Soprano, composer, and interdisciplinary improviser Nelle June Anderson (“nellee”) explores a singular intersection of opera, mischief, and performance art.

She recently made her company debut with the GRAMMY Award-winning PARTCH Ensemble as Marilyn Monroe/S in LSD—Huxley’s Last Trip (Anne LeBaron) and performed and directed the premiere of a just-intoned musical (BEDROCK, Ivan Cunningham) as an Oracle Egg BROILER Series Resident Artist. Recent lead roles include Phaino in Kate Soper’s HERE BE SIRENS and Anna 1 in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins with CalArts Schools of Music & Theater. She has toured internationally as a baroque opera soloist with Ensemble Caprice (JUNO Award-winner), Bach Society of Minnesota, and Early Music Seattle and sung in masterclasses with Leon Botstein, Ari Pelto, and Dawn Upshaw.

A Fulbright Fellowship 2024 Semifinalist (Germany), Ms. Anderson composes solo and large-ensemble performance art pieces as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), externalizing the singer’s inner monologue, practice-room processes, and spiritual motivations. Praised for its “production trickery” and “graceful experimentation,” her debut art pop album as Soubrette, ANY DEAD COQUETTE (2021), was named “an outstanding experience” by the Recording Artists Guild.

She holds a Bachelors in Classical Voice Performance with a focus in Written Arts from Bard College, where she was the 2014—2015 Betsy Richards Scholar: Music Major Outstanding in the Liberal Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts in Performer-Composer (2022—2024 Dumont Foundation Scholar, Dean’s Grantee) from California Institute of the Arts.