Award winning soprano Maria Bozich brings dynamic and engaging performances to audiences in her hometown of Seattle and across the United States. This season, Ms. Bozich makes her role debut as Elettra in Idomeneo in February 2020 at the New England Conservatory, where she is currently pursuing a Graduate Diploma in opera studies. In summer 2019, Ms. Bozich joined Pittsburgh Festival Opera as a Studio Artist, where she sang the role of Gerhilde in the Jonathan Dove arrangement of Wagner’s Die Walküre and the role of Iginia in the world premiere of Scandals, a one-act show about Puccini’s life. She also was a participant in the festival’s 2019 Mastersingers Project for Young Dramatic Voices, where she performed opera scenes as Senta (Der Fliegende Holländer) and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde). Earlier in the 2018-19 season, Ms. Bozich made her role debut as the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at the New England Conservatory. Ms. Bozich spent three summers as an Apprentice Artist at the Miami Music Festival, where she sang the roles of Marie Antoinette (The Ghosts of Versailles), Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), and Second Lady (The Magic Flute). Her appearance as Antonia touched audience members, and she “knew how to win the applause with her moving role” (El Nuevo Herald). While at the festival, she worked with renowned conductors and teachers such as Manny Perez, Stephanie Rhodes, Caren Levine, and Peter Grunberg. Awards and honors include an Encouragement Award in the Washington District of the 2018-19 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Second Prize in Great Composers Competition for Best Rossini Performance, and First Prize in the 2014 Tahoma National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition. Ms. Bozich was selected as a semi-finalist in the Emerging Artist division of the 2018 Classical Singer Competition. Additional roles performed include Donna Anna in the first act of Don Giovanni and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas. Partial roles and scenes performances include Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Adalgisa (Norma), Marguerite (Faust), Marenka (The Bartered Bride), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte). Ms. Bozich holds a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studies with internationally renowned soprano and pedagogue Jane Eaglen.