MEG DUDLEY

Hailed for her “sparkling voice” (Opera News) and “full-toned soprano” (New York Classical Review), Meg Dudley has established herself as an in-demand soloist and chamber musician throughout the country. Last season, Ms. Dudley was a featured soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria at Carnegie Hall with Manhattan Concert Productions, in Huang Ruo’s Books of Mountains and Seas at St. Ann’s Warehouse in collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects and Trinity Wall Street, with TENET Vocal Artists in performances with Ensemble Caprice of Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and on tour throughout England and Scotland celebrating the 450th birthday of Tudor composer Thomas Tomkins, at the Berkshire Bach Society in Bach’s BWV 140 and Zelenka’s Magnificat, with St. George Choral Society in Schumann’s Der Rose Pilgerfahrt and Phillip Martin’s Missa Brevis, with the renowned Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Church in NYC in Bach’s BWV 22 and Magnificat, and with Grammy award-winning ensembles Conspirare in collaboration with Isaac Cates and Ordained in Austin’s Long Center, and The Crossing in Philadelphia. In summer 2022, Ms. Dudley appeared at Bard Summerscape covering two roles, Isotta and Häushelterin, in Strauss’s comic opera Die Schweigsame Frau.

In recent seasons, Ms. Dudley’s appearances include singing as the soprano soloist in Hadyn’s Mass in the Time of War and Dan Forrest’s Lux at Carnegie Hall, in Handel’s Messiah and Vaughn William’s Mass in G Minor in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Debussy’s Nocturnes with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Lorelei Ensemble in Boston’s Symphony Hall, in Poulenc’s Gloria with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, in Jocelyn Hagan’s A Mass with the University of Michigan at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, and in Bard Music Festival in Cherubini’s Nemo Gaudeat and in recital celebrating the songs of Puccini.

A highly sought-after ensemble singer, Ms. Dudley works regularly with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Grammy award-winning Conspirare, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Grammy award-winning The Crossing, Apollo’s Fire, TENET Vocal Artists, the New York Philharmonic, the American Classical Orchestra, the Virtuoso Singers, Lorelei Ensemble, Oregon Bach Festival’s Berwick Chorus, and the Bard Festival Singers.

Other career highlights include performing with 50 Cent in a surprise appearance at Radio City Music Hall, celebrating the premier of the Starz Network’s hit show Power; background vocals for the Netflix show The Get Down (seasons 1 and 2); and the stadium tour of Star Wars in Concert, featuring the original C3PO, Anthony Daniels. She can also be heard on Du Yun's Angel’s Bone album, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Ms. Dudley holds a BM from the University of Denver, and a MM from Mannes School of Music.