Ilana Davidson

Ilana Davidson is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international singing career in operas and concerts. She has sung on several recordings, including as a soloist on a recording of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience with Leonard Slatkin and the University of Michigan chorus and orchestra which won four Grammy Awards including Best Classical Album in 2006. She is the co-artistic director of the Chamber music series ClassicalCafe. Early life and education

Raised in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region, he graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance. She then pursued graduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music where she earned a M.M. in Opera Performance and Voice. She appeared in several opera productions at Curtis, portraying such roles as the young girl in Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Despina in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte, Lady with a Hand Mirror in Dominick Argento's Postcard from Morocco, and Atalanta in George Frideric Handel's Serse.

Davidson was a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center where she was a pupil of Phyllis Curtin. She was the recipient of a William Matheus Sullivan Music Foundation Grant. She is also a participant in the Aston Magna Early Music Academy.

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