Krystle Menendez

Hospitality

email: hospitality@natslachapter.org

Soprano Krystle Menendez has performed as symphonic, oratorio, and operatic soloist in the U.S. and in Austria. She received her BA in Music from the University of Redlands and her MM in Vocal Performance from UCLA, where she studied with renowned baritone, Vladimir Chernov and renowned soprano, Juliana Gondek. She has sung operatic roles that include Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, Fire, Princess, and Nightingale in Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges, Nerone in Handel’s Agrippina, and Flight Controller in the west coast premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Flight.

Additionally, she premiered the role of Yetta in Dan Tucker’s The Blue Moose, at the University of Redlands. Collegiately she has had the pleasure of working under such directors and conductors as Peter Kazaras, Neal Stulberg, James Darrah, and Steven Stubbs. As a concert soloist, she has been featured in an all-Mozart concert with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as in numerous performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Pasadena Master Chorale, L.A. Daiku, and the L.A. Daiku Orchestra. She has also appeared in Requiems by Fauré, Mozart, and Brahms in both Los Angeles and Boston, as well as in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, and Haydn’s Missa Brevis.

Mrs. Menendez is also passionate about teaching. She has been a private voice teacher for nearly twenty years and has helped her students get into prestigious programs at such schools as UCLA, Manhattan School of Music, the Bob Cole Conservatory, Chapman University, and Cal State Fullerton. Mrs. Menendez is on the voice faculties of Cal State Fullerton and Fullerton College and has been a lecturer of voice at UCLA, where her students compete and perform at the highest levels.