COACHELLA VALLEY SOPRANO
Melanie invites you to explore a sample of her performances, read kind words from audiences and collaborators, and learn more about her journey as a classical soprano.
Sharing the Gift of Song
Melanie Pedro
How Melanie Offers Her Voice
Music Ministry
Funerals & Memorials
Weddings
Events
Concerts
Bedside Ministry
Please enjoy these selected performance videos from Melanie’s recent work
Or simply hover over “Voices of Support" and let Melanie serenade you while you read
VOICES OF SUPPORT
"Thank you so much for your beautiful music at our daughter's wedding. Your singing brought everyone to tears.
Thanks for helping to make it such a special event."
Tom Traczyk
"In listening, at the point the singing ended, just before the loud applause, we both gushed: 'Brava!! Brava!! Melanie!'
That's how we spontaneously reacted to how beautiful you had sung the concluding measures of 'Esto Les Digo.' The way you floated the last note (fermata extended) above the soft solemn inner voices, man! brought out Goosebumps!!"
LS
"...I was immediately impressed by the warmth of her personality and the physical ease of her singing. Her voice has a crystalline radiance that emerges magnificently as she moves into her high range, but not at a cost to her middle range tone quality, which is rich and extremely beautiful. ...I hired her to sing the virtuosic, long and complicated Soprano solo part in the Mass in G by Carl Maria von Webber with the California Desert Chorale. She proved herself to be a thoughtfully prepared, dedicated and amiable colleague throughout the rehearsal process and she ultimately offered two performances which were both musically accurate and completely dazzling to our patrons. Her voice could legitimately be described as “angelic silver velvet.” Melanie Pedro is, in short, an outstanding singer and a musical colleague to be treasured."
Tim Bruneau, M.M.
Artistic Director Emeritus, California Desert Chorale
Teacher of Distinction, National Association of Teachers of Singing
Voice Faculty, College of the Desert
"You were beautiful and it was gorgeous! My goodness - every notes shimmery, unbelievable pianissimo at the end - just perfect. Thank you so much for sharing that with me. And let me know if you want to get together for a lesson sometime - not that you need it!"
Prof. Janet Smith
"You did an amazing job organizing the music for my daughter’s wedding, and your angelic voice made the ceremony so beautiful!
Thank you again Melanie. I can’t tell you how much your incredible music meant to all of us!"
Shannon & Lainey
MEET MELANIE
Lyric soprano Melanie Pedro relocated to Bermuda Dunes from San Diego County. Melanie completed her undergraduate studies in Vocal Performance at California State University Fresno and earned a Master’s degree also in Vocal Performance from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Her favorite operatic roles include Mimi in La Bohème, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Micaela in Carmen. Ms. Pedro has traveled with chorale tours through Europe, Russia, Poland, Austria, and the United Kingdom.
Melanie currently cantors at Sacred Heart Catholic Church and St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. She is a 14-year member of the Pacific Chorale in Orange County. Locally, she has been a featured soloist with California Desert Chorale, Choral Masterworks, Festival Singers, Coachella Valley Classical Voices, River of Hope Church in Palm Springs and St Paul of the Desert Episcopal Church.
When not singing, she enjoys healthy living, plant-based cooking and loves spending time with family.
