Dorea Cook is known for her clear, vibrant sound, and flexibility within diverse styles from solo operatic roles to oratorio, chamber, and contemporary repertoire.

Recent performances include solos with the Solaria Singers, recently voted Orlando’s best Chamber Music Group (Orlando Weekly), the Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus, and the alto solos in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the UCF Combined Choirs and Orchestra. Other recent performances include the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon with Valdosta State University Opera, staged excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss), Southeastern premieres of music by John Moody, Emma Lou Diemer, Stefania De Kenessey, and more, and chamber music by Bellini, Mahler, Brahms, and Ravel.

Dorea’s current research focuses on twenty-first century North American art songs by women composers, particularly art songs and crossover songs for the young singer age 16-20. She has presented her findings at a number of conferences, including the 2022 and 2020 NATS National Conferences, the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Music by Women Festivals, the 2019, 2021, and 2023 SERNATS Conferences, and the 2019 Georgia NATS Conference. Dorea was awarded a NATS Emerging Leaders award in 2022.

In past years, Dorea Cook has soloed with the Houston Chamber Choir, Conspirare Chamber of Voices, Conspirare Symphonic Choir and the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and the Texas Early Music Project. She can be heard commercially with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus on the CSO Resound label and on other recordings with the Houston Chamber Choir, San Antonio Chamber Choir, and the William Ferris Chorale. Formerly an Assistant Professor of Music at Valdosta State University (GA), Dorea teaches at Stetson University, Valencia College, and Seminole State Collegeand is a private instructor and freelancer in the Orlando area. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.

You can hear Dorea this season with the Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus, The Solaria Singers, and more!