Renee Calvo, a San Diego native, is a gifted and talented vocalist and pianist. She started her musical studies learning to play the piano at age six and continued to develop her music skills at the University of Miami, Point Loma Nazarene University (BM Vocal Performance), and San Diego State University (MM Vocal Performance). Renee has been a featured soloist in many local and international venues. Ms. Calvo has performed a wide variety of roles including Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte (Lyric Opera Studio, Weimar) Rose in Street Scene and Cecily in La Davina (San Diego State University). She has an extensive solo and chorus background with the San Diego Opera Chorus, First Presbyterian Church of San Diego (Soprano Soloist), as well as several prominent classical and jazz regional ensembles. She was featured in the Classics 4 Kids production of The Magic Flute as Papagena and sang the soprano solos in Mozartâs Coronation Mass and Anthony Davisâ Amistad , Stabat Mater with the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.
⨠She has won many vocal competitions including: the San Diego NATS Young Artists Competition, H.B. Goodlin Foundation Vocal Scholarship, La Jolla Symphony and Chorus Young Artists Competition, Virginia and Susan Hawk Vocal Competition and finalist in the Carmel Society Vocal Competition and Musical Merit of San Diego Foundation.
Past performances include soprano soloist in Will Toddâs Mass in Blue with the Grossmont Master Chorale and Grossmont Faculty Jazz Quartet as well as the Silicon Valley Chorale in San Jose, CA.
Currently she sings at First Presbyterian Church of San Diego as Soprano Soloist/Section Leader, teaches at the Childrenâs Academy of Performing Arts, City Heights Music School, as well as maintaining a private studio of piano and voice students. She is serving on the board of the San Diego Teachers of Singing as President of the San Diego Chapter.