Meagan Miller is the 2008 winner of George London/Kirsten Flagstad Award sponsored by the New York Community Trust.

Praised by The New York Times for her "gorgeous and lively tone," "considerable communicative powers," "commanding presence" and "deep sensibility," soprano Meagan Miller has established herself as a riveting leading lady in diverse repertoire. Opera News has hailed Ms. Miller’s "soaring," "rich, firm voice," and her "impressive vocal strength and tonal shine." Her first performances of Verdi’s Desdemona were lauded as "absolutely stunning, bordering even on the incredible."

In the 2007-2008 Season, Ms. Miller will cover both Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Alice Ford in Falstaff at New York City Opera. She will also make her NYCO debut in October as Giorgetta in an excerpt from Il Tabarro in the Fall Gala Concert, and will be a featured soloist in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Alumni Gala Concert at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.

An accomplished recitalist and noted interpreter of new music, Meagan Miller has appeared in more than thirty professional recitals at such notable venues as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Juilliard Theater, Steinway Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Brown University, Princeton University, the Morgan Library, Salzburg’s Schloss Leopoldskron, and the Chrysler Museum. She has premiered many works written specifically for her voice, including Libby Larsen’s Try Me Good King: The Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII and Robert Beaser’s Four Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ms. Miller has also premiered numerous works by Thomas Cipullo, Christopher Berg, and Russell Platt.

On the operatic stage, Ms. Miller has performed Mozart’s Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Konstanze, and Countess Almaviva, as well as Verdi’s Violetta and Desdemona, Puccini’s Musetta, Gounod’s Marguerite, Johann Strauss’ Rosalinda, Gluck’s Euridice, Floyd’s Susannah, and Copland’s Laurie. Her interpretations of these roles have been applauded at the Minnesota Opera, L’Opéra de Montréal, Orlando Opera, Kentucky Opera, Syracuse Opera, Eugene Opera, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Wolf Trap Opera, the Princeton Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra. Ms. Miller’s other roles include Strauss’ Arabella, Lehar’s Merry Widow (Hannah), and Bizet’s Micaëla.

Recent orchestral engagements have taken Ms. Miller to such venues as Hong Kong’s Cultural Center, Rotterdam’s De Dolen, the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall, and the Kennedy Center as a soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C, Missa Solemnis, and Symphony No. 9, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Exsultate, jubilate, Bruckner’s Mass in f-minor, Poulenc’s Gloria, Dvorak’s Requiem, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Ms. Miller has performed under the batons of Edoardo Mueller, Harry Bicket, Eiji Oue, Lawrence Foster, Randall Behr, Christopher Larkin, Stephen Lord, Joseph Rescigno, and Roger Norrington.

Ms. Miller has completed several residencies with the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the Wolf Trap Foundation, blending outreach and performance. A grand finals winner of the 1999 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Meagan Miller was named “the Outstanding Undergraduate Musician” by the Juilliard faculty, and was honored with the Juilliard Opera Center’s DeRosa Award. She has also won the Liederkranz Foundation Competition, a Richard Tucker Music Foundation Study Grant, Syracuse Opera’s Season’s Best Performance, and the Joy In Singing Award.