Edwina Eustis Dick [SEP] voice type
Edwina Eustis Dick
Edwina Eustis Dick (1 September 1908 – 3 March 1997) was an American classical contralto and pioneer in the field of music therapy.
Born Edwina Eustis in New York City, she won a scholarship to study at the Juilliard School at the age of 16 where she earned a degree in vocal performance. She went on to have a substantial opera and concert career in North America from the late 1920s through the 1950s. After marrying her husband, attorney Alexander C. Dick, she performed and worked under
the name Edwina Eustis Dick.
From 1930-1932 Eustis was a member of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, where she portrayed such roles as Maddalena in "Rigoletto", Margret in "Wozzeck", Marthe in "Faust", the Witch in "Hänsel und Gretel", and Floßhilde and Grimgerde in "The Ring Cycle" among others. She was also a regular soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra during the 1930s in concerts of operatic works and in works from the standard concert repertoire, a collaboration which resulted in