Miss Galloway has appeared as guest artist with The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series national radio broadcasts, in Chicago, in two rarely-performed Baroque vocal motets accompanied by strings. She has been featured soprano soloist in several operatic presentations for the Chicago Cultural Center and the Chicago City Symphony Orchestra. She has covered the role of Najade in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos with Chicago Opera Theatre.

Miss Galloway has performed throughout Scandinavia under contract with Länsmusiken Agency and Svenska Kyrkan (the national Lutheran Church of Sweden). She has performed with renowned conductors including: Geoffrey Simon, Cecilia Rydinger-Alin, Magnus Sundman, Birger Andrén, Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Commissiona, Michael Stern, Carl Topilow, and Christoph von Dohnanyí. In performances of chamber music she collaborates with Kerstin Jansson, Jan Eyron and Dr. Diana Schmück.

Donna Galloway received her Master of Music degree from Cleveland Institute of Music with opera direction from Andrew Foldi, voice with Beverley Rinaldi, and vocal coaching with Linda Jones and Thomas Murraco. Her Bachelor of Music degree is from the University of North Texas with opera direction with the late Dennis Wakeling, voice with Raouf Zaidan, and vocal coaching with Harold Heiberg. She has participated and performed in master classes by Warren Jones, Max von Egmont, and Jan Eyron.

She is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists, full member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and member of Sigma Alpha Iota.

Reviews

"Donna C. Galloway is a coloratura soprano of extraordinary vocal clarity and range. She has worked previously with Chicago Opera Theatre as cover for the role of Najade...a lovely person and a supportive colleague."

Carl J. Ratner - Chicago Opera Theatre
 

"We derived great pleasure from her singing...wonderful agility, and great immediacy as a performer..."

David Syrus - Royal Opera House Covent Garden
 

"...a giddy display of coloratura, perfectly executed."
"[Donna Galloway] made an unforgettable impression with beautifully sung high Fs...a bright and lovely coloratura soprano."

Helen Dewey Reikofski,
Denton Light Opera, Denton, Texas
 

"Donna Galloway has a very positive charisma, she is easy to work with...[she gives] a high level of quality and engagement."

Curt Dahlquist - Länsmusiken Agency Director, Sweden
 

"...Donna is a world-class young opera singer!"

Länsmusiken Agency, Sweden
 

"Thank you very much for your lovely 'angel-singing' in Brahms' Requiem!...It was a great pleasure."

Cecilia Rydinger-Alin - Länsmusiken Agency Sweden
 

"Outstanding concert performances of 'Queen' in Mozart's Magic Flute ...unusual tessitura and impressive technique made her performances vocally and dramatically impressive."

Raouf Zaidan : Cairo Opera House, Eygpt

Performances

OPERA

• Königen der Nacht : Die Zauberflöte
• Najade : Ariadne auf Naxos
• Barbarina : Le Nozze di Figaro
• Flora : Turn of the Screw
• Zerbinetta : Ariadne auf Naxos
• Marie : La Fille du Regiment

ORATORIO/ORCHESTRA/CHAMBER

• Mass in C Major : Beethoven
• Ein Deutches Requiem : Brahms
• Concerto : Glière
• Messiah : Händel
• Chansons des Ronsard : Milhaud
• Mass in C minor : Mozart
• Exsultate, jubilate : Mozart
• Carmina Burana : Orff
• Su Le Sponde Del Tebro : A. Scarlatti
• Messe G-dur : Schubert
• Te Deum : Verdi
• O Qui Coeli : Vivaldi

TELEVISION PERFORMANCES

• Musical Moments: The Art Song
• Musical Moments: Holiday Presentation

RADIO BROADCASTS

• The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Chicago
• Cleveland Institute of Music Radio Broadcast, Cleveland

Contact details

E-mail Donna Galloway