Daveda Browne

Mezzo Soprano, Daveda Browne, a resident of Piscataway, New Jersey and native of St. Kitts and Nevis, is a professional Mezzo-Soprano performing artist, and a Change Management Vice President at Goldman Sachs. She earned her Master of Arts in Vocal Performance at the John J. Cali School of Music and received a dual degree, Bachelor of Arts in Music and BS in Biochemistry, from Lehigh University. Daveda began singing at the age of 10 in her first home country, St. Kitts & Nevis, at the Mount Carmel Baptist and Estridge Moravian churches. Her first solo rendering was of Kirk Franklin’s Lean On Me. It was later at the age of 17, right before the beginning of her undergraduate career at Lehigh University that Daveda fell in love with and began studying Classical music and Opera. Known for her beautiful, rich voice and captivating presence, Daveda has performed and continues to perform all over the world, including Japan, China, France, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Kenya and Brazil. Daveda has performed, to name a few, at the METropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center David Geffen Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Apollo, and Paper Mill Playhouse, and with the National Chorale at Lincoln Center, America Spiritual Ensemble, and Choral Arts Society of NJ.
Her performances include the full, staged solo roles of Amneris from Verdi’s Aida, Mother Marie from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites (in English), The Mother from Menotti’s Amahl & the Night Visitors, Mrs. Nolan from Menotti’s The Medium, Criada from Jairo Duarte-Lopez’s and Michaela Eremiasova’s Bodas de Sangre, Baba the Turk from Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Clarina from Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio, and Medoro from Handel’s Orlando, and chorus roles in Fire Shut Up In My Bones (MET Opera 2024), Champion (supplementary chorus debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago 2024), X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (extra chorus debut at the METropolitan Opera 2023), Mile Long Opera, Show Boat, and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Some notable memories include her being named a 2024 Premiere Opera Foundation semi-finalist,a 2017 Harlem Opera Theater competition finalist, being granted the opportunity to sing for his holiness Pope Francis at the United Nations Headquarters, being awarded the Teufel Choral Scholarship, Edgar T. Choral cup and Williams Prize at Lehigh University, and 1st place at the NATS-NYC competition, and 4th at NATS Regionals 2016 Eastern Division.