About Meredith
Meredith Wohlgemuth is an American Soprano and is based in Hannover, Germany
In April 2023, Meredith was a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Domique Laffont Competition. In October 2023, Meredith also won the 1st Prize at the Internationaler Schubert LiedDuo-Wettbewerb in Dortmund with pianist Jinhee Park.
In August 2023, Meredith sang the role of Ilia at The Aspen Music Festival and School as a Renee Fleming Artist. She also made her house debut at the Staatsoper Hannover, where she is now in the ensemble.
Last season, Meredith received the Mélodie Premier Prix at the Concours musical international de Montreal. In addition to the first prize, she won the Joseph Rouleau Career Development Grant (50k) , Normand Beauchamp Winner’s Tour Grant (15k) and the French Mélodie Art Song Award with her duo partner Jinhee Park.
Meredith was one of the seven winners of the Sullivan Foundation Grants in New York City. In August 2022, she sang a main role in the US Premiere of “Lessons in Love and Violence” by George Benjamin, with the composer at the podium, as part of Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music.
She made her debut at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY, performing in a collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects, “21c Liederabend”. Last January, Meredith made her debut at Carnegie Hall as a Renée Fleming SongStudio Young Artist. And in March, she performed at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and at Merkin Hall in NYC as a Schwab Vocal Rising Star in association with NYFOS (New York Festival of Song) with Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois.
In the 2020/2021 season, Meredith performed Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel at the Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory. In February, she was a Resident Artist at Opera Naples where she performed Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata and A girl/Francisca in Bernstein’s West Side Story under the direction of Maestro Ramón Tebar and alongside Isabel Leonard. At the beginning of the Pandemic, Meredith premiered new works virtually by composers J.P. Redmond and Marina Lee and also became a member of the TOE Ensemble (That One Ensemble), where they write and perform new work for unique causes and various Nonprofit organizations in NYC. In the summer of 2020, Meredith was a recipient of the Novick Career Advancement Grant, and the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Grant. In July 2021, Mer was a Finalist in The American Prize Competition: The Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award.
In the 2019/2020 Season, Ms. Wohlgemuth performed Despina in Juilliard’s new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte under the direction of Maestro Nimrod Pfeffer in The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. In February 2020, she performed in a live-streamed masterclass with Renée Fleming at The Juilliard School and performed her graduate recital at Juilliard where she premiered new works by composer Nick Marsella. In March 2020, Meredith performed Debussy’s Nocturnes with the New York Philharmonic and Isabel Leonard under the direction of Louis Langrée at David Geffen Hall at The Lincoln Center.
In the 2018/2019 Season, Meredith began her Masters studies at The Juilliard School and made her Lincoln Center debut as Tirsi in the Handel cantata Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno with Juilliard 415 under the direction of Maestro Paul Agnew. In December 2018, Meredith was the Soprano Soloist in performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria and Monteverdi’s Magnificat at The Church of the Transfiguration in downtown NYC. In February 2019, Ms. Wohlgemuth performed Belinda in a touring production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas alongside Juilliard 415, with performances at London’s Holland Park and Versailles Opéra Royal. In June 2019, she performed Tytania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The Chautauqua Institution.
In 2016, she was a young artist at The Harrower Opera Workshop Summer Program in Atlanta, Georgia, where she sang her first full operatic role, Nerone, in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.
From 2013-2017, Meredith placed 1st and 2nd in many regional and state competitions in Florida where she was born and raised. In Regional NATS Competitions, she won 2nd Place in the classical voice division in 2016 and 2017. In State NATS, she won 1st place in the classical and musical theatre divisions in 2015, and 2nd Place in the classical voice division in 2013 and 2016. She was the recipient of the Silver Garland Award for Excellence in Music in 2014, and was a 2nd Place winner in the Tuesday Music Club Competition in central Florida.
Meredith grew up performing in musicals and singing since she was 7 years old. She performed in musicals around central Florida in shows such Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (wife, 2014), The Wizard of Oz (china maiden, 2009), Annie (Orphan Kate, 2007), Scapino (Giacinta/Waiter, 2013), Alice in Wonderland (Alice, 2006), Charlottes Web (The cat, 2005), Le Petit Prince (Rose, 2005), The Mad Adventures of Mr. Toad (Chief Mouse, 2004), and Nuncrackers (youngest child, 2001).
During her time at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska, Meredith founded and directed the Concordia Opera Scenes Program and was the student conductor of the A Capella Choir from 2017-2018. She also maintained her own private voice studio of around 20 young singers from 2016-2018.
Meredith received her Master of Music degree in Vocal Arts from The Juilliard School in 2020 and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance from Concordia University, Nebraska in 2018.
All photography by Eva Zar