American soprano Ilana Davidson has been internationally acclaimed for her crystalline soprano, assured musicality and interpretive insight, with a repertoire spanning the 12th to the 21st centuries. Her recording of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience conducted by Leonard Slatkin won four Grammy Awards in 2006 including Best Classical Album. She has closely collaborated with such composers as William Bolcom, John Zorn and Bright Sheng.

Ms. Davidson's association with the music of the Austrian composer Ernst Krenek began with rapturously received performances as the Queen in Das Geheime Königreich at the Krenek Festival in Vienna and Die Nachtigall with the Austrian Chamber Symphony. The former spawned a series of projects dedicated to the composer's works including solo debut recording of his lieder, a recital tour, as well as performances and a new recording of his opera What Price Confidence.

In the 2007-2008 season Ms. Davidson sang the world premiere of Libby Larson's opera Everyman Jack, and made her Alice Tully Hall debut as the Wife in Philip Glass/Robert Moran's The Juniper Tree, earning unanimous critical acclaim for both. Also this past season she made her debuts with both the Houston Symphony and the Toledo Symphony in Carmina Burana, Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in Philadelphia as well as a performance of the Bach B minor Mass with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Space in New York City.

Ms. Davidson's other operatic roles include Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Amor in Gluck's Orfeo, Chef der Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, and Erste Blumenmädchen in Parsifal, all performed in the Netherlands; Flora in The Turn of the Screw and Amore in L'incoronazione di Poppea with the Florida Grand Opera, Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore and Gilda in Rigoletto.

Other career highlights include two engagements at New York's Carnegie Hall: Songs of Innocence and of Experience with Mto. Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony, and Mahler's Second Symphony with Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic. She made her Avery Fisher Hall debut in Carl Orff's Trionfo di Afrodite with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2008, Ms. Davidson sang with the Monadnock Music Festival as well making her debut in the role of Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea with the Staunton Music Festival. She returned to Monadnock in the summer of 2009 as well as the Berkshire Choral Festival as Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore.

In the 2008-2009 season Ms. Davidson sang Carmina Burana with the Edmonton Symphony, Reading Symphony and the Alabama Symphony, Fauré’s Requiem with the Charlotte Symphony and Mahler's Second Symphony at Symphony Hall with the Boston Philharmonic. In season 2009- 2010 Ms. Davidson will sing Amor in Gluck's Orphée et Euridice with the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Haydn's Creation with the Harrisburg Symphony, J.S. Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium and the solo cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

Equally at home in the Baroque repertoire, Ms. Davidson has regularly performed as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's as part of their Cantatas in Context since 2001. For her debut with Boston's distinguished Handel and Haydn Society (2007) she performed Bach's Cantatas BWV 49 and 58. Other early-music engagements include Cupid in Purcell's King Arthur in Stuttgart, Amor in Legrenzi's La Divisione del Mondo conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock in a co-production with the Austrian festivals of Innsbruck and Schwetzingen; Handel's Messiah with the Pacific, Ann Arbor, Alabama, Nashville, and National Philharmonic; the Angel in Schütz's A Christmas Story at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (broadcast live on NPR); and Haydn's Creation with Philadelphia's Voces Novae et Antiquae. Her strong affiliation with the music of Mozart has been heard in programs of the composer's arias with the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam; Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the National Philharmonic; Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with the Vlaamse Opera and Staatsoper Stuttgart; and the Requiem with the Schleierbacher Chamber Orchestra and Harrisburg Symphony. In summer 2007 she sang Mozart's Mass in C Minor at the Berkshire Choral Festival.

A prolific recording artist, other recent and forthcoming recordings include Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley (Capriccio), Stanley Kubrick's Mountain Home by Paul Elwood and What Price Confidence by Ernst Krenek (Capriccio). Conductors with whom she has collaborated include Leonard Slatkin, Alan Gilbert, Jaap van Zweden, Keith Lockhart, Reinbert de Leeuw, Oliver Knussen, Stuart Malina, Harry Bicket, Carl St. Clair, Michael Riesman, Lothar Zagrosek, Thomas Hengelbrock, Reinbert de Leeuw, Thierry Fischer and Claus Peter Flor.

Ms. Davidson is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music. She was a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and a participant in the Aston Magna Early Music Academy.