Instrument: Soprano
Lauded as “someone to watch” by Paula Citron of The Globe and Mail and Opera Canada, Ellen Wieser has appeared in lead and supporting roles with the Palm Beach Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Chautauqua Opera, the Merola Opera Program, Opera NUOVA, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. On the concert stage, Ellen Wieser has been heard as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Lansing, Kentucky, Baton Rouge, and Winnipeg, at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, with the chamber orchestras of Cincinnati and Manitoba, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and the CCM Philharmonia Orchestra. Ellen Wieser’s 2010-2011 season was highlighted by numerous performances of works by living composers, including Ana Sokolovic’s Tanzer Lieder at the Prince Edward County Music Festival, and world premieres of Children’s Songs by Danny Clay (Cincinnati), the role of Julia Hancock in Meriwether by Jim Lahti (New York City), Three Songs on Poems of Hart Crane by Jim Lahti (Jersey City), and Defora fai sinhes lo firmament by Isaiah Ceccarelli (Montreal).
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