Praised for her "clarion voice" which "soared to new heights" (Parterre Box), Indonesian-American soprano Amanda Densmoor has delighted audiences across the United States and Southeast Asia. She spent her 2025/2026 summer as an Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera, where she sang Elizabeth (child) in the 70th anniversary production of The Ballad of Baby Doe, and gave a recital as part of the Lunch and Song series. This season, Amanda will sing Flora in The Turn of the Screw with Bel Cantanti Opera, and will sing in the choruses of Rameau's Les Surprises de l'Amour with Opera Lafayette and Wagner's Lohengrin with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Amanda will also return to The Thirteen to sing Path of Miracles, a world premiere by Ashi Day, and Ancilla 2 in St. Matthew Passion. Recent season highlights include solo debuts at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center, and The Music Center at Strathmore in Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra's US tour, The Symphonic Voyage from Indonesia, and winning first prize at the inaugural Korean Art Song Competition for Young Singers, hosted by the Korean Cultural Society of Boston.
Amanda's recent opera credits include Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Shakespeare Opera Theatre, and Girl/1st Trio Member in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti with Annapolis Opera, where she was also seen as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and as one of the bridesmaids in Le nozze di Figaro. With the Maryland Opera Studio, Amanda performed the roles of the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) and Valentina Scarcella (Later the Same Evening), and covered Dalinda (Ariodante) and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro). Other roles include Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Patience (Patience), Counsel (Trial by Jury), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), and Kate (The Pirates of Penzance).
As a concert soloist, Amanda has appeared as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Manassas Ballet Theatre, Rautavaara's Vigilia with the Epiphany Festival, and as the soprano II soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah at Aula Simfonia Jakarta in Jakarta, Indonesia. Other concert soloist highlights include solos in Carissimi’s Jephte, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, Fauré’s Requiem, and Mozart’s Requiem. Amanda is also passionate about new music, and has premiered the roles of Mother in Joseph C. Phillip Jr.’s Four Freedoms, Meera in Omar Najmi’s This Is Not That Dawn with Catalyst New Music, and Savannah in Michael Mill's Take Me Down with TellTale Opera Theatre.
Equally at home as a choral singer, Amanda has sung many large choral works with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Amanda has also sung as a soprano chorister with the Washington National Cathedral, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, The Thirteen, and Chantry. Highlights of her choral repertoire include Mozart's Requiem, Brahms' Requiem, Duruflé's Requiem, Bach's Mass in A Major and Mass in G Minor, Holst's The Planets, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Liszt's Dante Symphony, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Kaddish, Talbot's Path of Miracles, Gabriel Jackson's To the Field of Stars, David Lang's the little match girl passion, and the world premiere of Roxanna Panufnik's Across the Line of Dreams.
Amanda earned her Master of Music from the Maryland Opera Studio, and earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, summa cum laude, from the University of Maryland.