I am a Los Angeles-based singer, pianist, composer, and performance artist. My original musical works are influenced by my classical training, and fall into three self-styled genres: Neo-Medieval Chant-based Works, A Cappella Story Songs, and Art-Pop Songs for Voice and Piano. My performance art works combine theatrical and musical elements in a way that is at once concrete and dreamlike.
I also sing classically around Los Angeles, focusing primarily on works of other living composers and early music (i.e., Medieval and Renaissance works).
I hold degrees from Florida State University (BA Music) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA in Music, Vocal Performance), and I am currently a doctoral student studying early music performance at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music.
Debra Penberthy,
Vocalist/Composer
Her neo-Medieval chants are “wordless flights that seem to outline a time and place unknown.” -- Timothy Mangan,