Aurora Martin

Aurora Martin is known throughout New England for her colorful, warm soprano. Aurora Martin recently was named a Semi-Finalist in The 2024 Lyndon-Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition with The Oratorio Society of New York. In 2023 she won 2nd place in The American Prize Frederick & Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards for Women in Opera. Aurora was named a semi-finalist in the prestigious Partners for the Arts 9th National Opera Competition in 2022.

Aurora performs with many organizations in the Boston area, joining the ensemble of Boston Baroque, The Handel & Haydn Society, and the Boston Lyric Opera. You can see her with Odyssey Opera, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, MassOpera, Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lowell Chamber Orchestra, The Arlington-Belmont Chorale, Opera del West, and as performer and board member of Opera on Tap. Aurora is the soprano in residence at Christ Church Episcopal in Quincy, MA.

Following a love and aptitude for early music, Aurora can be found performing with some of Boston’s, and the nation’s, leading organizations. She performed the role of Dalila in Cambridge Chamber Ensemble’s September 2023 production of Handel’s Samson. The previous year, she joined them covering Venus and singing as a Grace, in John Blow’s Venus & Adonis. She had her debut with Boston Baroque in Bach’s B minor Mass in October 2022 and looks forward to singing in their exciting ’23-‘24 season. She sings with both Emmanuel Music and Marsh Chapel. December of 2020 Aurora performed and recorded two Bach Cantata’s (BWV 211 & 212) with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra. She is sought after as concert soloist singing with Sounds of Stow, Lowell Chamber Orchestra, Arpeggione Ensemble, The Boston Cecelia, Alrington-Belmont Chorale, Falmouth Chorale, and other organizations in New England.

Aurora’s solo concert repertoire Mozart’s C minor Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse Hob. XXII/14, Satie’s Socrates, Mahler’s Das Knaben Wunderhorn, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, and Fauré’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah.

Aurora joined Opera Company of Middlebury in September 2021 as a Young Artist and cover of Agnès Sorel for their production of The Maid of Orleans. In March of 2022, Aurora performed the lead role of Camilla in the New England premier of Pepito with Opera del West, a one-act opera by Nicolas Lell Benavides. June of 2020, she debuted Opera del West’s The Zoompressario, a spin off of Mozart’s The Impressario adapted by composer and librettist Dan Shore. Notable operatic roles include Pamina and Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Micaëla in Carmen, Camilla in Pepito by Nicolas Lell Benavides, Noèmie in Cendrillon, Madame Silvertone in The Impressario, La ciesca in Gianni Schicchi and Inez in Il Trovatore.

Aurora has been an artist with a number of apprentice and training programs. Prior to her recent work with Opera Company of Middlebury, she has sung at The Shenandoah Bach Festival, Opera in the Ozarks, CoOperative, International Vocal Arts Institute, the Bel Canto Institute, University of Miami Summer in Salzburg, Astoria Music Festival, and the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival.

Aurora completed her master’s in Vocal Performance at The New England Conservatory (NEC). Born and raised in Arlington, VA, Aurora received her Bachelor’s degrees in Music and Chemistry from Virginia Tech. In 2011, she was selected as a Young Apprentice Artist with Opera Roanoke and made her professional debut in Il Trovatore that Fall, under the baton of former Artistic Director Scott Williamson. In addition to performances in opera and art song during her undergraduate degree, Aurora was the soloist of L2ork, a Linux Laptop Orchestra. With L2ork she sang at conferences across the US as well as Europe during a 3 week European tour.