Career Awards: 2006 Opera America Artist
Advocate Award. New York City Opera: 2005
Diva Award, 2000 Christopher Keene Award and1998 Kolosvar Award for distinction
in unusual repertoire. Competitions:
Winner, 1997 Gerda Lissner Foundation Awards, Silver Medalist, 1995 Marian
Anderson International Vocal Competition, George London Awards and Sullivan
Foundation grant. Professional debut
with San Diego Opera.
Performance: Leading soprano with Metropolitan
Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Scottish
Opera, L'Opéra de Nice, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Wexford Festival, Saito
Kinen Festival (Japan), Japan Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, L’Orchetre
Pasdeloup;
Concerts: Recitals/Cabaret with John
Musto: Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub, Café Sabarsky, New York Festival of Song
(NYFOS), Lincoln Center Festival, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Great Performers
Series, Library of Congress, L'Opéra Français de New York (LOFNY) and
Miller Theater. Concerts in Rome, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Paris; Appearances
with major American orchestras and opera companies.NY recital debut at 92nd Street Y, 1997, Tokyo String Quartet,
Trio Solisti, Moab Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Conductors: Yves Abel, Marin Alsop,
Serge Baudo, Daniel Beckwith, Harry Bicket, Richard Bonynge, James Conlon, John
DeMainChristoph Eschenbach, Jane Glover, Christopher Hogwood, Raymond Leppard,
Andrew Litton, Stephen Lord, George Manahan, Nicholas McGegan, Eduardo Muller,
Leonard Slatkin, Seiji Ozawa, Steward Robertson, Stephen Sloan, Craig Smith,
Robert Spano, Emmanuel Villaume.
Recordings: Songs of John Musto (Bridge), Useful
Knowledge: Music of Paul Moravec (Naxos), Gershwin's Blue Monday
(ANGEL/EMI), Richard Wilson: Persuasions (Albany), Fond Affection:
Songs of Ernst Bacon (CRI), Souvenir de Printemps (Harbinger), Trouble
in Tahiti (Japanese Television/Bravo), Live from Lincoln Center: What Makes a Song? To be released: Cole
Porter’s La Revue des Ambassadeurs (Harbinger),
Cabaret Songs (Title TBA, Bridge), Dellaira’s The Secret Agent (World Premiere recording, TBA) and John Musto’s Summer Stars (Opera America).
Teaching: Voice faculty, Mannes College The New School
for Music, since 2002, CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program since 2011,
Songfest at Colburn Conservatory: The
Complete Recitalist since 2008, Private studio since 1997. NATS, NYSUT,
NYFOS Artists Council, Advisory Board Glimmerglass Opera.
