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Sharla Nafziger, soprano...

b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up March 2008 "Nafziger has it all: a superb natural voice, excellent training, profound sensitivity and intelligence," sums up the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, adding she is "a real talent to follow" who is "blessed with a naturally beautifully voice." Others describe her instrument as "radiant and clear" (Edmonton Journal), "seraphic" (Calgary Herald), "sparkling and vivid" (Boston Herald), and "delightful" (Gramophone). With such accolades it is no wonder that this Canadian soprano has established herself as a premier coloratura with impressive engagements to her credit, among them her debut at Tanglewood as Nanetta in Falstaff under Seiji Ozawa, later broadcast on NPR. An impressive array of debuts marks Nafziger’s 2007/08 season. She sings Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Vancouver Symphony, appears with the Winnipeg Symphony in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, and performs Messiah with the Monterey Symphony under Christoph Campestrini. Her Kennedy Center debut later in the season with John Adam’s El Niño and the Choral Arts Society of Washington showcases her strong affinity for contemporary music as does the North American premiere of Beat Furrer’s Invocation #6 with the Argento Ensemble at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. A regular guest of the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, FL, she returns for the 2008 festival to sing Haydn’s Creation and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and returns to Carnegie Hall to sing John Rutter’s Requiem. The 2006/07 season brought a return to the New York City Opera as Frasquita and Juliete in Die tote Stadt. She was also heard in Messiah with both the National Philharmonic Orchestra (MD) and the Pensacola Symphony, Bach’s St. John Passion with Winter Park Bach Festival, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Shenadoah Valley Bach Festival, and returned to Carnegie Hall to sing Fauré’s Requiem and Schubert’s Mass in G. She took part in the orchestral premiere of Larry Nelson’s Seven Clay Songs with Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia, the song version of which she had recorded on Albany Records and premiered in 2004. She also recorded Scott Wheeler’s opera The Contruction of Boston on the Naxos label. In 2005, Nafziger joined the roster of New York City Opera in the role of Corinna (cover, Il Viaggio a Reims), and sang the title role in Pasatieri’s opera La Divina with Opera Company of Brooklyn. Other engagements included Messiah and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, Faure’s Requiem with Voices of Ascension (NYC), Elijah with the Winter Park Bach Festival (FL), Les Noces at Trinity Church Wall Street (NYC) and Carmina Burana with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Her summer engagements for 2006 included the premiere of Kieren MacMillan’s Drunken Moon, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and B Minor Mass with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival (VA). Among other highlights figure performances with the Buffalo Philharmonic, National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, El Paso Opera, and the symphonies of Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Nova Scotia, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, and the Tafelmusik Chamber Orchestra, among others. In addition to the above mentioned recordings, Nafziger can be heard on the Naxos label in Lully’s Ballet Music for the Sun King with the Aradia Ensemble, the Telarc label as Die Erste Elfe in Strauss’ Die Agyptische Helena with the American Symphony Orchestra. Later this year a new release on the ERM Media label will feature her in the premiere of Boaz Tarsi’s Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra. s h o r t - b i o g r a p h y .....(250 words)...........back to roster....up Soprano Sharla Nafziger has performed over sixty works in the oratorio and concert repertoire including the major works of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Orff. She has appeared with symphony orchestras, choral societies and festivals across North America, including recent and upcoming debuts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, and the Elora Festival (Canada). In 2005 She joined the roster of New York City Opera in the role of Corinna (Il Viaggio a Reims, cover), and returns there for the 2006-07 Season in Carmen (Fraquita), Die Tote Stadt (Juliette) and Cosi fan Tutte (Despina). Other operatic roles include Nannetta , Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Ilia, Norina, Gilda, Konstanze, Frasquita, Zerlina, and Belinda. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Oratorio Society of New York in 2002, with whom she has since appeared several times at the Hall. She made her New York recital debut at Merkin Hall as the 2001 winner of Joy in Singing, and has performed in recital across her native Canada and in Germany. Ms Nafziger has a keen interest in contemporary music, having performed works by Boulez, Danielpour, Crumb, Varèse, Henze, Canadian composers Holman, Somers and Hétu, and most recently two new recordings of new works by American composers Larry Nelson (on Albany Records) and Boaz Tarsi (on ERM Media). She can also be heard on the Naxos label in Lully’s Ballet Music for the Sun King, and the Telarc label in Die Agytische Helena (Erste Elfe). s h o r t - b i o g r a p h y .....(150 words)...........back to roster....up Soprano Sharla Nafziger has performed over sixty works in the oratorio and concert repertoire, and has appeared with opera companies, symphony orchestras, choral societies and festivals across North America, including recent and upcoming debuts with New York City Opera, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, and the Elora Festival (Canada). She has appeared in recital across her native Canada and in Germany and made her New York recital debut at Merkin Hall as the 2001 winner of Joy in Singing. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2002 with the Oratorio Society of New York. She can be heard on the Naxos label in Lully’s Ballet Music for the Sun King, the Telarc label in Die Agytische Helena (Erste Elfe), on Albany Records in the premiere recording of Larry Nelson’s Clay Songs, and soon to be released on the ERM label, the premiere recording of Boaz Tarsi’s Concerto for Soprano. click here to read Sharla Nafziger's resume (MS Word) b i o......r e s u m e......r e p e r t o i r e......r e v i e w s back to roster...up . . . .

r e p e r t o i r e...........back to roster....up Concert BACH — Mass in B minor BACH — Weihnachtsoratorium BACH — Magnificat BACH — St. John Passion BACH — St. Matthew Passion BARBER — Knoxville: Summer of 1915 BEETHOVEN — Symphony #9 BRAHMS — Ein Deutsches Requiem BOULEZ — Improvisations sur BOULEZ — Mallarmé I & II CARISSIMI — Jephte: Filia CRUMB — Apparition (portions) CRUMB — Madrigals Book II DANIELPOUR — Sonnets to Orpheus DEBUSSY — La Damoiselle Élue DVORAK — Te Deum FAURÉ — Requiem HANDEL — Dixit Dominus HANDEL — Solomon (Queen Act I, First Woman) HANDEL — Israel in Egypt HANDEL — Messiah HAYDN — Theresienmesse HAYDN — The Creation HAYDN — Lord Nelson Mass HENZE — Being Beauteous HOLMAN — Requiem MAHLER — Symphony No. 4 MOZART — Coronation Mass MOZART — Requiem MOZART — Great Mass in C Minor MOZART — Solemn Vespers MOZART — Exultate Jubilate MENDELSSOHN — Elijah ORFF — Carmina Burana POULENC — Stabat Mater POULENC — Gloria PURCELL — The Fairy Queen VAUGHAN WILLIAMS — Dona Nobis Pacem RESPIGHI — Lauda per la Nativita del Signore SCHOENBERG — Pierrot Lunaire STRAVINSKY — Les Noces VARÈSE — Offrandes VIVALDI — Gloria VIVALDI — Magnificat Opera BEETHOVEN — Fidelio — Marzelline BIZET — Carmen — Frasquita* BRITTEN — A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Tytania BRITTEN — The Rape of Lucretia — Lucia * DONIZETTI — Don Pasquale — Norina * DONIZETTI — L’Elisir d’Amore — Adina DONIZETTI — Lucia di Lamermoor — Lucia** Korngold — Die Tote Stadt — Juliette* Mozart — Cosi fan Tutte — Despina* (cover) MOZART — La Clemenza di Tito — Servilia MOZART — Don Giovanni — Zerlina * MOZART — Die Entführung aus dem Serail — Blöndchen, Konstanze* MOZART — Idomeneo — Ilia * MOZART — Der Schauspieldirektor — Mlle. Silberklang * MOZART — Die Zauberflöte — Pamina MOZART — L’Oca del Cairo — Celidora * PURCELL — Dido and Aeneas — Belinda * RAVEL — L’Enfant et les Sortilèges — Le Feu Rossini — Il Viaggio a Reims — Corinna* (cover) STRAUSS, R. — Der Rosenkavalier — Sophie VERDI — Falstaff — Nannetta * VERDI — Rigoletto — Gilda*, Contessa Ceprano, Giovanna *, Paggio* VERDI — Un Ballo in Maschera — Oscar     * role performed **in progress b i o......r e s u m e......r e p e r t o i r e......r e v i e w s back to roster...up . . . .

r e v i e w s...........back to roster....up “Her tones are radiant and clear, and her voice floats nicely. Her contribution to ‘He shall feed his flock’ was touching.” Messiah: Edmonton Journal “Sharla Nafziger contributed to the overall effect of the performance, her voice seraphic and nicely floated.” Carmina Burana: Calgary Herald “The vocal airs are delightful. The two sopranos (Haines and Nafziger) are very good indeed.” Ballet Music for the Sun King: Gramphone “Blessed with a naturally beautiful voice...a real talent to follow.” Messiah: Kitchener-Waterloo Record “The surprise was soprano Sharla Nafziger as Norina, whose strong coloratura and charming acting speak of tremendous talent.” Don Pasquale: Opera Canada “But the female star was unmistakably Sharla Nafziger’s Nannetta. A sparkling clear and vivid soprano, with a graceful tone and easy upfront voice, Nafziger brought life and energy to the role of the lovelorn servant. Falstaff: Boston Herald “Sharla Nafziger sang Nannetta with a silvery shimmer.” Falstaff: Boston Globe “Sharla Nafziger...shone as Nannetta, especially in high, moon-struck stretches.” Falstaff: Opera News “...A constant delight. Her voice is clean and sure. Exquisite emotional expressions…” Merkin Hall Recital Debut: New York Concert Review b i o......r e s u m e......r e p e r t o i r e......r e v i e w s back to roster...up . . . .