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“With a voice of lambent beauty,” soprano Teresa Wakim enjoys an internationally successful career as soloist in opera, oratorio, and chamber music. She has sung in many of the world’s most renowned halls, including Severance Hall in Cleveland, Royal Albert Hall in London under Sir Roger Norrington, Carnegie’s Zankel Hall under Ton Koopman, and Boston’s Symphony Hall, Sander’s Theater, and Jordan Hall.

She completed her undergraduate vocal studies with distinction at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying with Lorraine Manz, and pursued a master’s degree at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts in the studio of Penelope Bitzas, focusing on the performance of baroque vocal music with Martin Pearlman, Peter Sykes, and Joshua Rifkin. Her studies have taken her abroad to Lisbon, Salzburg, Vancouver, Lausanne, and Venice. She received her master’s with musical distinction, served as Emerging Artist in Residence with the Back Bay Chorale in 2006-07, was finalist for the vocal competition for Les Arts Florissants, Les Jardin des Voix in 2004. 

She has performed with the acclaimed ensembles of Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, the Boston Early Music Festival, Seraphic Fire, Boston Secession, and Apollo’s Fire. Her musical interests extend to smaller ensembles as well, including Exsultemus, Sprezzatura, Bourbon Baroque, La Donna Musicale, Amphion’s Lyre, L’Académie, The Sun’s Darlings, Les Bostonades, and Newton Baroque. She is also a frequent guest soloist at the Amherst, Connecticut, and Boston Early Music Festivals. Ms. Wakim is featured on two Grammy-nominated recordings of Lully operas with the Boston Early Music Festival for CPO.  

Engagements for the 2009-2010 season include premiere performances of new works with the Boston Choral Ensemble and Coro Allegro, recording her role as Diane in Charpentier’s Actéon with The Boston Early Music Festival in Germany, Bach’s glorious cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with the St. Alban’s Bach Festival Orchestra in North Carolina, Handel’s Messiah across southern Florida with Seraphic Fire, a solo appearance with the Handel & Haydn Society in their Zest for Love concert in February, and the role of Morgana in Handel’s Alcina in Louisville with Bourbon Baroque.