In Celebration of the Human Voice - The Essential Musical Instrument

Cindy Beitmen

Living in: United States
Cindy Beitmen began her career singing opera in the Washington, DC, area. After seven years of teaching, singing, and conducting in Vienna, Austria, she moved to Seattle, where she began specializing in early music.

Cindy received her Master of Music degree in vocal performance from the University of Washington, during which time she performed as soloist with the Seattle Chamber Singers, Broadway Symphony, Vancouver Early Music Festival, and the Early Music Society of the Islands in Victoria, B.C. Performance opportunities led her to New York City where she sang with Pomerium, the Virgin Consort, Symphony for the United Nations, Ensemble Fortuna based in Boston, and the British ensemble Circa 1500. As a member of the New York Ensemble for Early Music, she toured throughout the U.S. in the medieval liturgical drama Herod and the Innocents and performed the Resurrection Play of Tours at the New York Cloisters.

She taught voice and vocal diction at Northern Arizona University and retired in 2019 as founder and director of the Women s Antique Vocal Ensemble, choral director at Mills College, and music director at St. Albert Priory in Oakland.