Mezzo-soprano Leah Wool is the recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Award, a Second Place Winner in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition, and subsequently made her Alice Tully Hall debut in the Foundation’s gala concert. She also received the Judith Raskin Memorial Award from Santa Fe Opera, and the Presser Award, a prestigious study grant from The Presser Foundation and the Yale School of Music.

This season, Ms. Wool joins the American Symphony Orchestra for a concert of works by C.P.E. Bach. Previously, Ms. Wool made a return to the Defiant Requiem Foundation in recital, singing a world premiere of Jewish-American composer Gerald Cohen’s new song cycle. Last season featured an appearance with OnSite Opera and the Defiant Requiem Foundation as the Trommler in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis at Zankel Hall, the proceeds of which benefited Holocaust Survivors.

Most recently, Ms. Wool joined the San Francisco Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and Jacksonville Symphony for Handel’s Messiah. Previously, she returned to Cincinnati Symphony for Bach’s Magnificat, San Francisco Symphony for Handel’s Messiah and Utah Opera as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, made her debut with the Charlotte Symphony for Elijah, returned to Boston Baroque as Holofernes in Juditha Triumphans, debuted with the Nashville Symphony in Mozart’s Requiem, the Phoenix Symphony for Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and the Defiant Requiem Foundation in Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer. GRAMMY-nominated for her work as Minerva on Boston Baroque’s recording of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Ms. Wool is one of their frequent collaborators.