Meredith Ziegler
Mezzo soprano
New England Finalist, 2007

American mezzo soprano Meredith Ziegler is an artist whose work is rapidly gaining visibility in both the United States and abroad. Her recent 2006 appearances in the role of Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen with Connecticut Opera, add to her already growing list of operatic roles under such conductors as Willie Anthony Waters and Cal Stewart Kellogg: these include Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel), Zulma (L’Italiana in Algeri), Inez (Il Trovatore), 2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Siebel (Faust), and Iolanthe (Iolanthe).

Internationally, Ms. Ziegler’s work has taken her to Graz, Austria where, in 2005, she was a soloist with the AIMS Festival Orchestra for performances of Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles. Closer to home, she has appeared as a soloist in Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été as well as in Bach ’s St. John’s Passion and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, with both the Holyoke Civic Symphony and the New Haven Oratorio Choir, respectively.

Ms. Ziegler is a 2006 prize winner (2nd place) of the Connecticut Opera Guild Scholarship Competition. She has also received prizes from the Amici Vocal Competition and the University of Connecticut Concerto Competition. Currently in her second season as a resident artist of Connecticut Opera, she has also participated at the American Institute of Musical Studies (Austria) and is a former Young Artist of Shaker Mountain Opera. Ms. Ziegler holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, a Bachelor of Education in Music Education as well as her Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Connecticut.

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