Soprano, composer, and interdisciplinary-improviser Nelle J. Anderson (pronounced “nellee”) seeks the nexus of opera, pop, 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 (LeBaron) and co-developed a new experimental musical (BEDROCK with Ivan Cunningham) as an Oracle Egg Resident Artist. Other recent roles include Phaino in Kate Soper’s HERE BE SIRENS and Anna 1 in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins. She has toured internationally as a baroque opera soloist with Ensemble Caprice, 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, 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 singer-songwriter album as Soubrette, ANY DEAD COQUETTE (2021), was named “an outstanding experience” by the Recording Artists Guild.

She holds a BA in Classical Voice Performance with a focus in Written Arts from Bard College and a Performer-Composer MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is an alumna of the OperaWorks and Oberlin in Italy training programs and a certified Reiki Master, a practice which compels her art-making and voice teaching.