Shelby R. Tipling is an enthusiastic and knowledgable performer, exploring a myriad of vocal and musical interests. Her specialties lie in collaboration in German Lieder and Bel Canto Opera. When she’s not singing, you can find her tuning and maintaining pianos and pursuing her pedagogical passions.
Recent highlights include Nick Hersh’s arrangement of Hansel and Gretel in Peabody’s Outreach opera with Annapolis Opera and pursuing her recital series, Love Lyrics and Lieder: The Intimate Bonds of Art, with pianist Eun Kyung Lee.
In her time in Philadelphia, she was a staff soloist for Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, PA. She frequently soloed at Doylestown Presbyterian—her favorite of which being for Dan Forrest’s, Requiem for the Living. You may have also seen her perform with groups in the Philadelphia area such as the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chorale with Director Nate Zullinger, The Choristers, and Saint Clement’s Church under the hands of Peter Conte.
Her performance experience extends far beyond the concert realm. Some of her favorite performed operatic roles include Meg March in Mark Adamo’s, Little Women, Despina in Mozart’s, Cosí fan tutte and La Contessa di Almaviva as her international role debut in Lyric Opera Studio Weimar’s, Le Nozze di Figaro.
(You can view a more extensive performance history in her attached résumé below).
Shelby is currently pursuing a degree in Masters of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She holds degrees from the University of Iowa in both Vocal Performance (BM) and German Studies with Honors (BA) wherein she became a published scholar in Iowa Research Online researching and writing on, “The Use of ‘Wienerisch’ in Der Rosenkavalier: A Dialect Analysis.” She also studied and performed in Middlebury, VT’s esteemed Deutsch für Sänger Summer Program (2018 & 2019).