AnnMarie Sandy is garnering praise for her operatic, concert, and recorded work. She is featured on the New World Records recording of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, which BBC Magazine has called "a work of tremendous significance", and is said to be “among the inspired cast’s stand-out performances” by Classics Today. The mezzo-soprano grew up in Houston, TX and is based in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2003 AnnMarie performed the role of Eliza Brooks in the Central City Opera world premiere Gabriel’s Daughter. She also sang the roles of Stephano with Opera North in Roméo et Juliette, Second Lady with Brevard Music Center in The Magic Flute, and Mercedes with One World Symphony in Carmen.
In 2007 she made her Lincoln Center debut at Avery Fisher Hall, performing the alto solo in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. AnnMarie made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 singing the role of Ursula, performing with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Collegiate Chorale, and the Manhattan Girls Chorus, in the Strauss opera Feuersnot.
In the fall of 2014 AnnMarie returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago and performed in the reprised ensemble cast of Porgy and Bess. She was featured in the work Let My People Go! A Spiritual Journey Along the Underground Railroad with the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, and also performed in recital the Ravel song cycle Chansons madécasses at Bucknell University.
In 2017 AnnMarie performed in the concert [GENERATE] William Parker: Healing Songs from the Tone World, which was held at the experimental Brooklyn venue Roulette. She has also performed with William Parker at innovative New York City venues such as The Kitchen and The Stone. AnnMarie is featured on the album Voices Fall from the Sky, the vocal compilation album of renowned free jazz bassist and composer William Parker. Described by PopMatters as William Parker's "album of a lifetime", in the featured piece The Blinking of the Ear the magazine states AnnMarie as: "stretching her operatic range to sing notes of freedom, healing, and peace." In the fall of 2018 she performed at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola with William Parker and his jazz ensemble.
AnnMarie is an original cast member of the 2012 workshop production ¡Figaro! (90210), performing the role of Donna Curson, which featured with Morningside Opera at the New York City venue Dixon Place. The production was later performed in 2013 at The NSD Theater in New York City. She joined the cast of ¡Figaro! (90210) in 2016, making its second Off Broadway feature at The Duke Theater on 42nd Street, reprising the cover role of Donna Curson.
In October 2020 she featured her debut recital at Scholes Street Studio, performing works by Ravel, Faure, Mozart, Strauss, Danielpour, and more. In the Fall of 2021, she featured in The Pleiades Project production of A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza!. Other performances include the Open Gates Project concert The Divine Feminine: Centering the Voices of Women of Color in Early Music. Winter of 2022 brought AnnMarie to Paris, performing Trail of Tears Continuum 1492-2020, at jazz festival Sons d’hiver, with William Parker and his ensemble. Fall 2023 brought her to the Kaufman Music Center, performing “I Will Tell You About This, I Will Tell You About It.” – which features the poem of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith, and composition by Aaron Siegel.