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Soprano Ilana Davidson enjoys a busy schedule of opera, concerts, and recitals, performing repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque to the 20th and 21st centuries. Her performances have included William Bolcom’s Songs Of Innocence and of Experience conducted by Leonard Slatkin at Carnegie Hall which earned 4 Grammy Awards, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra which was broadcast live, Mozart Arias at the Royal Concertgebouw Hall, Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in the Netherlands, Krenek’s Das Geheime Königreich in Vienna, Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice and Mahler Symphony No. 2 with the Québec Symphony Orchestra, recital highlights include a tour of the Lieder of Ernst Krenek, New York Festival of Song, appearances with the Bard Music Festival and the Annenberg Center in Palm Desert. Ms. Davidson has performed major works and operatic roles with the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Florida Grand Opera, Nationale Reisopera, Vlaamse Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Berkshire Choral Festival, Harrisburg Symphony, Duke Chapel, Bellingham Music Festival, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Krenek Festival Vienna, Innsbruck Early Music Festival and the Schwetzingen Festspiele.
Recent highlights include Carnegie Hall performances of Mona Lisa (Von Schillings), Der Diktator (Krenek) and Songs From Jewish Folk Poetry (Shostakovich) with the American Symphony Orchestra and TON, a debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Keith Lockhart at the Brevard Music Festival, the Anchorage Symphony, Bellingham Music Festival, Mozart Requiem and Haydn’s Creation, Mozart Requiem with the Bellingham Music Festival, and chamber music festivals in the United States and Canada.
Ilana recently rertuned to the Berkshire Choral Festival in Haydn’s Creation, Mozart Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mahler Symphony No. 2, and 4 with Keith Lockhart at the Brevard Music Festival and with Lancing Symphony Orchestra. She also collaborates with Electric Earth Concerts, the Riverside Choral Society as well as the Riverdale Choral Society as Anne in Annelies by James Whitbourn and Ars Antiqua in works of Haydn.
Ilana has been featured on several commercial recordings including works of Bolcom, Krenek, Weill, Zorn, Britten, Elwood, and more. She has been recognized in several competitions, and was recently awarded a BRIO award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and received the first prize in the Mostly Mozart Competition of Philadelphia and a Sullivan Foundation recipient.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Ilana used her time to explore new repertoire and also create a home recording studio to explore new mediums for communicating her voice, new sounds, and familiar repertoire. She is excited to being booking engagements through the 2022/2023 season.
Ilana received a Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and received an undergraduate degree in Voice Performance from Carnegie Mellon University. Ilana is the artistic director of ClassicalCafé, a music series dedicated to bringing chamber music to intimate settings.
Soprano Ilana Davidson enjoys a busy schedule of opera, concerts, and recitals, performing repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque to the 20th and 21st centuries. Her performances have included William Bolcom’s Songs Of Innocence and of Experience conducted by Leonard Slatkin at Carnegie Hall which earned 4 Grammy Awards, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra which was broadcast live, Mozart Arias at the Royal Concertgebouw Hall, Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in the Netherlands, Krenek’s Das Geheime Königreich in Vienna, Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice and Mahler Symphony No. 2 with the Québec Symphony Orchestra, recital highlights include a tour of the Lieder of Ernst Krenek, New York Festival of Song, appearances with the Bard Music Festival and the Annenberg Center in Palm Desert. Ms. Davidson has performed major works and operatic roles with the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Florida Grand Opera, Nationale Reisopera, Vlaamse Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Berkshire Choral Festival, Harrisburg Symphony, Duke Chapel, Bellingham Music Festival, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Krenek Festival Vienna, Innsbruck Early Music Festival and the Schwetzingen Festspiele.
Recent highlights include Carnegie Hall performances of Mona Lisa (Von Schillings), Der Diktator (Krenek) and Songs From Jewish Folk Poetry (Shostakovich) with the American Symphony Orchestra and TON, a debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Keith Lockhart at the Brevard Music Festival, the Anchorage Symphony, Bellingham Music Festival, Mozart Requiem and Haydn’s Creation, Mozart Requiem with the Bellingham Music Festival, and chamber music festivals in the United States and Canada.
Ilana recently rertuned to the Berkshire Choral Festival in Haydn’s Creation, Mozart Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mahler Symphony No. 2, and 4 with Keith Lockhart at the Brevard Music Festival and with Lancing Symphony Orchestra. She also collaborates with Electric Earth Concerts, the Riverside Choral Society as well as the Riverdale Choral Society as Anne in Annelies by James Whitbourn and Ars Antiqua in works of Haydn.
Ilana has been featured on several commercial recordings including works of Bolcom, Krenek, Weill, Zorn, Britten, Elwood, and more. She has been recognized in several competitions, and was recently awarded a BRIO award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and received the first prize in the Mostly Mozart Competition of Philadelphia and a Sullivan Foundation recipient.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Ilana used her time to explore new repertoire and also create a home recording studio to explore new mediums for communicating her voice, new sounds, and familiar repertoire. She is excited to being booking engagements through the 2022/2023 season.
Ilana received a Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and received an undergraduate degree in Voice Performance from Carnegie Mellon University. Ilana is the artistic director of ClassicalCafé, a music series dedicated to bringing chamber music to intimate settings.