Soprano Madeline Apple Healey is known for her “gorgeous singing” (Washington Post) and “fetching combination of vocal radiance and dramatic awareness” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This season brings an exciting mix of repertoire, including William Byrd@400 with Res Facta, Thuthuka Sibisi and Gregory Maqoma’s “Broken Chord” at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street conducted by Avi Stein, concerts of 15th&16th century repertoire with her chamber ensemble AMPERSAND, and an international tour of Huong Ruo’s “Book of Mountains and Seas” with Ars Nova Copenhagen.

Recent engagements include appearances at Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, Aldeburgh Festival/Snape Proms, the Kennedy Center, LA Opera, premieres at National Sawdust, Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Ad Astra Festival, and PROTOTYPE Festival, as well as collaborations with Amor Artis, the Academy of Sacred Drama, Bang on a Can All-Stars, ChamberQUEER, Makaris, New Chamber Ballet, The New Consort, Pegasus Early Music, TENET and Variant 6. Specializing primarily in early and contemporary repertoire, Madeline is passionate about polyphony and loves working on music that challenges the construct of beautiful sound. Operatic credits include Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), La Musica & Eurydice (L’Orfeo), Hébé (Les Indes galantes), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro). She is a member of the GRAMMY-Nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, co-founder of the vocal chamber ensemble AMPERSAND, and performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.

Madeline holds degrees in voice from Westminster Choir College and Baldwin Wallace University. Beyond performing, Madeline is an outdoorswoman and environmental advocate. A native of Cleveland, OH, she now resides in New York where, whether in the city or the Adirondacks, she can often be found cooking, plotting her next climb, eating french fries, and spending time with her husband Teddy and their dog Bodhi.