Award-winning soprano Marcía Porter made her New York solo recital debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2005. Porter has been a soloist with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Beijing International Symphony Orchestra, Camerata filarmonica Bohemia, the San Antonio Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chautauqua Opera, Pensacola Opera, Dayton Opera, and Chicago Opera Theatre. She has given recitals in Brazil, Italy, the Czech Republic and numerous venues across the United States. She has performed in premiers of Elegy for a Great Person (European premier) for soprano and harp and the operas Paul Laurence Dunbar: Common Ground (Dayton Opera) and The Widow’s Lantern (Pensacola Opera). Ms. Porter is a featured artist on the 2011world premier recording of Requiem für Mozart, which was released by Ars Produktion and includes works for soprano and orchestra by Antonio Rosetti.

A 2011-2012 Fulbright Scholar to Brazil, Porter will be in residence at the Universidade de São Paolo, and will present recitals, masterclasses and lectures on African American and Afro-Brazilian classical song literature written since 1862. Ms. Porter is also Rotary International Cultural Ambassadorial Scholar and winner of the 2004 NATS Artist Award.
Dr. Porter (Associate Professor of Voice) joined FSU in 2002. A graduate of New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, she earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in performance from Northwestern University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Michigan. Her teachers were Shirley Verrett, Margaret Harshaw, Carmen Mehta, and Kathleen Kaun.