Nancy Almquist, soprano, trained at North Park University, Chicago, (BM in Voice) and Indiana University (MM in Voice). She continued private study with Todd Duncan, Maurice Allison and Tom Reilly. She has studied acting at the Shakespeare Theatre, Studio Theatre and Theatre Lab and holds certification in Contemporary Commercial Music the LoVetri Method from Shenandoah Conservatory.

Nancy has soloed with the Washington Bach Consort, the Cathedral Choral Society, the Folger Consort, Hesperus, Annapolis Opera, the Other Opera Company, the Washington Savoyards and Interact Theater Company. In recital she has teamed with pianists Andrew Wells-Dang (Washington and Hanoi, Vietnam) Jaewon Lee (Washington and the Washington Conservatory) Jeffery Watson (The American Church in Paris, Chicago, and Washington) and Cheryl Branham (California). She has performed with violist/violinist JoAnna Cochenet, guitarist Erik Grimm and choreographer Sandra Atkinson (Light Switch Dance Theatre). Nancy enjoys occasionally guesting with the indie band Prinze George, most recently on their live “Car Bar” program on Instagram; previously at the Washington Cathedral (SoFar Sounds) Howard Theatre, Firefly Festival (Dover, DE) and on tour in Montreal, Canada.

A versatile sacred musician, she has served as cantor, conductor and music director in a variety of church settings. During the covid pandemic she offered unaccompanied song for meditation on Fridays in the Grotto of Gethsemane on the lower grounds of the Franciscan Monastery in northeast Washington. Most recently Nancy served as cantor in the professional quartet for St. Luke’s Parish at the Historic St. Ignatius Church in Fort Washington, MD.

Nancy is an experienced voice teacher and clinician, having served on the music faculties of the Washington Conservatory of Music, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Northern Virginia Community College and currently Northwestern High School’s Visual and Performing Arts Program. She has taught and performed as a singing artist/consultant for the Ignatian Legacy Fellows Program and has led voice clinics for the vocal music teachers of Prince Georges County. She maintains a private home studio in Mount Rainier, MD and online.