In addition to teaching her fabulous IC students, Dr. Daehn thrives on maintaining a performing career that includes a variety of musical genre including oratorio, opera, art song, and musical theater. Musical theater portrayals have included: Aldonza in Man of la Mancha, Nettie in Carousel; Gwendolyn in the musical adaptation/play of the Importance of Being Ernest; Meg Brockie in Brigadoon; Mad Margaret in Ruddigore; and Petra in Utah Opera’s production of A Little Night Music (which was also part of the 2002 Salt Lake City Cultural Olympiad).  

 

Favorite opera roles have included: the famous gypsy Carmen, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus; Prince Charming in Cendrillon; Dido in Dido & Aeneus; the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors; Dorabella in Cosi; Angelina (Cinderella) in La Cenerentola; and Isabella in The Italian Girl from Algiers.

 

Ann Marie can be heard on the Albany Record label as Adah in Naughty Marietta, Bertha in The Red Mill, and singing "You’ll Never Walk Alone" on Gold & Silver: Celebrating 25 Years of Ohio Light Opera.  Concert appearances include  a program of Sondheim and Webber songs for Gulf Coast Symphony, Mozart Requiem at New Haven Symphony, Schubert’s Mass 6, and solos with Mid-America Productions at Carnegie Hall in the Mozart Requiem, Haydn’s Creation Mass, and Vivaldi’s Gloria.

 

An active recitalist and lover of new music, Dr. Daehn has particularly enjoyed performing many of Libby Larsen’s song cycles including Beloved Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers, Songs from Letters, Love in 1950, De Toda la Eternidad, Mary Cassatt and is proud to have premiered as Rosemary in Ms. Larsen's latest opera, Picnic.

 

Dr. Daehn has a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from Miami University in Oxford Ohio, a Master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music where her studies placed particular emphasis on vocal pedagogy.  She is an active member of the National Association of Teacher's of Singing (NATS), the New York Singing Teaching Association (NYSTA), and holds a level two certification in the teaching of Contemporary Commercial Music from Shenandoah University.