Heather Fetrow
Soprano, conductor, composer, producer
“Heather Fetrow springs to life tossing off brilliant high notes with a sheen of excitement”
Heather’s colleagues describe her as a “visionary”
Heather has a rapidly evolving career in the arts. She has enjoyed performances as a singer, conductor and producer on many celebrated stages, podiums and screens. From her recent appearance at the Netherlands Lyric Opera Festival in scenes from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale to her conducting choral ensembles in Maryland and Virginia with Encore Creativity for Older Adults which has included conducting at Capitol One Hall, she has over the past 8 years produced a short film Penelope, album Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned and several concert series. Her album has been reviewed by OperaNews and is distributed by Naxos worldwide. Upcoming projects include Handel’s Messiah in December of 2025 (soprano soloist) and an original composition for vocalist and chamber ensemble.
Heather has a role in championing women composers
Since 2021 Heather has worked with a team of women artists and the Why Collective based in New York City to co-produce a short film called “Penelope” which highlights the music of living composer Cecilia Livingston. Heather believes in a future where the suppressed story of women composers is well known and no longer relegated to a special chapter on “Women in Music” in textbooks. She dreams of a day when young girls will know that the artistic expression of women throughout the centuries was unquestionably always as “good” as art created by men.
Performer and Coach
As an avid recitalist, Heather has appeared on Rutgers University Mallery Recital Series, the Church of the Epiphany's concert series in Washington DC and at the Cell Theater in New York City. Heather made her Kennedy Center debut with Washington National Opera Chorus in 2019 in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and her Wolftrap Opera debut in the Chorus of La Boheme in 2024. A reviewer of La Boheme mentioned with praise: “the chorus, who contributed strongly in Acts II and III, especially the women’s voices.”
She has also been featured as a soprano in a number of roles and solos with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Brevard Music Center, the Victorian Lyric Opera, DC Metro’s Chapter of Opera on Tap, Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, Garden State Opera, Kinnara Ensemble, Angels Vocal Art at Carnegie Hall and the Westminster Choir (see discography). Formerly a soprano at Christ Church United Methodist in New York City, she is currently the soprano soloist at St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Maryland and maintains an active private voice studio. She debuted in the role of the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Pannonica on Crete, Greece in August 2022. Her debut album, Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned was one of Spotify's New Classical music albums of note in 2018. Her mission to create change continues to motivate her passion for performing music composed by women, in close collaboration with active composers. She is a member of AGMA. Her students have performed with national tours, regional theater productions, and have self-produced concert series.