Vocalist of Liaison Baroque Ensemble for Early Music Meets New at Sunset Music and Arts, January 2019
"Both text and music followed a more conventional strophic form, but Becker’s delivery made it clear that the intensity of emotion in the seventeenth century was as strong as it was in the twentieth."
"Becker’s vocal talents were notably expressive, particularly in light of the wide diversity of styles that she had to negotiate."
The Rehearsal Studio - Stephen Smoliar
Vocalist of Liaison Baroque Ensemble for Early Music Meets New at Center for New Music, October 2018
"Throughout the program, mezzo-soprano Becker effortlessly switched tracks, from light Baroque singing to all the various demands of the new works."
San Francisco Classical Voice - Rebecca Wishnia
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Ukiah Symphony Orchestra: From our living room to yoursThe Ukiah Symphony Orchestra will present its second, live, virtual Salons with the Symphony concert—Holiday Songs from Around the World—on Dec. 6 at 5 p.m. featuring vocalist Melinda Martinez-Becker and music director Phillip Lenberg.
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Ladino: the Language for World Premiere of Grand Jewish Oratorio“Kanta Judezmo,” supported by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, relates the experience of the Sephardic diaspora through a central female heroine, as sung by local mezzo soprano Melinda Becker.
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