about.
American soprano Libby Sokolowski is currently in the third year of her studies at The Juilliard School in the studio of Edith Wiens, and is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. During her studies thus far, she has sung a wide range of operatic and concert repertoire, ranging from the early baroque to premieres of new works. In the school's currently limited 2020–2021 season, she will sing as Medea in a version of Handel's Teseo in Damrosch Park as part of the Lincoln Center Restart Stages series, led by Maestro Gary Thor Wedow and directed by Stephen Wadsworth, and will participate in a film project of Juilliard Songfest, led by Brian Zeger, singing songs of Gustav Mahler. She will also appear in a Liederabend celebrating American composers, led by Kayo Iwama, with repertoire and capture release date yet to be announced.
Ms. Sokolowski will return this summer to the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt, Germany, where she will perform in two concerts in Nürnberg with the Nürnberg Symphoniker, led by Maestro Benjamin Reiners, and a streamed Operngala and Liederabend in Neumarkt. In her 2021-2022 season, Ms. Sokolowski will make her European debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland, with performances taking place from October 2021–January 2022. She will also participate in the prestigious Fondation des Treilles Académie de la voix in October, led by musicologist Ivan Alexandre, Julien Benhamou of the Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Alain Perroux of the Festival d'Aix and the Opéra National du Rhin with masterclasses by Patrizia Ciofi, exploring the bel canto repertoire.
In her 2019–2020 season, she made her debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, performing twice on the renowned stage: in November, joining Juilliard's AXIOM ensemble in a performance of Stravinksy's Three Japanese Lyrics led by Jeffrey Milarsky, where she was praised for her “fine phrasing” and “articulate, lyrical, and confident” performance; and again in December in Juilliard Songfest, a concert dedicated to the works of Clara and Robert Schumann and led by pianist Brian Zeger. In February of 2020 she was seen as Gertrude Stein in Thomson's The Mother of Us All in a collaboration between the Metropolitan Museum of Art's MetLiveArts Series and the New York Philharmonic, and sang works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Libby Larsen in Juilliard’s Songbook recital. Before the pandemic, she was very much looking forward to collaborating with Juilliard’s Historical Performance division, presenting the works of J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, as well as the premiere of Hannah Ishizaki's "Five Shakespeare Songs," a cycle of songs exploring the women of Shakespeare's literature, written for Ms. Sokolowski and presented in a concert of new music curated by Lydia Brown.
In the summer of 2020, Ms. Sokolowski participated in the Music Academy of the West’s online institute as a replacement for their annual festival, exploring new repertoire and role study with their renowned faculty. She was originally scheduled to sing in both of their staged productions: as Das Taumännchen in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, and Une Pastourelle/Le chauvre-souris in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges. In the summer of 2019, Ms. Sokolowski was an apprentice artist at the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt, Germany. She performed in several concerts including a performance with the Nürnberg Symphoniker led by Maestro Michael Hofstetter, where she was praised by the Mittelbayerische Zeitung for her “authentic and convincing” performance, “getting under the skin of the audience from the first note.”
Ms. Sokolowski will return this summer to the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt, Germany, where she will perform in two concerts in Nürnberg with the Nürnberg Symphoniker, led by Maestro Benjamin Reiners, and a streamed Operngala and Liederabend in Neumarkt. In her 2021-2022 season, Ms. Sokolowski will make her European debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland, with performances taking place from October 2021–January 2022. She will also participate in the prestigious Fondation des Treilles Académie de la voix in October, led by musicologist Ivan Alexandre, Julien Benhamou of the Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Alain Perroux of the Festival d'Aix and the Opéra National du Rhin with masterclasses by Patrizia Ciofi, exploring the bel canto repertoire.
In her 2019–2020 season, she made her debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, performing twice on the renowned stage: in November, joining Juilliard's AXIOM ensemble in a performance of Stravinksy's Three Japanese Lyrics led by Jeffrey Milarsky, where she was praised for her “fine phrasing” and “articulate, lyrical, and confident” performance; and again in December in Juilliard Songfest, a concert dedicated to the works of Clara and Robert Schumann and led by pianist Brian Zeger. In February of 2020 she was seen as Gertrude Stein in Thomson's The Mother of Us All in a collaboration between the Metropolitan Museum of Art's MetLiveArts Series and the New York Philharmonic, and sang works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Libby Larsen in Juilliard’s Songbook recital. Before the pandemic, she was very much looking forward to collaborating with Juilliard’s Historical Performance division, presenting the works of J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, as well as the premiere of Hannah Ishizaki's "Five Shakespeare Songs," a cycle of songs exploring the women of Shakespeare's literature, written for Ms. Sokolowski and presented in a concert of new music curated by Lydia Brown.
In the summer of 2020, Ms. Sokolowski participated in the Music Academy of the West’s online institute as a replacement for their annual festival, exploring new repertoire and role study with their renowned faculty. She was originally scheduled to sing in both of their staged productions: as Das Taumännchen in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, and Une Pastourelle/Le chauvre-souris in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges. In the summer of 2019, Ms. Sokolowski was an apprentice artist at the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt, Germany. She performed in several concerts including a performance with the Nürnberg Symphoniker led by Maestro Michael Hofstetter, where she was praised by the Mittelbayerische Zeitung for her “authentic and convincing” performance, “getting under the skin of the audience from the first note.”