Performance Year: 2022, 2026
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). Ms. Burkhart is an in-demand soloist and has sung numerous 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, and for several seasons, she has been a summer soloist with CORO Vocal Artists at the Des Moines Choral Festival.
On the operatic stage, Erika has performed the roles of 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 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Arizona District and won first place in the Marguerite Ough Competition and President’s Competition at the University of Arizona.
Erika 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. She earned both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Arizona and continues to call Tucson home.
