Taylor Husted is a Northern California artist, soprano, and music educator who holds a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her performing experience ranges from opera to musical theater to jazz and other contemporary styles. Taylor’s operatic roles include Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and has been featured in online productions of Dvořák’s Rusalka as the Foreign Princess and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea as the goddesses Fortuna and Pallade. She has been in musical theater productions as Lucy Barker/The Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd by Sondheim and in Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe’s musical adaptation of Legally Blonde as Serena. Ms. Husted has performed as a guest soloist for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s event, “An Evening with David Stull” at the McConnell Foundation in Redding, California and has also sung for the Redding Performing Arts Society, the Shasta College Vocal Institute, the North State Symphony, and the Eureka Symphony.

 

Taylor’s goal as an educator is to instill confidence in young performers and set them up for success as musicians, artists and storytellers. Many of her private students have received top prizes in local and national competitions such as the San Francisco Heritage Festival, the American Protege International Vocal Competition, and the Musical Theater Competitions of America. Her students often test higher than the national average for the Royal Conservatory of Music exams and have achieved “First Class Honors With Distinction” for their respective levels.