Allyn Van Dusen has had an active singing career for twenty- five years.  Her rich, warm voice soars easily from the low range to the high, and throughout her career she has sung a wide variety of literature, both in the church setting and elsewhere.  Her repertoire of over 600 church solos encompasses everything from early music to established favorites to interesting and accessible new songs hot off the press.  This breadth is reflected on her two recordings, PEACE OF HEART and OUR LOVE.

An accomplished oratorio soloist, recitalist and chamber singer, Allyn has soloed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Oratorio Society, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra, the Penfield Symphony Orchestra, Madrigalia, and others too numerous to mention, to the acclaim of music critics.  She has also appeared in many opera and musical theatre productions in a variety of roles.  She co-directed a chamber music concert series called Fortissimo! during the 1990's, and has been a private voice teacher at the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, and out of her home, for about ten years. She is one of the founding members of the Rochester Vocal Arts Collaborative, an organization dedicated to promoting artistic excellence in the Rochester singing community. (Click here for more details.) In 2002, Allyn won the Audience Prize in the first ever global internet vocal competition, CyberSing 2002, sponsored by the Lotte Lehmann Foundation. Click lottelehmann.org/artsong/CyberSing/ to hear her winning selections.

Allyn discovered she liked to sing while in high school, but had no formal training until her third year in college (she was then a foreign language major).  At Principia College, she was one of the Chapel soloists and soloed in many choral performances under the direction of Robert Rockabrand, with whom she studied voice.  At that point she decided to pursue her vocal studies more seriously and earned a Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude, at Boston University, later moving to Rochester, New York to earn her Master of Music degree in vocal performance at The Eastman School of Music.  At Eastman she received the Performer's Certificate under the tutelage of Jan DeGaetani, who was not only a consummate vocal artist but also a wonderful mentor and friend.  She also studied with Phyllis Curtin at The Tanglewood Music Institute.  In the years since, she has had the opportunity to perform a tremendous range of vocal music in the Northeast region, as well as to enjoy a fulfilling life with her husband and combined family of six children and many cats!