VALERIE M. TRUJILLO has experience in song literature and opera that makes her much sought after as an accompanist, coach, and teacher of master classes. Currently Co-Director of the Young American Artists Program at Glimmerglass Opera, she has been associated with many opera companies including Connecticut Opera, Shreveport Opera, Mississippi Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theatre at Wildwood, Augusta Opera, Ohio Light Opera and Opera in the Ozarks. Ms. Trujillo has served artist / faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Lake Placid Institute, and Intermezzo Program for Young Artists as well as the academic faculty at the Hartt School, Middle Tennessee State University, Yale University and Central Connecticut State University.

She recently made her Weill Recital Hall debut and her work can be heard on the Chandos label release of The Mines of Sulphur (Bennett) and with fellow FSU faculty member Deborah Bish on the Mark Records label. A native of Santa Fe, N.M., she received her musical training from Eastern New Mexico University and the University of Illinois, where she studied with John Wustman. She taught at Florida State University from 1990-1996 and rejoined the faculty in 2002.