Salleigh Harvey, mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and collaborative pianist, is a native of Upstate South Carolina. She attended the Fine Arts Center and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, SC.
Ms. Harvey received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Furman University, where she studied with Dr. Grant Knox. While at Furman, she was an active member of the Furman Singers and Furman Chamber Singers, as well as the Sarah Reese Lyric Theatre. Her roles at Furman included the Baker's Wife in Sondheim’s Into the Woods and the Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
She earned her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where she studied with Kenneth Shaw. Roles with CCM Opera include Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, Ottone in Handel’s
Agrippina, and the title role in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.
While at CCM, Ms. Harvey was a young artist at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, where she covered the role of the Old Baroness in Barber’s Vanessa. She also performed in a workshop of Carlos Simon’s new opera In the Rush with Cincinnati Opera as a member of the ensemble.
After completing her master’s degree, Ms. Harvey moved to Boulder, Colorado, where she served as a member of the opera department and as a collaborative pianist at the University of Colorado Boulder. She coached freshman undergraduates in the voice and musical theatre departments. While at CU, she was a member of the Opera Theatre Singers, performed the role
of Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel with Eklund Opera, and sang the role of Leocadia Diaz in a workshop with Mark Adamo on his new opera Sarah in the Theatre.
Currently, Ms. Harvey is the resident voice teacher and collaborative pianist for Young Voices of the Foothills’ Seneca Chapter in Seneca, SC. She enjoys collaborating with singers of all ages, experience levels, and areas of interest. Although classically trained, she enjoys all genres of
music, especially country, jazz, musical theatre, and classic rock.
When she isn’t teaching or performing, Ms. Harvey enjoys cooking, trying new restaurants, attending rodeos, thrifting for vintage Ralph Lauren, and spending time with her two cats, Chloe
and Beauregard (“Beau”)
