Mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich has been praised by The San Francisco Chronicle for her "exuberant vitality," "fearless technical precision," "deep-rooted pathos" and "irrepressible musical splendor." As a dedicated recitalist, she has performed over 200 art songs in 12 languages and given solo recitals at the American Composer's Forum, the Wagner Society, Lieder Alive and The La Jolla Athenaeum. Ms. Scharich toured in Brazil, where she performed with Ricardo Ballestero and Cristiano Alves at the acclaimed Sala Cecília Meireles. She and Mr. Ballestero continued their collaboration in presenting all of the non-Portuguese songs of the great Brazilian composer Alberto Nepomuceno, which until now have remained in relative obscurity. A great proponent of Lieder specifically, she recently released a critically acclaimed recording, in collaboration with the Alexander String Quartet, of new quartet and voice arrangements of the great orchestral Lieder (Rückert, Kindertotenlieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Wesendonck-Lieder, and Vier letzte Lieder). Symphonic works performed include Les nuits d’été, Rückert Lieder, Pulcinella, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, and the great choral works of J.S. Bach and Handel. In the world of opera, Ms. Scharich has sung over 30 roles in the lyric mezzo repertoire, most recently and to much acclaim as Minerva in West Edge Opera's production of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. She has appeared with Opera Parallèle as Agathe in Les enfants terribles, Kaminsky’s Today It Rains and as the Fox in The Little Prince, and with the Yakima Symphony in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. Enthusiastic about working with living composers, she has premiered works by Kurt Erickson, Elinor Armer, Anno Schreier, and will be heard in Janis Mattox's upcoming chamber opera Sueños de Medianoche (Midnight Dreams), set in Spanish and based on Bolivian legend. She is a featured performer in David Conte’s Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte, released in 2018.