Lydia Saylor is a soprano born and raised in New York City. She has been a soloist for operatic and concert repertoire in NYC and abroad. Operatic roles include Gretel (Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel), Adele (J. Strauss Die Fledermaus), Morgana (Handel Alcina),Hypsipyle (Cavalli Il Giasone), Spring and Fairy (Purcell Fairy Queen), and Papagena (Mozart Die Zauberflöte). As a soloist with orchestra she has performed Bach St.John Passion, Bach Cantata 51 (Jauchzet Gott), Zelenka Magnificat, Copland Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson, Fauré Requiem, Mendelssohn Elijah, Vaughan Williams Magnificat, and A Festival of Psalms by Kerensa and David Briggs (world premiere). As an ensemble soloist in the Singapore International Festival of the Arts she has performed PROTO by Holly Herndon and premiered a vocal work by her sister Evelyn Saylor in music festivals London, The Hague, and Vienna. Lydia loves performing contemporary music and has performed chamber music bySteve Reich, Lukas Foss, and Mathew Rosenblum, and premiered songs by her father Bruce Saylor and chamber music by the student composers at Queens College, where she completed her Master’s Degree in Music.

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