Amelia Watkins

Dubbed “The divine Ms. Watkins” by the New York Times, Canadian soprano Amelia Watkins has performed with leading orchestras and opera companies in Canada, the United States, Asia and Europe. Since her European debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, she has appeared with the Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, the Estates Theatre/National Theatre Prague, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Lincoln Centre, the Tanglewood Music Festival, Verbier Festival, The National Arts Centre, Prototype Festival, and with Musica Viva in Hong Kong, among others. Embracing musical styles from Bach to Berio and beyond, Amelia specializes in the works of living and experimental composers, premiering over 40 new works on national and international stages, and has harmonized with a blender on stage. Amelia has been featured in recording on the multiple Grammy-nominated album Vocabularies with Bobby McFerrin, Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Song From The Uproar, Albany Record’s New Growth, and Cantaloupe Record’s Acquanetta, in art installations at MOMA and the New Museum, and in various commercial and indie film scores. She shares her time between New York and the Laurentians.