Alfreda Burke's vocal artistry has been described as "voluptuous, creamy and luxuriant" (Chicago Tribune).  She has appeared in concert throughout North America and in Europe.  Burke made her Carnegie and Orchestra Hall debuts in Strauss' Elektra with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Daniel Barenboim. 

Highlighted international performances include the Prague Philharmonic; Royal Philharmonic (UK); Umbria Music Festival (Italy); Miss World (China, UK, US, Puerto Rico); Humanity Rising: Notre-Dame Reborn Virtual Gala; Mandela, Miss World Beauty With A Purpose & Rise Against Hunger events and Gala (South Africa); Holders Season Gala (Barbados).  Highlighted national performances include the Kennedy Center Cincinnati Pops Symphony Orchestra; Michigan Opera Theatre/Detroit Symphony; Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Peoria Symphony Orchestra; Orpheum Theatre (Memphis); Hannibal Lokumbe's Crucifixion Resurrection; Lancaster Festival; TodiMusicFest; Corrales Cultural Arts Council (New Mexico); Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival; Sentinel of the Sea Award Virtual Celebration honoring Gary Sinise; Millennium Park Gala; Grant Park Music Festival; Chicago Opera Theater; Chicagoland Pops Orchestra; NATO Chicago Summit; Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks; Ravinia TV; Auditorium Theatre's Too Hot To Handel, a duo show, 125 Living the History, virtual live-streamed At-Home series and Holiday Concert. 

Burke filmed the Prague PBS Special, Hallelujah Broadway, with Rodrick Dixon, Linda Eder and Anthony Kearns (Mind the Gap Films, Dublin) and recorded it on the EMI/Manhattan label.  Burke and Dixon were featured in PBS Great Performances Now Hear This: "Florence Price and the American Migration", and sang in the historical Mayoral Inauguration of The Honorable Lori E. Lightfoot (Chicago's Wintrust Arena, 2019).Other recordings include her solo CD, From the Heart, and Chicago Olympic 2016 Bid Anthem, I Will Stand. Burke's Negro Mother performance with the Michael Teolis Singers is archived in the Margaret Herrick Library (main repository of print, graphic, research materials of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).  A cycle of Paul Laurence Dunbar Songs was written for Ms. Burke by Dr. Edward Hart, College of Charleston (2015); and spiritual settings arranged for her by Belford Hernandez (2017).  Auditorium Theatre & DiBurke, Inc. co-produced a duo show and CD release.

A double alumna, Burke serves on the Roosevelt University CCPA Advisory Board (2010-current), and served on the Community Engagement Committee Chair (2018-20).  She was Guest Lecturer in Voice at Wheaton College (1997-2009); and General Music/Choral Teacher 11 years at King Literary & Fine Arts School, Evanston District 65.  She is honored to be a HistoryMaker and permanent part of their collection at the Library of Congress.

The talent, support, and encouragement of Alfreda Burke's beloved parents ignited her musical passion.  Her performances are dedicated to the life, love, legacy and cherished memory of Pastor John H. Burke Jr. & First Lady Mamie R. Burke.