Vocal
In Her Own Voice
A voice shaped by a lifetime of music.
From Beijing to Lincoln Center
Simone grew up in the Beijing Philharmonic Choir, training there from 2008 to 2017 and singing at international festivals and diplomatic events. She went on to study voice with Rose Mannino at the University of Michigan.
As an alto with the University of Michigan Chamber Choir and as a soloist, she has sung Mahler with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn at the Kennedy Center and in Buenos Aires, Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise, and world premieres by Susan Botti and Nkeiru Okoye.
Honors
- 2024NATS Michigan Student Auditions First Place, Upper College Classical Treble
- 2023NATS Chicago Chapter Third Place, Upper High School Classical Treble
- 2021Everett E. Grace Music Prize Lake Forest Academy
Vocal teacher
- MichiganRose Mannino
Selected performances
- Jan 2026Yuja Wang and Thomas Adès with the New York Philharmonic Lincoln Center · University of Michigan Chamber Choir
- Mar 2025Through Love, We Shine, senior recital Stamps Auditorium · Conductor and soprano
- Jun 2024Mendelssohn: Elijah Reimagined Kennedy Center, Washington DC, and Auditorio Nacional CCK, Buenos Aires
- Feb 2024Okoye: When the Caged Bird Sings, world premiere Hill Auditorium · University of Michigan Chamber Choir
- Nov 2023Durante: Et misericordia from the Magnificat in B-flat Stamps Auditorium · Alto soloist
- Apr 2023Ravel: Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis Bethlehem UCC · Alto soloist
- Dec 2022Bonds: Ballad of the Brown King First Congregational Church · Alto soloist
- Nov 2022Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Nov 2022Botti: Vespers, world premiere Hill Auditorium · University of Michigan Chamber Choir
- Oct 2022Marsalis: All Rise Hill Auditorium · University of Michigan Chamber Choir
Ensembles
- 2026 to nowConductor’s Choir and NEXT Ensemble Peabody Institute · Alto
- 2022 to 2024University of Michigan Chamber Choir Alto
- 2021 to 2022Orpheus Singers, University of Michigan Alto
- 2017 to 2020Midwest Young Artists and Lake Forest Academy Choir Alto, featured soloist
- 2008 to 2017Beijing Philharmonic Choir Alto, featured soloist