Music Alumna Natalie Lewis ’21 Wins First Place in Houston Grand Opera’s “Concert of Arias”
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Natalie Lewis ’21, a voice alumna from the UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance, took first place in the Houston Grand Opera’s “Concert of Arias” over the weekend. The full competition can be viewed via Facebook, with Natalie’s performance beginning at approx. 1:20:00.
Her win is the latest accomplishment in the singer's already-impressive career. In 2021, just prior to graduating, Lewis was awarded a prestigious Kovner Fellowship to attend The Juilliard School in New York City so that she could pursue her Master of Music in Vocal Arts.
Lewis distinguished herself during her time at UMass through her participation in the UMass Chamber Choir and Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and in productions like Mozart’s The Magic Flute by UMass Opera, in which she performed the role of Third Lady to the Queen of the Night.
Natalie has participated in numerous summer young artist programs including Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artists’ Vocal Academy, Opera Neo, the American Institute for Music Studies in Graz, Austria, and Aspen Music Festival where she got the chance to work closely with Renee Fleming and Maestro Patrick Summers as a Fleming Artist. Natalie will be making her Carnegie Hall debut in April 2023 singing the Alto solos in Marianna Martines’ Dixit Dominusand Bela Bartok’s Three Village Scenes. This coming summer Natalie will attend the prestigious Merola program of San Fransco Opera where she perform the titular role in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.