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. 

This 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.  

In the fall, they will attend the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as a soprano in the Voxtet, focusing on early music and oratorio works. Past oratorio includes Mozart’s Vespers, Zelenka’s Missa Votiva, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, and Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël. Eden loves vocal collaboration and chamber music; during their time at Peabody, they were featured as a core member of the Emmanuel Choir at Emmanuel Episcopal in Baltimore and in projects with NEXT Ensemble under Dr. Beth Willer. 

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). They are delighted that their next operatic pursuit will be portraying the influential Vassar astronomy professor Maria Mitchell in Computing Venus at Vassar College’s Modfest in January 2026. 

When not singing, Eden can be found mountain biking, painting, or running!