Faith Sherman
Mezzo soprano
New England First Place Winner, 2007

Acclaimed by the New York Times as a “luminous mezzo-soprano” and praised by Opera News for her “admirable evenness of tone,” Faith Sherman has enjoyed successes on both the operatic and concert stages. The Wilton, Connecticut native is in her second year as a young artist with the Juilliard Opera Center.

Her 2006-07 season includes performances of Mozart’s Requiem for the 9-11 Memorial Concert at Carnegie Hall, “Songs of Peace and War” with the New York Festival of Song at Juilliard, Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide as Clytemnestre and Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera as Ramiro with the Juilliard Opera Center. She returns to the Wolf Trap Opera Company to sing Erminella in Volpone by John Musto and the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte.

Ms. Sherman’s 2005-06 season highlights included appearances with the Juilliard Opera Center in the roles of Fay Doyle in the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Miss Lonelyhearts, and Hermia in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. To celebrate the Juilliard School's centennial year, she appeared at Zankel Hall with pianist Brian Zeger for the “Juilliard Young Artists and their Mentors” concert, performed Rachmaninoff songs for a Juilliard Liederabend and joined the New York Festival of Song in their concert “100 years of Juilliard Composers in Song.”

In the summer of 2006 Ms. Sherman debuted with the Wolf Trap Opera Company as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, sang the role of Alice in Rossini’s Le Comte d’Ory, appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra as Gertrude in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliet, and collaborated with Steven Blier on the Spanish Treasure Recital. She was featured as an improvisational artist in Wolf Trap’s “Instant Opera!”.

In the 2004-2005 season Ms. Sherman performed Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody with the Cincinnati Conservatory Orchestra, and sang Mrs. Allan in Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe. She performed dual roles as both the Mother and Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel and appeared as Carmen in the Concert Orchestra Gala concert. In the summer of 2005 Faith Sherman participated in the San Francisco Opera Center Merola Program, where she sang the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola in the Opera Scenes program at Yerba Buena Gardens and was presented in the Merola Grand Finale Concert at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera house under the baton of Valéry Rifkin.

In 2003 Ms. Sherman sang Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ilona Ritter in She Loves Me, and Nancy in Albert Herring (scenes) with Eastman Opera Theatre.

Faith Sherman received her B. Mus. from Eastman School of Music and did graduate work at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She is a semi-finalist in the 2007 Houston Grand Opera Auditions, a recipient of a 2006 Shouse Educational Grant from Wolf Trap Opera, winner of the 2004 Dayton Opera Competition, winner of the 2004 Norman Treigle Memorial Award at CCM, and was awarded a 2002-2003 fellowship award to Music Academy of the West.

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