Symphonie Fantastique!

She holds a Bachelors of Music from Manhattan School of Music and both a Masters of Music and an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from Juilliard. Career highlights include creating the role of Mary Johnson in the Cincinnati Opera world premiere production of Greg Spears’ Fellow Travelers, a role which she also took to Chicago Lyric Opera and The Prototype Festival in New York. Other notable roles include multiple seasons with Santa Fe Opera both as an apprentice and principle with the roles of Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus; Sandman/Dewfairy in Hansel and Gretel at San Diego Opera; the role of Susanna in a touring production of Le Nozze di Figaro in Japan with Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Festival; a second season at English National Opera singing Pamina in The Magic Flute; and many seasons with The Paul Taylor Dance Company as the soprano soloist for Beloved Renegade at Lincoln Center.  She has won several awards and prizes in competitions such as the Gerda Lissner Competition, Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, Licia Albanese Competition, and Liederkranz. A dedicated recitalist and contemporary music interpreter, she has worked directly with many of the prominent composers of our time including Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon, Libby Larsen, Sheila Silver, John Harbison, and Huang Ruo. Her work on composer Luna Pearl Woolf’s album Fire and Flood earned her a Grammy nomination in 2020.