Zoie Reams

mezzo-soprano

American mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams has been lauded by Opera News for her “velvety mezzo” and for how she “phrase[s] with elegance and articulate[s] coloratura nimbly.”

In the 2023-2024 season, Zoie Reams returns to Minnesota Opera in a double bill as Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti and Autumn in Service Provider by Christopher Weiss. Ms. Reams returned to Spoleto Festival as Erika in Vanessa by Samuel Barber. Ms. Reams will sing the Mezzo Solo in Messiah with the Kansas City Symphony conducted by Roberto Kalb and at the Washington National Cathedral. Zoie returns to the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago to present a self-curated recital, “Singing of Myself.”

On the concert stage, she has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the National Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall, Bernstein’s First Symphony, Jeremiah, with the Staatstheater Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra, and Handel’s Messiah with both the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the combined choirs of Auburn University and the New Choral Society of Scarsdale, New York.

​Ms. Reams’ awards include second place at Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition (2016), first place winner of the Emerging Artist division of the Classical Singer Competition (2015), and second place winner of the Gulf Coast Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2016). She holds a Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University, where she sang Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Katisha in The Mikado, and Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict. She earned her Bachelor of Music at Lawrence University