Leah Hawkins Master Class

Join renowned soprano Leah Hawkins for a special master class at our Silver Spring campus.

A native of Philadelphia, Leah Hawkins is the 2024 recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award from the Metropolitan Opera.

Leah is an alumna of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera, where she performed Mrs. Johannes “Ma” Zegner in the world premiere of Mazzoli’s Proving Up; Celestial Voice in Don Carlo; the premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s The Dictator’s Wife; Cousin Blanche/Sadie Griffith in Champion, an “opera in jazz” by Terence Blanchard; Mrs. Dorsey/Amelia Boynton in the premiere of the revised version of Philip Glass’ Appomattox; and in Justice at the Opera with late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, performing scenes from Aida and Un ballo in maschera with the Washington National Opera Orchestra.

On the concert stage, she has appeared with The Philadelphia Orchestra in A Space Odyssey; at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in a concert of vocal works by Beethoven; as a guest soloist with the US Air Force Orchestra; Carmen in Carmen Jones with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah with the Black Pearl Orchestra; Mahler Symphony No. 2 with Yale Philharmonia; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and Suor Angelica with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra; and El amor brujo with the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra.

An active recitalist, Leah has presented programs at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the Park Avenue Armory, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington for their Caterina Jarboro Memorial Recital.