IMG Artists is delighted to welcome The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award winner, soprano Leah Hawkins to our roster for general management. She is represented by Executive Vice President and Global Head of Vocal Matthew Horner and Artist Manager Callan Coughlan.
A graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Leah is the recipient of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Women in Classical Music Career Advancement Award, the Marian Anderson Award and a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant.
This season’s highlights include her highly anticipated title role debut in Aida at Arizona Opera and a return to The Metropolitan Opera for Il trovatore. On the concert stage, she returns to The Philadelphia Orchestra for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, debuts with The Apollo Orchestra as a guest soloist in a concert of Verdi’s Arias, and returns to the Park Avenue Armory for a self-curated recital entitled C’est ainsi que tu es (That is how you are), which Leah states is “a glimpse into my ongoing journey of finding, accepting, and living as my truest self.” Future engagements include debuts with La Monnaie and The Dallas Opera.
Leah said, “I am thrilled to begin the next phase of my career with IMG Artists! It is a special joy to share a roster with colleagues and artists that I respect and admire. I look forward to expanding my reach and believe that the wonderful team at IMGA can help me fulfil all of my biggest dreams.”
Matthew and Callan said, “We are delighted to welcome Leah to the roster at IMG Artists. Already established as one of the most exciting sopranos of a generation, we are honoured to help facilitate the next chapter in her illustrious career. Leah has an innate gift to move and inspire through her distinctive artistic voice, and we look forward to witnessing future audiences worldwide relish in her talent.”
Last season, Leah returned to The Metropolitan Opera as the Soprano Soloist in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in the same piece conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at The Hollywood Bowl. The New York Classical Review wrote, “Her sumptuous voice blazed through chorus and orchestra in the opening Requiem aeternum. Perhaps more stunning, however, was the delicacy and sensitivity with which she sang with the women of the chorus in the Graduale. In the concluding Agnus Dei, Hawkins’s pleas that the departed be granted eternal life were as beautiful as they were moving.”
Other recent engagements include a role debut in Anthony Davis’ X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Louise/Betty) with The Metropolitan Opera and Seattle Opera. Earlier this year, she made her role and house debut at Dutch National Opera in a new production of Il tabarro (Giorgetta) directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Lorenzo Viotti. On the concert stage she performed Dvořák’s Requiem with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
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