Dawn Wolski

Soprano

A recent winner of the 2008 Zara Dolukhanova International Art Song Competition (Russia), soprano Dawn Marie Wolski's clear, brilliant tone has been delighting audiences throughout the opera, operetta, and concert worlds alike.  While earning her Master's degree at Manhattan School of Music, her portrayal of Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia under the baton of Maestro Julius Rudel was described as "exquisite" in a review in Opera News.  Of Ms. Wolski's recent performance of the Brahms Requiem with Stamford Symphony, Stamford Advocate said "she delivered lines...with an elegance that produced chills;" and of Carmina Burana with New York City's Collegiate Chorale, Classics Today wrote she was "ravishing, all the way up to a crystal clear high D." 

In her native Washington, D.C., Ms. Wolski appeared at the Shakespeare Folger Theater in productions of The Mikado and the award-winning world premier of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience.  Other repertoire includes Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte, and the title role in Patience.  Additionally, she has appeared as soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as well as soloist in Handel's Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, and Haydn's Little Organ Mass, among others.

From mere days before 9/11 up through 2006, Ms. Wolski served an active duty member of The United States Military.  For several months each year, she toured with The United States Army Field Band of Washington, D.C., soloing for tens of thousands throughout over 40 states in venues as prestigious as Boston Symphony Hall to local arenas where under-served audiences could experience classical music for the first time.  In addition to patriotic selections, Ms. Wolski had the opportunity to present portions of nearly a dozen operas, as well as to collaborate with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, and London Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Wolski has recently returned to civilian life and resides with her husband, violinist Mateusz Wolski, in Spokane, Washington.  Recent local engagements have included portions of Candide and other Bernstein favorites with the Spokane Symphony, sacred selections of Schubert and Mozart with the Oregon Mozart Players, and appearances with Allegro: Baroque and Beyond as well as the Spokane String Quartet.  Following Spokane Opera’s summer production of Mozart’s Impressario, Ms. Wolski will also be featured with the Coeur D'Alene Symphony; at The Metropolitan Opera National Council Fundraising Gala for the Eastern Washington/Idaho/Montana District; as guest soloist in "Mozart in Prague" with Connoisseur Concerts; and in several solo appearances with the 2008 International Music Festival in Trzęsacz, Poland.