Soprano Natalie Mann is a promising young artist.  A native of Indiana, she holds degrees from Butler University, University of Wollongong in Australia, and Indiana University. She was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in Australia, and has also been honored to accept study fellowships from the D’Arlier Program to study in Aix-en-Provence, France and a fellowship to study in Urbania, Italy.

An active recitalist, Ms. Mann’s concerts at Fourth Presbyterian Church have been recommended as a Critic’s Choice pick in the Chicago Tribune in both 2005 and 2006.  Her operatic roles include the Countess in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Rosina in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust. Critics have written of her total commitment to her art, writing, "Her soprano soared with fullness of tone through the climaxes; no high note seemed to tax her. Dramatically, she turned into the victimized creature Puccini intended her to be.” (Peter Jacobi, Herald-Times, 1999)

Ms. Mann is currently a professional chorister with the Chicago Symphony Chorus. She has worked under such luminary conductors as Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Helmuth Rilling, and Daniel Barenboim. She made her debut as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in November 2006.