This season she joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for her debut covering Elvira in Verdi's Ernani.
In the past year she has won several prestigious awards from some of the world's top vocal competitions. She was one of the six winners of the national level of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; she is the first singer in the history of the Hans Gabor Belvedere International Competition in Vienna to win first place in both the Operetta and Opera Divisions of the competition. She has also been awarded one of the ten coveted scholarships from the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation for continuing assistance and is the first place winner in the opera division of the Liederkranz Competition and a recipient of an encouragement award from the George London Foundation as well as a national winner of the Astral Artistic Services Competition.
Among her long list of honors included are awards from the Giargiari Bel Canto Competition, the Giulio Gari Foundation, the National Opera Association, the Alfonso Cavalieri Memorial Foundation, the Opera Index Vocal Competition, the Jensen Foundation, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Violetta du Pont Opera at Florham Competition, the James Parkinson Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the World Voice Masters Competition in Monaco, the Zachary Foundation, NATS, the Rio Hondo Symphony Competition, the Long Beach Mozart Festival, the Léni Fé Bland Foundation and the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition.
Ms. Meade currently studies voice with Maestro Bill Schuman at the Academyof Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.
While at AVA, she has prepared and performed the roles of Leonora in La forza del destino, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Agathe in Der Freischütz, Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia as well as the soprano solo in Rossini's Stabat Mater.
In the past, she has performed the title role in Handel's Agrippina, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, Die Königin der Nacht and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and the soprano solo in Verdi's Requiem.
She is an alumna of Pacific Lutheran University, BM; and of the University of Southern California, MM. She studied with distinguished professors Mira Frohnmayer, Marcia Baldwin and Gary Glaze respectively.
