Dawn Upshaw is a world-renowned soprano hailed as the voice of modern opera due
to her soulful style and support of contemporary composers. Winner of the
MacArthur Foundation's Genius Prize, she overcame a struggle with breast cancer
in 2006 to achieve even greater heights and now has five Grammy Awards to her
credit.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, she grew up in Illinois where she graduated from
university with a bachelor of arts degree. She moved to New York where she
studied with Ellen Faull at the Manhattan School of Music and earned a masters
degree in 1984. She claimed ...