Soprano Candace Burgess is a versatile vocal artist, researcher and educator. Academically, she has a Bachelors and Masters of Music from Duquesne University in Performance Voice and is pursuing her doctorate in Musicology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on investigating Black History in Classical Vocal music with a particular interest in  Black historical classical music cultures like those seen in Brazil, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, and Portugal.

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