Joslin Romphf Dennis, a soprano from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a recent graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. She graduated with her Master of Music in opera performance at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2004, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in May 2001. Ms. Romphf was the 1999 winner of the Young Canadian Mozart Singers competition in Toronto, and in 2001 won third place in the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Canadian Concerto Competition. In 2003, Ms. Romphf was a semi-finalist in the CBC/Radio Canada Young Canadian Performers Competition and was the recipient of a Sosenko Foundation Grant. In 2004, Ms. Romphf was the recipient of the Vancouver Opera Guild Grant, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Encouragement Award, and was the winner of the Kennett Symphony of Chester County Voice Competition. She is also the recipient of several Rader Foundation Grants. In 2007, Ms. Romphf was selected as a semi-finalist in the Loren L. Zachary vocal competition, and received a grant from the Gerda Lissner Foundation.

In October, 2002, Ms. Romphf performed a solo recital with pianist Mikael Eliasen for the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg. For the Music Academy of the West, Ms. Romphf has performed the role of Mme. Cortese in Il viaggio a Rheims under the direction of Marilyn Horne for the Academy’s fiftieth anniversary season. While at Curtis, she has sung Elle in La Voix Humaine and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte in a reading with the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music, with whom she has also sung Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. During the 2000-2001 season, Ms. Romphf sang the title role in the Curtis Opera Theatre production of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa. In the 2001-2002 season, Ms. Romphf made her American professional debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore. During that season, she also performed Le Feu in L’Enfant et les Sortileges with the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music under the direction of Robert Spano. In the summer of 2002, Ms. Romphf performed the role of Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia for the Opera Festival of New Jersey, under the direction of David Agler. Later that year, she performed the role of Magda in The Consul for the Curtis Opera Theatre, and in 2003 took part in the acclaimed Savonlinna production of MacBeth for the Opera Company of Philadelphia. During the 2003-2004 season, Ms. Romphf performed the eponymous role in the Curtis Opera Theatre/Kimmel Centre production of Ned Rorem’s Miss Julie, as part of “Roremania”, a week long festival in celebration of Ned Rorem’s eightieth birthday, during which she also gave a performance of his song cycle Ariel. Other performances in 2004 included the soprano solo part in Beethoven’s Mass in C Major with the Germantown Symphony.

Ms. Romphf was a member of the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, and was also the featured soloist in recital with Richard Epp at the International Voice Teachers Conference "Celebrating the Spirit of Song" in Vancouver, B.C. during the summer of 2005. She took part in the prestigious Marlboro Festival in the summer of 2006, where she performed Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo. In the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Romphf made her Carnegie Hall debut under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. In 2007, Ms. Romphf made her Canadian operatic and orchestral debuts in her hometown of Victoria, BC singing Elettra in Idomeneo for Pacific Opera Victoria and the soprano solo in Mahler's Symphony Number 4 with the Victoria Symphony. She also covered acclaimed soprano, Jane Eaglan, for the Music of Remembrance foundation in Seattle, Washington, for her performance of Thomas Pasatieri’s Letter to Warsaw in November, 2007. In 2008, she was a Young American Artist at Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York, covering the role of Isabella in Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot. In 2009, she was presented in her New York solo recital debut by the Marilyn Horne Foundation On Wings of Song series with Caren Levine, piano. She began 2010 by covering two roles, Praskovya Osipovna and The Pretzel Vendor, in the critically acclaimed William Kentridge production of The Nose by Shostakovich at The Metropolitan Opera.