Performance Year: 2022
Soprano Erika Burkhart has been praised for having a voice that is “simply sublime,” with “a breadth of colors … from bright and mischievous to somber and resonant” (Arizona Daily Star). Erika has sung masterworks including J.S. Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Mozart’s Requiem and Fauré’s Requiem, as well as works by Monteverdi, J.C. Bach, Buxtehude and Schütz. She is a regular soloist and ensemble member with Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra. For several seasons, she has been summer soloist with CORO Vocal Artists at the Des Moines Choral Festival.
On the operatic stage, she has performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina in Così fan tutte and Helen Archdale in the American premiere of Elena Langer’s Rhondda Rips It Up! She also performed for two seasons as a teaching artist with Arizona Opera. Erika is a previous winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Arizona District, and has won first place in the Marguerite Ough Competition and the University of Arizona President’s Concerto Competition.
Erika has studied art song performance at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and was invited to SongFest in Los Angeles as a Brown Loranger Fellow. Erika earned both her bachelor and master of music degrees from the University of Arizona. She makes her home in Tucson.
