VAMP

Mary Ashton Gray, soprano
Adrienne Pedrotti Bingamon, soprano
Katrina Saporsantos, soprano
Page Stephens, mezzo soprano
Laura Mercado-Wright, mezzo soprano

About VAMP

Conceived pre-pandemic and born in March 2020, VAMP is a vocal quintet of formidable female artists touting a motley songbook and a bold red lip. Versatile in style and genre, they are committed to programming and commissioning new work and making classical vocal music relatable for audiences.

VAMP Vocals seeks to create unconventional musical experiences that embrace vulnerability and emotional intensity and provide audiences with a unique ​women-led perspective and a renewed sense of connection to their community, themselves, and the world.

About the Album

Some of the music on this album has been with VAMP since March 2020 when we were rehearsing in parking garages and backyards, our voices like the very birds we sang about, soaring across space to reach one another. You'll hear pieces that were born from our lived experience as women, honed by impossible and paradoxical pressures. Other songs serve as a peaceful refuge, or in some cases, a plea for peace. This debut album is a hallmark in our collective and individual journeys as singers, composers, poets, producers, business owners, and friends. We hope you can hear in every chord and line all the love we have for this music and each other.