Eden Bartholomew has always been transported by stories and initially wanted to be an English professor, studying literature and music at Vassar College. There, they studied voice with Drew Minter and decided to pursue the art form while deeply missing musical collaboration during the spring of 2020. Since then, they have fallen in love with music as a colorful embodiment of language and expression, and recently earned a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Institute, studying with Elizabeth Futral. Fusing their passion for poetry and music, Eden is an avid lover of art song and placed in the Sylvia Green Competition for Orchestrated Art Song (second, 2024) and the Art Song Competition (third, 2023, 2024) at Peabody.
Last summer, they attended the Tanglewood Music Festival as a Vocal Fellow under the direction of Dawn Upshaw, performing Le feu in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, as well as contemporary chamber music, art song sets, and Bach’s Lutheran Mass in G Major. They are delighted to be returning to Tanglewood as a Vocal Fellow in the summer of 2026!
In the fall of 2025, they began studying at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as a soprano in the Voxtet, focusing on early music and oratorio works. At Yale, they have been featured as a soprano soloist in multiple works with Yale’s Schola Cantorum, including Handel’s Jephtha, Bach’s Magnificat, and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. Eden was recently heard as Eve in Yale Schola Cantorum’s performance of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung in Lincoln Center, which they will be touring in Italy. Past oratorio includes Scarlatti’s Il martirio di Sant’Orsola (Florida), Carsissimi’s Jephte (Filia), Mozart’s Vespers, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël. Eden loves vocal collaboration and ensemble singing; in addition to collegiate choirs like Peabody’s NEXT Ensemble and Yale Schola Cantorum, they have also sung with professional ensembles including the Emmanuel Choir of Baltimore and Voices of Ascension in New York City.
Also a lover of theater, Eden has performed in Mozart operas (Susanna: Le nozze di Figaro, Papagena: Die Zauberflöte), and as Mozart himself (The Classical Style by Steven Stucky). Most recently, they had the honor of portraying the influential Vassar astronomy professor Maria Mitchell in Timothy Takach and Caitlin Vincent’s new opera Computing Venus at Vassar College’s Modfest in January 2026.
When not singing, Eden can be found mountain biking, painting, or running!
