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Ms. Murphy studied singing in Ireland with Dr.Veronica Dunne. There, she has performed with all the leading Irish opera companies, including Opera Ireland, Co-Opera, Opera Theatre Company, and The Wexford Festival Opera. She enjoyed many successes in performance at the National Concert Hall Dublin, and was seen in recital at the Bank of Ireland Arts centre, on several occasions. Fiona has been heard in many oratorio concerts also in Ireland, including Handel’s Messiah at the National Concert Hall. While at the Curtis Institute she studied with Mikael Eliasen and Marlena Kleinman-Malas. She has performed several leading roles with the Curtis Opera Theatre, and sung many recital programmes there both individually and in collaboration with some of the best and most promising international musicians in Chamber concerts. She made her American Opera debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and has performed in oratorio at the Germantown academy, Pennsylvania. In America she has performed in a concert series entitled "From Broadway to Galway", a musical journey of Irish song, alongside Eily O’Grady Patterson, and tenor Ciaran Sheehan.

Fiona has enjoyed much success in competition. She has won the Mezzo Soprano trophy in the Feis Ceoil, Dublin, and the Olive Watson Young Singer Award, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was a finalist in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Mid Atlantic Region, she participated in Placido Domingo's Operalia competition in 2005, and was a finalist in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna, Austria, 2005.

Fiona Murphy, from Dublin, Ireland is an honours graduate of University College Dublin. Having received her Bachelor degree in Music and English there, she went on to do a Master of Music in Opera at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. She is currently a young artist at the Houston Grand Opera Studio in Houston, Texas, where she performs alongside world renowned Opera artists in leading and supporting roles.