Mikaela Bennett is a celebrated singer and actress who is garnering praise for her artistic versatility on stage and in concert halls across the globe and is a recent recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. Equally at home collaborating with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall to West Side Story at the BBC Proms, Mikaela is a skilled cross-genre interpreter. Additional career highlights include her New York City solo recital debut at Alice Tully Hall, premiering an original composition by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, her Lyric Opera of Kansas City debut for The Sound of Music (Maria), Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath (Rosasharn) with MasterVoices at Carnegie Hall, and Handel’s Israel in Egypt with MasterVoices and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall.
She begins the 24/25 season with a debut at Festival Musica Strasbourg for Ted Hearne’s contemporary oratorio, The Source. Other season highlights include her debuts at the Prototype Festival in new opera, In a Grove (Leona Raines/Leona’s Mother) by Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann, The Baltimore Symphony as the soprano soloist in Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite alongside the Aaron Diehl Trio, the Orlando Philharmonic as the soprano soloist for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, and Edmonton Symphony as a guest soloist in their Holiday Concerts. Mikaela will also return to the 92nd Street Y as a guest soloist for their concert Hammerstein and His Sources.