Cadence Boyce

Cadence Boyce is a classical mezzo-soprano, vocal improviser, composer, and digital artist based in central Massachusetts.

She loves to make impressive sounds and expressive characters with her voice while being mindful of vocal health. Her composing process has always been voice-first, so exploring musical improvisation and new vocal works in college opened up many new worlds of ideas for her.

Cadence graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in May 2025. She is in between projects right now, so she is creating online content, singing in church choir, learning keyboard and electric bass, and giving volunteer vocal coaching to children in her local community.

Voice Performance

Voice Performance Resume

Functional range: E3-Bb5. Preferred tessitura: D4-D5

My voice is dark and heavy with a wide vibrato, with an infusion of the naive sweetness inherited from my high pitched speaking voice. I can do clear straight toned legato in music written to support that, or brief impressions of a contralto.

My most recent major project was Imagined Strife: Opera & art songs to disassociate to, my Advanced Work in Music for my BA in Music (secondary subject Computer Science) at Bennington College. It’s a classical and post-genre vocal recital with very overt queer and neurodivergent sensibilities, with multimedia visuals made by me. See the digital program here.

Other Major Performances

A Christmas Concert (dir. Orion Boyce, 2024)
– Emcee, Soloist, Choir Alto

A Celebration Service (dir. Tom Bogdan, 2023)
– Chorus with duet feature, Jaw harpist

H & G, a great and terrible story (dir. Jean Randich, 2022)
– Feral Child (Chorus Soprano)

Massachusetts All-State Chorus (MMEA, 2020)
– Chorus Alto

Composition

Farewell for now (2025)

A short choral piece about a mad inventor activating his magnum opus, with words by Mark Nash
Written for Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works, taught by Allen Shawn and Virginia Kelsey
Performed by BARD: Soprano Bianca Burz, Mezzo-sopranos Miriam Campbell and Cadence Boyce, Baritone Lucas Guin. Conducted by Virginia Kelsey.
Youtube link to performance (Piece starts at 16:09)

Parts of Imagined Strife: Opera and art songs to disassociate to (2025)

– Imagined Strife I
– I Reason (words by Emily Dickinson)
– Imagined Strife II
– Fly on the Wall
– Ehy, wouldn’t you say / To Find A Key (with Samuel DuPont)
– Night’s Smile
See Voice Performance section

she must see/she can’t see, welcome to the world, variable processing time (2024)

Three short piano pieces inspired by Phantom of the Opera (1939), my cat Magnet, and Stravinsky’s Piano-Rag-Music
Written for Piano Composition Studies, taught by Allen Shawn
Youtube link to performance by Allen Shawn (Pieces start at 48:39)

Metaquartet (2023)

A string quartet about writing a string quartet
Written for Music Composition Project, taught by Allen Shawn
Performed by the Cassatt Quartet
Recorded by Curt Wells, Mixed by Lynne Scharf

Desert Suite – Directionless, Ever Forwards, Ostinato of Stars (2021)

Three short pieces for MIDI piano scoring a short story by Christina Hermes
Written for Christina Hermes’ Capstone Project