Recent performances include the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon with Valdosta State University Opera, staged excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss), Southeastern premieres of music by John Moody, Emma Lou Diemer, Stefania De Kenessey, and more, and chamber music by Bellini, Mahler, Brahms, and Ravel.

Dorea’s current research focuses on twenty-first century North American art songs by women composers, particularly art songs for the young singer age 16-20. She has presented her findings at the 2019 and 2020 Music by Women Festivals, the 2019 SERNATS Conference, the 2019 Georgia NATS Conference, and virtually at the 2020 NATS National Convention. Recent performances include an online performance at the 2021 Music by Women Festival and a lecture at the 2021 SERNATS conference.

Dorea Cook has soloed with the Houston Chamber Choir, Conspirare Chamber of Voices, Conspirare Symphonic Choir and the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and the Texas Early Music Project. She can be heard commercially with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus on the CSO Resound label and on other recordings with the Houston Chamber Choir, San Antonio Chamber Choir, and the William Ferris Chorale. Formerly an Assistant Professor of Music at Valdosta State University (GA), Formerly an Assistant Professor of Music at Valdosta State University (GA), Dorea is now a Visiting Professor of Music Theory at Valencia College and a private instructor and freelancer in the Orlando area. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.

You can hear Dorea this season in the new professional choral chamber ensemble, Solaria Singers, in the opera chorus with Opera Orlando’s production of La Traviata, as alto and soloist with Orlando Sings, and more!