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Soprano, musician, performer, and singing teacher Shelby VanNordstrand shares her love for singing and her passion for expressing stories through music. As well as her classical background, VanNordstrand also creates and performs avant garde music, including r u ok (created with Seth Shafer) which they performed at the 2022 Omaha Under the Radar Festival. You can watch a video of that performance via this link here.

Shelby VanNordstrand has appeared as a soloist with a wide range of ensembles and companies; including Lorin Maazel\'s Castleton Festival, New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Opera Omaha, Omaha Symphony, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, and the Simon Estes Young Artist Program. 

VanNordstrand is passionate about connecting song and opera repertoire to today\\u2019s audience. Her recital project \\u201cThe Giving Voice Project: Ophelia\\u201d examines the gendered oppression of Hamlet\\u2019s Ophelia from a twenty-first century view point through song, opera, and dance. She continues to share her love of song across the globe at many locations including Indonesia, Japan, China, Hawaii, and Lithuania. She is an alumnus of the SongFest program and is Associate Professor of Voice, Vocal Area Coordinator, and Director of Opera at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.