Biography

Biography

American mezzo-soprano Anastasia Koorn is currently a member of the Royal College of Music’s prestigious International Opera Studio, where she studies with Professor Tim Evans-Jones, as an Andrea Bocelli Foundation-Community Jameel Scholar, and is a recipient of the H F Music Award and the Basil Coleman Opera Award. She has also been the recipient of support from the Josephine Baker Trust and the Drake Calleja Trust during her time in London. Anastasia earned her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance with distinction from the RCM in 2024, and she also holds a dual-degree in Vocal Performance and Choral Music Education, with a minor in German, from the University of Michigan, where she studied under soprano Dr. Louise Toppin. Anastasia graduated at the top of her class with highest honors in all degrees.

Anastasia’s notable performances with the RCM include Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Concepción (L’heure espagnole), Maman / La Tasse Chinoise / La Libellule (L’enfant et les sortilèges), Praskowia (Die lustige Witwe) and Cupid (Orpheus in the Underworld). Alongside her roles at RCM she has also debuted Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Miami Music Festival, Die Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel) with Berlin Opera Academy, Serse (Serse) with Chicago Summer Opera, Bradamante (Alcina) and Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Saluzzo Opera Academy, and Phoebe (Yeomen of the Guard) and Iolanthe (Iolanthe) with the University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society. 

Beyond the classical canon, Anastasia has premiered three new roles in the RCM’s Contemporary Short Operas in May 2024, including Imogen Lear in Jasper Eaglesfield’s The Anthem, Stella’s Mum in Jasper Dommet’s Fanny and Stella’s Day Out, and Convict Y in Alisa Zaika’s I (Romance). She has also been featured in Opera Scenes with the RCM as Hänsel from Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Nancy from Britten’s Albert Herring. 

Anastasia has twice received placement in the prestigious Masterclass di Alto Perfezionamento offered by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation in Caermino, Italy and was featured as a soloist in recital with the Andrea Bocelli Foundation as part of the Macerata Opera Festival in August 2024. During her 2025 season, Anastasia has been engaged on contract with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and her future engagements include a role debut as Gold-Stripe the Fox in the RCM Opera Studio’s production of The Cunning Little Vixen in November 2025.

American mezzo-soprano Anastasia Koorn is currently a member of the Royal College of Music’s prestigious International Opera Studio, where she studies with Professor Tim Evans-Jones, as an Andrea Bocelli Foundation-Community Jameel Scholar, and is a recipient of the H F Music Award and the Basil Coleman Opera Award. She has also been the recipient of support from the Josephine Baker Trust and the Drake Calleja Trust during her time in London. Anastasia earned her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance with distinction from the RCM in 2024, and she also holds a dual-degree in Vocal Performance and Choral Music Education, with a minor in German, from the University of Michigan, where she studied under soprano Dr. Louise Toppin. Anastasia graduated at the top of her class with highest honors in all degrees.

Anastasia’s notable performances with the RCM include Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Concepción (L’heure espagnole), Maman / La Tasse Chinoise / La Libellule (L’enfant et les sortilèges), Praskowia (Die lustige Witwe) and Cupid (Orpheus in the Underworld). Alongside her roles at RCM she has also debuted Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Miami Music Festival, Die Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel) with Berlin Opera Academy, Serse (Serse) with Chicago Summer Opera, Bradamante (Alcina) and Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Saluzzo Opera Academy, and Phoebe (Yeomen of the Guard) and Iolanthe (Iolanthe) with the University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society. 

Beyond the classical canon, Anastasia has premiered three new roles in the RCM’s Contemporary Short Operas in May 2024, including Imogen Lear in Jasper Eaglesfield’s The Anthem, Stella’s Mum in Jasper Dommet’s Fanny and Stella’s Day Out, and Convict Y in Alisa Zaika’s I (Romance). She has also been featured in Opera Scenes with the RCM as Hänsel from Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Nancy from Britten’s Albert Herring. 

Anastasia has twice received placement in the prestigious Masterclass di Alto Perfezionamento offered by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation in Caermino, Italy and was featured as a soloist in recital with the Andrea Bocelli Foundation as part of the Macerata Opera Festival in August 2024. During her 2025 season, Anastasia has been engaged on contract with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and her future engagements include a role debut as Gold-Stripe the Fox in the RCM Opera Studio’s production of The Cunning Little Vixen in November 2025.

  • “Anastasia Koorn as Concepción combines an excellent mezzo-soprano with some priceless facial expressions…”

    MUSIC OMH

  • “Concepción, played by American mezzo Anastasia Koorn, here also presented by Marchment as a Young Mistinguett, was an all-pink (hair, dress and shoes) wife to the clockmaker Torquemada, sung by Francis Melville. Koorn sang with fiery and crystalline tone and considerable projection.”

    OPERA NEWS

  • “…the starlet-like Concepción (mezzo-soprano Anastasia Koorn), completed an impressive cast.”

    THE GUARDIAN

  • “The ingenuity of the staging and choreography is matched by the game enthusiasm of the cast, from Anastasia Koorn’s haughty China Cup to Sam Harris’ frankly terrifying Arithmetic (enough to deter even Rishi Sunak from further Maths lessons).”

    BACHTRACK

  • “…made a strong impression, as did Anastasia Koorn ... Koorn’s return to Olympus after an amorous assignation on Earth was sweetly saucy.”

    OPERA TODAY