Mezzo-Soprano Elspeth Kincaid made her professional U.S. debut with the Cincinnati Opera as Aloès in L'Étoile in 2006. Opera News said, “Aloès was vocally and histrionically commanding.” In May 2008, she finished her residency with The Academy of Vocal Arts, where she performed the roles of Madrigal in Manon Lescaut, Varvara in Kát’a Kabanová, Dorabella in Così Fan Tutte, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Erika in Vanessa, Javotte in Manon, Wellgunde in Das Rheingold, and a concert of sacred music and oratorio, conducted by David Antony Lofton.

In the 2008-2009 Season, she performed Siebel in Faust with Opera Tampa, Mozart’s Requiem at the Summit Music Festival, a solo recital with pianist, Laurent Philippe, at the Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur in Montreal, and was a guest soloist with the Ocean Grove Summer Festival and Classical Music Series in New Jersey, an annual program which has previously featured many legendary opera singers including Marian Anderson and Enrico Caruso.

Ms. Kincaid has won awards and recognition with many prestigious competitions and foundations, including Plácido Domingo’s 2007 Operalia World Opera Competition (U.S. Representative), 2nd place in the 2007 Giargiari Bel Canto Competition, 3rd place in the 2007 International Concert Alliance Art Song Competition, Regional Finalist in the 2006 Metropolitan Opera National Council, as well as reaching the Semi-Finals in the 2008 Competizione dell’opera International Singing Contest of Italian Opera, the 2008 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, the 2007 Seoul International Music Competition, and the 2007 Loren L. Zachary Society National Vocal Competition.

Ms. Kincaid has studied voice with Ruth Golden at The Academy of Vocal Arts, Patricia Wise and Virginia Zeani at The Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music. Roles performed with the Indiana University Opera Theater include Flora in La Traviata, Rosette in Manon, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor and Mrs. Western in the obscure operetta Tom Jonesby Edward German. Ms. Kincaid has posed as a figure-model for a personal work of the world-renowned painter, Nelson Shanks, famous for his portraits including Princess Diana, Pope John Paul II, Bill Clinton and Luciano Pavarotti.