About:
Ann LeSchander is a classically trained singer who specializes in art songs, arias, musical theater, and jazz standards.
Regional and touring theater productions include Guys and Dolls (Sarah), Carousel (Carrie), Peter Pan (Peter), She Loves Me (Amalia), and South Pacific (Nellie) as well as the Los Angeles premieres of the Tony Award-winning musicals, It's a Grand Night for Singing (songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein) and The Song of Singapore.
Ann recently appeared as The Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) and Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) on The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Other roles include Manon (Massenet), La Gran Villa (Chueca) Orphée aux Enfers (Offenbach), and Cendrillon (Viardot), where she gleefully portrayed the haughty stepsister Maguellone. Concert work features an evening of Art Songs (L'amour) at Eastman School of Music's Hatch Hall, excerpts from La Boheme and Louise at the Mayman Recital Hall in Los Angeles, and "Recovered Voices" (Landmark Theater)
Ann has performed in clubs singing songs from The Great American Songbook. Her most recent cabaret show, "Sing Happy" at The Gardenia Supper Club was a sold out smash in which Broadway World exclaimed, “Ann possesses a beautiful voice and comic timing...simply exquisite."
As a session singer, Ann can be heard on tons of commercials and soundtracks including Audi, Mercedes Benz, Sony, Pepsi and various Hallmark Christmas Movies. She has also recorded a children's album, Treasury of 101 Songs for Children for Sony Records.
Ann studied voice at the Eastman School of Music and received her degree from Colgate University and an MFA from USC. She continues to study at the Colburn School of Music with highly acclaimed vocal instructor, John Craig Johnson.
