Praised for her “beautiful, limpid quality (Theatre Jones)“ and "angelic singing (Reading Eagle),” Erin Alcorn is a soprano originally from Dallas, Texas. Recently she appeared as the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with the University of Findlay and Bluffton University under the baton of SeaHwa Jung. 

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As part of her doctoral research, Erin partnered with the University of Cincinnati (UC), UC Digital Futures, and Cincinnati Song Initiative to produce an art song performance in virtual reality (VR). For this project, she won Third Place in the UC Three-Minute Dissertation Competition and was awarded a CCMPower grant. This will be the first time VR has been applied to the art song genre. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Erin worked on one of the world's first VR operas, covering the role of Miranda in Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience (Sankaram), which sparked her deep interest in digital performance. Her doctoral research is titled "Reimagining ArtSong: A New Era of Audience Engagement Through VR." The performance will be published online in summer 2025.

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Erin has performed in roles and ensembles with Cincinnati Opera, Queen City Opera, The Dallas Opera and Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, Tri-Cities Opera, and Music Academy of the West among others.

 

As a recitalist and soloist, she has appeared with The Song Continues at Carnegie Hall, the Greater Dallas Choral Society (formally Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas) at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Cincinnati Song Initiative, LYNX Ensemble, CCM Wind Symphony, Dayton Bach Society, Music Academy of the West, Dallas Puccini Society, Voces Intimae: The art of Song, Northern Kentucky Community Chorus, Reading Choral Society, Pennsbury Community Chorus, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the University of North Texas (UNT) Symphony Orchestra.

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In Cincinnati Opera's 2022 Summer Festival, Erin covered the role of Musetta in La bohème. Other operatic roles include: Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers (Spears), Adina in The Elixir of Love (Donizetti), Francine in Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers (Sankaram), Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Papagena, Pamina, and Second Spirit in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), La Bergère in L’enfant et les sortileges (Ravel’s), and Casilda in The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan). In the 2020-2021 season, Erin was to make her Tri-Cities Opera debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Scalia/ Ginsburg (Wang), and Clorinda in La cenerentola (Rossini), but all were canceled due to the pandemic.

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Erin is currently working towards a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM). She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the University of North Texas.