Welcome to the online performance home of soprano Sherezade Panthaki!
Soprano Sherezade Panthaki's international success has been fueled by superbly honed musicianship; “shimmering sensitivity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer); a “radiant” voice (The Washington Post); and passionately informed interpretations, “mining deep emotion from the subtle shaping of the lines” (The New York Times). An acknowledged star in the early-music field, Ms. Panthaki has developed ongoing collaborations with many of the world’s leading interpreters including Nicholas McGegan, Simon Carrington, John Scott, Mark Morris, and Masaaki Suzuki, with whom she made her 2013 New York Philharmonic debut in a program of Bach and Mendelssohn.
Highlights of her past and current season include Handel's Messiah with Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo; Handel's Saul with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto; Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Houston Symphony; Bach cantatas with Music of the Baroque in Chicago; the title role of Galatea in the US tour of Handel's Acis and Galatea with the Mark Morris Dance Group; Handel and Bach with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco; Handel’s Solomon with the Radio Kamer Filharmonie in Holland; Handel's Messiah with the Nashville Symphony; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with the Yale Schola Cantorum; Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with Simon Carrington; Britten's War Requiem with the Louisville Choral Arts Society; Handel at Carnegie Hall with William Christie and the Yale Philharmonia; solo concerts of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi with the Rebel Baroque Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Cantata BWV 51 with the Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon); Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and solo cantatas with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York city; and Bach’s St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and Brahms Requiem with John Scott and the Choir and Orchestra of St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Born and raised in India, Ms. Panthaki holds an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she won multiple awards, including the prestigious Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize, awarded to launch the career of a student who demonstrates exceptional promise and talent as an artist. She earned a Masters degree from the University of Illinois and a Bachelors degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College.
In New York city she is a frequent soloist with the most accomplished early music ensembles, including the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the choir and orchestra of Trinity Church Wall Street (with whom she performed on a Grammy nominated recording), and the Clarion Music Ensemble. She is quickly gaining recognition as a sought-after recording artist with several projects in production. For the past seven years, she has been a founding member of the acclaimed early music vocal quartet Gravitación, with whom she has toured and recorded extensively.
Ms. Panthaki is represented worldwide by Schwalbe and Partners Management Agency in New York City.
Click here to listen to Ms. Panthaki sing Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mondonville and more on Yale University Digication page.
Click here and scroll down the page to hear Ms. Panthaki sing Bach and Handel on Schwalbe and Partner's website.
To contact Ms. Panthaki, to send a performance comment, or to be added to the online mailing list of her performances, you are invited to use following e-mail address:
sherezade@sherezadepanthaki.com