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The American soprano, Teresa Wakim, completed her studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. She was soon named a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow at Emmanuel Music in Boston, and won First Prize in the International Soloist Competition for Early Music in Brunnenthal, Austria.
With “a gorgeous, profoundly expressive instrument,” and as “a bejeweled lyric soprano with an exquisite top register,” Teresa Wakim is perhaps best known as “a perfect early music voice.” The last several seasons have seen her make solo debuts at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Boston Symphony Hall, Grand Théâtre de Provence, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Opéra Royal at Versailles.
Teresa Wakim has appeared with many of the nation’s premier orchestras. She has sung J.S. Bach's Wedding Cantata Weichet nur betrübte Schatten (BWV 202) and Felix Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer with The Cleveland Orchestra, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with the Charlotte, Tucson, Alabama and San Antonio Symphonies, J.S. Bach’s Missa Brevis with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, W.A. Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with New World Symphony, Antonio Vivaldi’s In furore iustissime irae with San Antonio Symphony, J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) with Louisiana Philharmonic, Orff’s Carmina Burana with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem with the Omaha Symphony.
In addition, Teresa Wakim's affinity for the Baroque has brought her much success as a frequent soloist with many of the world’s best period instrument ensembles, including the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Director: Ton Koopman), Wiener Akademie, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival, Boston Baroque (Director: Martin Pearlman), Dallas Bach Society, Pacific Musicworks, Early Music Vancouver, Handel Choir of Baltimore, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell), Tragicomedia, and Mercury Baroque Orchestra.
Teresa Wakim has portrayed and recorded multiple operas from Monteverdi to W.A. Mozart, specializing in operas of the French Baroque with the Boston Early Music Festival, and sang the roles of Flore, Aréthuse, and Daphne on their 2015 GRAMMY-Winning Best Opera Recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs. She can also be heard on numerous recordings with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival, Musik Ekklesia, and Seraphic Fire. She currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. |
