Gabriela Schunn, soprano
Biography:
Gabriela Schunn is an early and choral music soprano from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Gabriela got her professional start as the first member youth member of the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church choir at the age of ten and was promoted to professional stipend-receiving choral scholar by age twelve. From there, she became soprano soloist before the age of eighteen, working her way through repertoire ranging from Couperin and Pergolesi to Pärt and Mendelssohn, and was promoted to Director of Choral Scholars as an undergraduate, responsible for hiring, coaching, and conducting fellow young singers. After a brief hiatus while living in the UK for several years, she has returned to performing and is currently a choral scholar at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral choir in downtown Pittsburgh.
Soloist Repertoire (in order of recency):
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem
Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Blessed Be the God and Father
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Missa Brevis in G (KV 49)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Arvo Pärt, Stabat Mater
George Frideric Handel, Messiah (HWV 56)
John Stainer, I Saw the Lord
Heinrich Schütz, The seven words of Jesus Christ on the Cross (SWV 478)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Spatzenmesse
Franz Joseph Haydn, Lord Nelson Mass
François Couperin, Leçons de ténèbres pour le mercredi saint
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei deus
Franz Peter Schubert, Mass in G
Franz Joseph Haydn, Kleine Orgelmesse
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Missa Brevis in G (KV 140)
Antonio Vivaldi, Beatus vir (RV 597)
Felix Mendelssohn, Hear my prayer
Opera credits:
Boy in Lukas Foss's Griffelkin - Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12, 2013 (Understudy for both Girl and Mother)
Johnny Crome in Benjamin Britten's The Little Sweep - Microscopic Opera Company, 2013
Kate in Gilbert & Sullivan's Yeomen of the Guard - Pittsburgh Savoyards, 2012
Reviews:
October 2012: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertainment/the-yeomen-of-the-guard-1577861
October 2010: https://www.episcopalpgh.org/saint-andrews-schola-cantorum/
