Heidi Grant Murphy

In a 2021 profile in The New York Times of Murphy and her spouse, she was reported having stated that “the instrument in your throat” is not enough, and that the process of becoming a singer “takes work on your psyche, your innermost being.”

Since 2011, she has been teaching at the Jacobs School of Music, joining the faculty together with her husband, the pianist Kevin Murphy.

She became a member of the Metropolitan Opera ensemble in 1989, where she has given over 200 performances; her roles included Mozart's Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She has performed at major opera houses such as the Oper Frankfurt, De Nederlandse Opera, at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie and the Santa Fe Opera. She has worked with major orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. Conductors also included Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Robert Shaw, Christian Thielemann, Edo de Waart, David Zinman, Pinchas Zukerman. Her repertoire also includes Drusilla in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Mozart's Celia in Lucio Silla, Ilia in Idomeneo and Ismene in Mitridate, re di Ponto, Sister Constance in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites and Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.

Heidi Grant Murphy (born 1965) is an American operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A member of the Metropolitan Opera since 1989, she appeared at international opera houses, and made recordings. She has been a voice teacher at the Jacobs School of Music from 2011.