What are our singers up to? Here’s just a few!
BROADWAY/NATIONAL TOUR
2016 Gold Medalist Michael Maliakel is starring as Aladdin on Broadway
2021 Finalist Anastasia Talley has joined the Broadway company of MJ The Musical, following her time wtih Girl from the North Country
After her big break as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, 2017 Gold Medalist Julie Benko joins the company of Barry Manilow’s new Broadway show, Harmony.
2019 Finalist Christian Douglas is understudying both Christian and the Duke on the National Tour of Moulin Rouge!
2021 Johnny Mercer Award Winner Jonathan Christopher makes his Broadway debut in the new Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd.
2019 People’s Choice Winner Gillian Hassert joins the Oklahoma! National Tour company as the understudy for Aunt Eller and Gertie Cummings
Multi-year Finalist and Silver Medalist Bex Odorisio joins the Hadestown National Tour as a Fate
2021 People’s Choice Winner Dee Roscioli takes on Broadway-bound Sing Street.
OPERA
2021 Semifinalist Will Liverman won a Grammy award for his starring turn as Charles in Fire Shut Up In My Bones, and has received two more nominations for his solo albums. His new opera The Factotum was well-received at Chicago Lyric Opera.
2014 Gold Medalist Mikki Sodergren joined the full-time roster for the Metropolitan Opera Chorus in the 22/23 season.
2016 Semifinalist Jasmine Muhammad has joined the full-time roster for the Metropolitan Opera Chorus in the 22/23 season..
2020 Silver Medalist Jasmine Habersham will star this season as Gilda in Rigoletto with Utah Opera, will sing Susanna in Le Nozze with Madison Opera, will sing Sophie in Wether with Houston Grand Opera and will perform with Rochester and Dallas Symphonies.
2022 Finalist Elizabeth Baldwin sings the soprano solo in Verdi’s Requiem with the Savannah Philharmonic in May 2024.
2016 Bronze Medalist Aundi Moore won the 2023 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, and made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2020 as Strawberry Woman in the Grammy-award winning production of Porgy and Bess.
2021 Semi Finalist Jessica Fishenfeld put her operatic skills on display as she sang “O Mio Babbino Caro” while performing an aerial routine on America’s Got Talent in 2022.
2022 Finalist Lisa Marie Rogali sings Mércèdes in Carmen and covered Maria in The Sound of Music in the Glimmerglass Festival, summer 2022.
JAZZ
2019 Quarterfinalist April May Webb won 2nd place in the 2021 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition
2019 Semifinalist Cyrille Aimée named Artist-in-Residence at Miami Frost School of Music for the 2021-22 school year
2021 Gold Medalist Nicole Zuraitis will release a new album, co-produced by Christian McBride in spring 2023, and will perform a solo show with the Asheville Symphony in spring 2023.
2022 Finalist Lucy Yeghizaryan will perform at the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Emmet Cohen and friends in Fall 2022.
2022 People’s Choice Winner and 2021 Ben Tucker Jazz Award Winner Melinda Rose Rodriguez headlined the Great American Songbook Academy in summer 2022.
2017 Silver Medalist Dara Tucker recently released her fourth album, Dreams of Waking; Music for a Better World
GRAMMYS
2021 Semifinalist Will Liverman’s debut album Dreams of a New Day - Songs by Black Composers has received a nomination for a 2022 Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.
2019 Gold Medalist Mykal Kilgore released his debut album A Man Born Black. The lead single, “Let Me Go” was nominated for the 2021 Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
2019 Johnny Mercer Award winner Cyrille Aimée’s rendition of Stephen Sondheim's 'Mary Me a Little' -- from her album Move On, earned her a 2019 Grammy nomination for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals,
2014 Gold Medalist Mikki Sodergren performed with the Clarion Choir for a Grammy win in 2021 for Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Prison for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, in addition to two 2021 nomination for Best Choral Performance, Classical, and for Producer of the Year, Classical for Kastalsky’s Requiem, and a 2019 Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance, Classical for Kastalsky’s Memory Eternal.
2015 Award winner and 2021 Gold Medalist Nicole Zuraitis’ performance of Jolene was nominated for BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS in the 2018 Grammy Awards.
2018 People’s Choice Award winner Brian Giebler’s debut album, A Lad’s Love, earned a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.