Sydney Pexton is a soprano from Salt Lake City. She recently received her Master of Music in Opera Performance at the New England Conservatory. She has appeared in a wide range of operatic and concert performances with NEC, Utah Valley University, and international programs, with repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary works.

Most recently, Sydney participated in the Toronto Summer Music Festival and the Oxenfoord International Summer School, further expanding her experience in recital and collaborative performance. At NEC, she sang Elaine in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening, covered the role of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, performed Little Red in Seymour Barab’s Little Red Riding Hood, and appeared regularly in the Liederabend series, working closely with renowned coaches including Cameron Stowe, JJ Penna, and Tanya Blaich.

In 2024, she was selected as a New Music Fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival’s New Music Workshop, where she premiered eight new works as part of the Emerging Artist Series. Additional performance  highlights include The Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Adele in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with the Trentino Music Festival and Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, as well as roles in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Die Fledermaus, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann.