Emily Donato, soprano from Brooklyn NY, was awarded first prize in the 2023 Handel Aria Competition, and was a member of the 2023 Virginia Best Adams Quartet at the Carmel Bach Festival. She made her Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium solo debut in May 2023 in Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Oratorio Society of New York conducted by Kent Tritle, has appeared as a soloist with Musica Sacra at St John the Divine, and Voices of Ascension led by Dennis Keene. In 2021, Ms. Donato was awarded first prize in the Lyndon-Woodside Oratorio Competition, and appeared as the soprano soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass on Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415’s 2019 Scandinavian Tour. In 2019, she performed J.S. Bach Cantata 82A “Ich Habe Genug” with Masaaki Suzuki at the Japanese Ambassador’s Residence in NYC. Emily has worked with conductors David Hill, Nicholas McGegan, Simon Carrington and Leon Botstein. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Bard College and Master of Music from the Yale School of Music.