She participated in SongStudio at Carnegie Hall led by Renée Fleming. 4, prepared by Robert Spano, and sang as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte under the baton of Patrick Summers. Keong was an inaugural Renée Fleming Artist at the Aspen Music Festival, where she made her festival debut as the soprano soloist of Mahler’s Symphony No. She was a top prize winner of The Gerda Lissner Foundation Lieder & Song Competition. She is a 2020 recipient of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, the only musician of her year to be awarded the prize and the first singer in a decade. This summer, she joins the Marlboro Music Festival as a resident artist, alongside Mitsuko Uchida, Jennifer Johnson Cano, and Lydia Brown. This season sees her debut with Annapolis Opera as Clorinda in La Cenerentola, recital debuts at Carnegie Hall and National Sawdust, and workshops of new operatic premieres at Houston Grand Opera and Santa Fe Opera. Keong is quickly establishing herself as an artist at home in opera, art song, concert, and contemporary repertoire. Hailed as a “soaring soprano” of “clarity and promise” ( Opera News) and as “one of the most exciting songstresses in the world” ( Cut Common Magazine), Ms.
Chinese-Australian soprano Yvette Keong is a unique performer who is passionate about the ability of classical music to enliven modern society by centralizing voices that need to be heard.
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