SOPRANO
Ms. LeMesh has quickly been garnering attention in international competitions. In April 2024, Ms. LeMesh won First Prize in The Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition hosted at Weill Recital Hall, and in March 2024, she won Third Prize & Audience Choice in the Josep Palet International Singing Competition in Martorell, Spain. Additional wins include the Grand Prize in the Federation of Art Song Competition with her collaborative partner, pianist Allegra Chapman. Highlights of her 2023-24 season include Poulenc's Gloria at Carnegie Hall and Marie in Donizetti's La fille du régiment with the Opera Company of Middlebury.
Updated April 2024
Ms. LeMesh's 2023-2024 performance season includes debuts with West Bay Opera, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, Carnegie Hall, and the Opera Company of Middlebury. She also joined Opera Philadelphia to cover the role of Nellie in Rene Orth's 10 Days in a Madhouse.
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ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS
Soprano Soloist
Poulenc's Gloria
Carnegie Hall
March 2024
Brooklyn Art Song Society
Six chansons françaises & Fiançailles pour rire
January 2024
Isabel Perón Corpus Evita
West Bay Opera
February 2024
Marie
La fille du régiment
Opera Company of Middlebury
June 2024
Ms. LeMesh won First Prize in The Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition and the Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Competition. She also made her Carnegie Hall debut in Stern Auditorium as the soprano soloist in Poulenc's Gloria in March 2024.
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First Prize Winner
The Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition
April
2024
Ms. LeMesh won First Prize in the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition hosted in Weill Recital Hall. Since 1977 the Oratorio Society of New York has hosted a solo competition to encourage the art of oratorio singing and to give young singers an opportunity to advance their careers.
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GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Federation of the Art Song Fellowship
Sara LeMesh and pianist Allegra Chapman won First Prize in the Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Award Competition in November 2023. The dynamic pair offered a diverse program featuring works by underrepresented composers in a variety of languages, including Yiddish, Ladino, Polish, French, and German. They will debut their program, Voices of Identity: Songs of the Jewish Diaspora, at the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University and Princeton, New Jersey in the Spring of 2024.
“One of those songs, “Sveitaar, sveimen var Kvieoinen: ‘Koorwei, Koorwei’ ” pushed Sara LeMesh’s plush soprano into expressively guttural depths.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES