Award-winning soprano Marcía Porter made her New York solo recital debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2005. An active recitalist, the soprano has performed in numerous venues throughout the United States, Italy, Brazil, and the Czech Republic. Porter has sung at such prestigious international festivals as the Prague Proms, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Ravinia Festival, and the Ameropa International Chamber Music Festival. She has performed with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Beijing International Symphony Orchestra (Beijing, China) and the Camerata Filarmonica Bohemia (Prague, Czech Republic). Porter has also performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chautauqua Opera, Dayton Opera, and Chicago Opera Theatre. Ms. Porter’s discography includes the 2011 world premier recording of Requiem für Mozart, works for soprano and orchestra by Antonio Rosetti (Ars Produktion), Open Thine Heart (Albany Records, 2013), a recording of contemporary American works for voice and piano, and the recently released Romances and Poems of Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (Centaur Records, 2020).

A Fulbright Scholar and Rotary International Cultural Ambassadorial Scholar, Ms. Porter has won several other awards and honors including the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Award Competition, the NATS Intern program, finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Central Regional Competition, Jessye Norman Graduate Fellowship in Voice, Opera Carolina Young Artist Recital Program Award, and the Farwell Award. In 2011-2012 Porter was a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil. Her research was entitled “Bridging boundaries through musical collaboration and cultural exchange: a lecture and recital series of contemporary classical Brazilian and African American vocal literature.” During her residency at the Universidade de São Paulo, she presented numerous recitals, lectures and master classes in cities throughout Brazil including São Paulo, Campinas, Alphaville, Ribeirão Preto, and Brasilia.

Dr. Porter has presented master classes throughout the mid-western and southeastern US.  As a founding member of My Sister’s Keeper, a group of four women dedicated to the performance of music by black women composers, the soprano has appeared on panel discussions that focused on African American art song and opera for the National Opera Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the African American Art Song Alliance and the International Congress of Voice Teachers.  Additionally, Porter has presented lectures and recitals on the topic for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Flipside Opera and Art Song Collective (Winnepeg, Canada) Skidmore College, the University of South Carolina, the Song Collaborator’s Consortia, the University of Michigan and others. Internationally, the soprano has served on the faculty of Ameropa International Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, Varna International in Sofia, Bulgaria, and as a visiting professor of voice at the Universidade de São Paulo.