American soprano Risa Renae Harman has been acclaimed for her technical virtuosity and communication skills as an artist. As a winner of the American Jenny Lind Competition, she made a concert tour of Sweden and appeared with Elisabeth Söderström in a gala benefit concert honoring Jenny Lind’s birthday. She is also a recent career grant recipient from the Lee Schaenen Foundation and a winner of the Lotte Lehmann Cybersing Competition, French Melodie. Miss Harman’s 2004-2005 engagements include concerts as Adele in Die Fledermaus with the Owensboro Symphony, a return recital in Naples, Florida and a return engagement as Artist-in-Residence with the Bay View Music Festival. During the 2003-04 season Miss Harman continued her collaboration with the New York City Opera Education Outreach singing Norina in Don Pasquale and sang recitals in Naples, Florida and at Georgia College and State University as well as creating the role of Electric Shock in the world premiere of the new children’s opera Blackout by Roberto Scarcella. Miss Harman’s 2002-03 schedule included her debut with the Cathedral Choral Society in an all-Baroque program at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. for which The Washington Post described her voice as “luminous” and “outstanding,” an Opera Gala evening with Hat City Music in Connecticut and took turns as Gretel for New York City Opera’s Education Outreach Program. The Cincinnati Enquirer observed that she “was a playful Zerbinetta with a big coloratura” in her debut in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos with the Sorg Opera in Ohio.