roles. Last season, she made her debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, covering the role of Annie in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. She also performed as Clorinda in Rossini’s, La Cenerentola, as a Resident Young Artist with Opera Memphis. There, critics of the Memphis Commercial Appeal praised her comic portrayal of the wicked stepsister as one of “incessant vanity” as “colorful” as her voice. She has also performed with the Philadelphia Opera Company, The Martina Arroyo Foundation's "Prelude to Performance" Summer Opera Program, and as a Festival Artist with Utah Festival Opera Company. Other roles performed 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 recent graduate of The Manhattan School of Music, currently resides in New York City where she studies voice with Joan Patenaude-Yarnell.