Voices of Our Time: Vocal Competition All-Stars Program

JASON ZACHER | Bass-baritone
HOMETOWN: Livingston, NJ
2023 Vocal Competition,
Encouragement Award Winner
PREVIOUS: Snug, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(The Atlanta Opera); Bass Soloist, Handel Messiah
(Carnegie Hall); Count Ceprano, Rigoletto (The
Atlanta Opera); Argante, Rinaldo (The Glimmerglass
Festival); Alidoro, La Cenerentola (Kentucky Opera);
Colline, La bohème (Kentucky Opera)
UPCOMING: Bass Soloist, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass
(Carnegie Hall); Uncle/Witness 9, Elizabeth Cree
(The Glimmerglass Festival)
JUSTINA LEE | Collaborative Pianist
HOMETOWN: San Francisco, CA
American collaborative artist Justina Lee has
served as assistant conductor, pianist, and coach
for such companies such as the Metropolitan
Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera,
Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Castleton Festival,
and Wolf Trap Opera Company. She is a frequent
collaborator with acclaimed tenor Lawrence
Brownlee and has appeared with him on National
Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Recital
highlights include collaborations with Alyson
Cambridge, Gordon Hawkins, Kate Lindsey, Linda
Mabbs, Lisette Oropesa, Dimitri Pittas, and Tamara
Wilson. Ms. Lee has appeared under the auspices
of the Marilyn Horne Foundation residency program
and on recital series that include On Wings of Song
at Carnegie Hall, the Harriman-Jewell Series, the
Washington Performing Arts Series at The Kennedy
Center, and on Renée Fleming’s VOICES recital
series. She can also be seen on medici.tv as a
pianist for Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute
masterclasses with Joyce DiDonato.
Ms. Lee is an alumna of the distinguished
Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
at The Metropolitan Opera and holds degrees
from the University of California, Los Angeles,
and the Manhattan School of Music. She served
as Principal Coach of the Maryland Opera Studio
at the University of Maryland, College Park from
2008-2022, and is on faculty at the Prague Summer
Nights Music Festival. She joined the faculty at
the Juilliard School in 2022 as Associate Artistic
Director of Vocal Arts with a focus on the Bachelor
of Music degree program.
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