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Biography

A singer blessed with intense communicative ability who blazes with passion. Opera Magazine

Soprano Camille Zamora balances a vibrant career of opera, recital and concert performances. She has appeared with ensembles including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Guadalajara Symphony, the Aberdeen Festival Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Festival Orchestra, the Apple Hill Chamber Players, and in live recital broadcasts on National Public Radio, BBC Radio, and Deutsche Radio. Her operatic roles include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, The Governess in The Turn of the Screw, and the title roles in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah and Handel’s Alcina. Recent highlights include Ermione in Oreste at the Spoleto Festival di Due Mondi, Despina in Così fan tutte at Glimmerglass Opera, Rosita in Luisa Fernanda at Los Angeles Opera, Amore/Valetto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at Houston Grand Opera, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Anchorage Opera, and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos at Utah Opera. The 2009/2010 season includes Ilia in Idomeneo at Boston Lyric Opera, Elle in La Voix Humaine at Auckland Opera (New Zealand), and recitals with Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections series and New York Festival of Song’s “NYFOS Next” series. Future engagements include two company debuts with the Bard Festival as Masha in The Chocolate Soldier and with Virginia Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte.

Other highlights include music of Schubert for the American Ballet Theater Opening Night Gala, in a performance The New York Post called “one of the best received moments of the evening… quiet, monumentally serene Schubert art songs, beautifully rendered by soprano Camille Zamora.” She has sung Brahms’ Liebeslieder with Leon Fleisher at the Aspen Music Festival, Beethoven’s Mass in C at Alice Tully Hall, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the Boston Festival Orchestra and the Chorus of Westerly, the Bach Magnificat with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, and, also at Carnegie Hall, the premiere of Prix de Rome winner Christopher Theofanidis’ Song of Elos, a performance she repeated at the American Academy in Rome. She performed Pulitzer Prize winner Aaron Jay Kernis’ Simple Songs for Soprano and Orchestra at the Bowdoin Festival under the baton of the composer, made her Lincoln Center Festival debut with Poems from the Sung Dynasty for Soprano and Orchestra by Bright Sheng in a performance praised by The New York Times as “dramatic and nuanced,” and joined pianist Steven Blier for “Spring Will Come Again” at Lincoln Center’s Stanley Kaplan Penthouse.

A champion of zarzuela, she has sung the title role in Pablo Sorozábal’s La Tabernera del Puerto with New York City’s Alta Classica Zarzuela, and was featured in “An Evening of Tango and Zarzuela” with the Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra. Ms. Zamora has performed and recorded principal roles in La Verbena de la Paloma, La Revoltosa, and Luisa Fernanda with the Jarvis Zarzuela Orchestra under the baton of Pablo Zinger. Other recordings include “The Music of Christopher Theofanidis” with the Rochester Composers’ Ensemble, “Circles of Stone” with the Celtic duo Ceili’s Muse, and “H.M.S. Gilbert and Sullivan” with Sir Mark Elder and the Rochester Philharmonic. Her next recording, “Tienes Mi Corazón: Music of Graciano Tarragó”, with guitarist Cem Duruöz, will be released in 2010.

Ms. Zamora is the Founding Director of the Sing for Hope charitable organization, which mobilizes performing artists in volunteer service to benefit communities in need. In recognition of her contribution to the field of arts activism, Ms. Zamora has been honored to perform at the United Nations and the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.