Bridgid Eversole
DMA
Concert soprano, voice professor, and family caregiver who spent eight years navigating her parents' Parkinson's and dementia diagnoses. Co-founder of Alula and Director of Education at Charlottesville Opera.
Bridgid is the youngest of five siblings and has been the primary caregiver for both of her parents for approximately eight years. She knows what it's like to coordinate appointments, manage medications, update family members, and navigate a system that wasn't designed for the people inside it — all while raising her daughter Lillie and maintaining a career as a performer and educator.
Praised by The Washington Post as "stunning," Bridgid has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and Constitution Hall. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and teaches voice at the University of Virginia and James Madison University.
Her expertise in vocal health intersects directly with her caregiving experience — she leads The Movers and Shakers, a choir for people living with Parkinson's disease in Charlottesville, and has presented on vocal health for Parkinson's at the APDA conference in Washington, DC. She writes about the emotional reality of caregiving with the honesty that only someone living it can bring.
Specialties
Credentials & Background
Education3
- DMA in Vocal Performance — The Catholic University of America
- MM in Vocal Performance — University of Minnesota
- BM in Vocal Performance — University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Affiliations6
- Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer — Alula
- Voice Instructor — University of Virginia Department of Music
- Voice Instructor — James Madison University School of Music
- Director of Education — Charlottesville Opera
- Director, The Movers and Shakers Parkinson's Choir — Charlottesville, VA
- Member — National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
Articles by Bridgid Eversole
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