An avid performer, Beatriz is a frequent guest at the area’s most emblematic venues, including Carnegie Hall, NJPAC, The Bitter End, Birdland and many others. She is very passionate about choral music and in this capacity has appeared with organizations such as Grace Choral Society, Canterbury Choral Society, Troupers Light Opera, Utopia Opera and more recently Trilogy – An Opera Company; with which she has sung four fully staged operas by African American composers. As part of the newly formed group Newark Voices, Beatriz regularly collaborates with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra under the baton of artistic director Xian Zhang.

Beatriz is also a conductor, having studied with Dr. Mark Shapiro at Juilliard in New York, Harold Rosembaum also in New York, as well as Gary Graden and Sabine Hortsmann at Westminster Choir School in Princeton, New Jersey. Kodály studies were completed at New York University under Jerry Kerlin. Possessing a natural charisma towards the younger generation, Ms. De Mello has conducted children’s choruses at Carnegie Hall, NJPAC’s Victoria Theater and other venues. She is passionate about helping students to acquire proper technique and reading skills, at the same time that they experience the immense joy of being immersed in the world of music.