American soprano Elizabeth Keusch is rapidly emerging as an artist to watch and has already been heard in major venues worldwide. She has performed recently in Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and composer/conductor Thomas Ades in works by Castiglioni and Kurtag and in the Seattle Chamber Players’ Icebreaker III Festival. Ms. Keusch made her Arizona Opera debut in the past season as Polly Peachum in Bernard Uzan’s production of Kurt Weill’s Three Penny Opera conducted by George Hanson. The 2005-06 season also saw her debut with Washington DC Choral Arts Society in Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Norman Scribner, and with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Elliott Carter’s Tempo e tempi, conducted by Scott Yoo. Successive engagements since 2003 with Maestro Helmut Rilling of the Oregon Bach Festival and Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart include Handel’s Belshazzar (role of Nitocres), Jeptha (role of Iphis), the Bach Magnificat, Bach Cantatas 14, 36, 112, 140, 147, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and C Minor Mass and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. In Spring 2005 she performed Elijah with Maestro Rilling in her Seattle Symphony debut.

Ms. Keusch holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas, a Master’s of Music Degree and an Artist Diploma from New England Conservatory. While at New England Conservatory she was named the 2001 Presidential Scholar for the Conservatory. The soprano was a Tanglewood Fellow in summers 1997 and 1999. Elizabeth Keusch resides in Worcester, Massachusetts.