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Soprano, Julia Ebner, has been recognized for her affecting performances and “brandishing firm, lustrous lyric soprano,with dulcet pianissimo”.

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Ms. Ebner’s stage credits include the title roles in Suor Angelica, Romeo et Juliette, L’incoronazione di  Poppea, The Merry Widow, Hansel and Gretel and Princess Ida. She has also appeared as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Marguerite in Faust, Violetta in La Traviata, Older Alyce in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Lucy Brown in Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera and Mrs. Hayes in Susannah, Olga in La Grand-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Giulietta in I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Atalanta in Serse, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Gianetta in The Gondoliers,  Madeline/Isabelle in The Face on the Barroom Floor, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Micaela and Frasquita in Carmen and The First Lady and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Amitta in Der Geduldige Socrate, Mozart and Donna Anna in The Classical Style, First Wood Sprite in Rusalka, Miss Silverpeal in The Impresario, and Monica in The Medium.   She has taken the stage for companies including The Santa Fe Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, The Florida Grand Opera, Opera  North, Virginia Opera, Winter Opera St. Louis, Opera San Antonio, Ash Lawn Opera, St. Petersburg Opera,  Bel Cantanti Opera, Green Mountain Opera Festival, Opera in the Heights, Amherst Early Music Festival, Syracuse Opera, The Charleston Chamber Opera, Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Society for New Music, Tri-Cities Opera and Oswego Opera Theater

Ms. Ebner’s symphonic credits include solos in Handel’s Messiah, Mahler’s Rückert Lieder and Bach’s Magnificat with Symphoria.  She has also sung as the soloist for Brahms’ Requiem, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony and Dona Nobis Pacem, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Symphoria at Hamilton College, Haydn's Last Seven Words of Christ in DeWitt, New York, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, in Binghamton, New York, Dan Forrester’s Requiem for the Living with the Binghamton Downtown Singers. She has also sung the soprano solos in Mozart's Haydn's Missa Brevis in F, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F and Vesperae  Solennes de Confessore, and Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass. Recognized for her talent in both early and new music, she has frequently performed as the soprano soloist for the Binghamton Baroque Ensemble and The Society for New Music for which she originated the roles of Maud Gage in Persis Parshall Vehar’s opera Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage and Amara Bliss in Robert Patterson’s Cocoa Cantata. Ms. Ebner completed her Masters in Music in Opera at Binghamton University and Bachelors in Music in Vocal Performance at Syracuse University where she was also the recipient of the Moore Opera Award, the Jessie Gaul Vocal Music Scholarship and the Ernst Bacon Vocalist Award.  Other honors have included the Stuart & Jeanne Wilson Scholarship from Tri-Cities Opera and a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshanna Foundation. Ms. Ebner was a winner of the Helen Boatwright Award, and was a finalist for Opera Ithaca’s Edward M. Murray Voice Competition, a finalist for the Franco-American Vocal Awards and finalist for the Sara Tucker awards. She also received the Female Young Artist Award from Opera North as well as an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council and the Campbell Wachter Memorial Award from Santa Fe Opera.