Meghan Linnington

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• >>> VOICE
• April 2024 - Voice - The Music Center Spotlight Awards Grand Prize Finalist - Los Angeles
• February 2024 - Voice - CS Music All-State Singer
• January 2024 - Voice - RCM National Celebration of Excellence Recital - 4 Gold Medals Awarded - Carnegie Hall - New York, New York
• November 2023 - Voice - RCM Level 9 Exam - 1st Class Honors with Distinction - Toronto
• October 2023 - Voice - Richard Miller Voice Competition for High School Students - 1st Place - Oberlin, Ohio
• June 2023 - Voice - Schmidt Vocal Arts Competition - 1 of 10 Finalists from Nationals in Sarasota
• May 2023 - Voice - CS Music Competition, Classical High School 1 - 1st Place - San Francisco
• March 2023 - Voice - Schmidt Vocal Arts Competition - 1st Place, California Region - San Francisco
• March 2023 - Voice - RCM Level 8 Exam - 1st Class Honors with Distinction - Toronto
• October 2022 - Voice - RCM Level 7 Exam - 1st Class Honors with Distinction - Toronto
• May 2018 - Voice - Hal Leonard Vocal Competition - 2nd Place Art Song Age 12 & under
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• >>>PIANO
• March 2024 - Piano - OMTA District Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• December 2023 - Piano - RCM Level 9 Exam - 1st Class Honors - Toronto
• May 2023 - Piano - OMTA* State Achievement - 1+ (top score) – Oklahoma
• April 2023 - Piano - OMTA District Achievement - 1+ (top score) – Oklahoma
• April 2023 - Piano - RCM* Level 8 Exam - 1st Class Honors - Toronto
• December 2022 - Piano - RCM Level 7 Exam - 1st Class Honors - Toronto
• May 2022 - Piano - OMTA State Achievement - 1+ (top score) – Oklahoma
• April 2022 - Piano - OMTA District Achievement 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• April 2021 - Piano - OMTA Senior Competition - 3rd Place - Oklahoma (OSU)
• March 2021 - Piano - OMTA District Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• February 2020 - Piano - OMTA Sonatina Competition - 1st Place - Oklahoma
• May 2019 - Piano - OMTA State Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• April 2019 - Piano – TAMTA* Spindler Lynch Piano Awards - 3rd Place - Oklahoma
• March 2019 - Piano - OMTA District Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• October 2018 - Piano - OMTA Junior Competition - Alternate - Oklahoma
• May 2018 - Piano - OMTA State Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• March 2018 - Piano - OMTA District Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• February 2019 - Piano - TAMTA Sonatina Competition - Oklahoma
• October 2017 - Piano - OMTA Junior Competition – Winner - Oklahoma
• May 2017 - Piano - OMTA State Achievement - 1+ (top score) – Oklahoma
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• >>>VIOLIN
• March 2023 - Violin - RCM Level 5 Exam - 1st Class Honors - Toronto
• February 2023 - Violin - NFMC* Jr. Festival - Superior (top score) - California
• February 2022 - Violin - NFMC Jr. Festival - Superior (top score) - California
• March 2021 - Violin - OMTA District Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• May 2019 - Violin - OMTA State Achievement - 1+ (top score) - Oklahoma
• March 2019 - Violin - OMTA District Achievement - 1+ (top score) – Oklahoma
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• >>>THEORY & COMPOSITION
• March 2023 - Theory - RCM Level 8 Exam - 1st Class Honors with Distinction - Toronto
• February 2022 - Theory - RCM Level 7 Exam - 1st Class Honors with Distinction - Toronto
• March 2021 - Theory - RCM Level 6 - 1st Class Honors with Distinction - Toronto
• October 2020 - Composition - OMTA Composition Festival - 1st Place (string trio “Flirting in Love”) – Oklahoma
• *OMTA - Oklahoma Music Teachers Assoc., *TAMTA - Tulsa Area Music Teachers Assoc., *RCM - Royal Conservatory of Music, *NFMC - National Federation of Music Clubs

Meghan Linnington, a brilliant 17 year-old Mezzo-Soprano and high school senior lives in Claremont, CA. Her passion for performance began in the Children's Chorus for Tulsa Opera's La Boheme in 2015. She has extensive chorus, ensemble and principal part experience. Her wide-ranging repertoire includes operatic arias, German lieder, French chanson, Latin oratorio, modern theatre and many other art songs and sacred anthems. In addition to voice Meghan is an avid student of piano, violin, theory and ballet (point) through programs/schools as noted: the Royal Conservatory of Music (piano, voice, violin, theory), the Claremont Community School of Music (violin, theory), The Colburn School's Community School (violin) and Village Dance Arts (ballet). Her current instructors are Maria Maxfield, D.M.A. of the Met Chorus, Young-Eun Chung of Oral Roberts University (piano), Richard Schwabe B.M., M.M. (vioin) of The Colburn School and Daniel Parks of Claremont Community School of Music (theory). On violin she serves as 2nd violinist with the Claremont Youth Symphony Orchestra as well as principal violinist with a local youth trio. As a vocal artist she has performed in several principal roles as well as in children’s chorus in multiple National Children’s Chorus Vail Opera Camp (VOC), Tulsa Opera (TO), Tulsa Youth Opera (TYO) , Pomona Repertory Opera Company (ROC), San Francisco Opera Summer Conservatory (SFO) and LA Opera Camp (LA) productions as follows:

2023 - VOC - Maddalena, Tinker of Tivoli

2023 - TO - Little Red Riding Hood, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim

2022 - ROC - Viva Diva Concert (various operatic arias including Mercedes in Carmen Quintet)

2022 - ROC - Chasing a Life Upon the Stage Concert (various art songs)

2021 - TYO - Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gina Carlo Menotti

2019 - TO - Children’s Chorus, Carmen, George’s Bizet

2019 - TYO - Hansel, Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck

2019 - TO - Little Prince (cover), Little Prince, Rachel Portman (lead for final dress rehearsal)

2018 - TYO - Tulsa Opera 70th Anniversary Celebration (w/ Sarah Coburn & Susan Graham)

2018 - LA - Singing Coyote, The Prospector (based on Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West)

2018 - TYO - Fox (and Chorus), Pinocchio, Pierangelo Valtinoni

2017 - SFO - Raven (and Chorus), Splinter of Ice, Caroline Altman

2017 - TYO - Chorus - The Snow Queen, Pierangelo Valtinoni

2016 - TO - Shepherd Boy (and Children’s Chorus), Tosca, Giacomo Puccini

2016 - TYO - Elf-Maiden, Hobbit, Dean Burry

2015 - TO - Children’s Chorus, La Boheme, Giacomo Puccini

Meghan has participated in several excellent master classes (MC) and summer programs (SP) as follows:

2023 - MC - Colorado State (CS) - Dr. Tiffany Blake, D.M.A. - Che faro senza euridice (Gluck)

2023 - MC - Colorado State (CS) - Dr. Nicole Asel, D.M.A. - I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)

2021 - SP - Washington National Opera (WNO), Opera Institute (Kennedy Center)

2021- MC - John Hopkins - Dr. Sarah Hoover, D.M.A. - Vezzosette e care pupillette (Falconieri)

2020 - SP - Metropolitan Opera Guild - Global Summer Camp

2019 - SP - The Julliard School - Summer Performing Arts - Geneva, Switzerland (Young Artist)

2019 - MC - Oral Roberts University - Dr. Michelle Eiler, D.M.A. - Gia il Sole dal Gange (Scarlotti)

2019 - MC - Univ. of South Carolina - Rachel Calloway, B.M., M.M. - Spirate pur Spirate (Donaudy)

2019 - MC - Univ. of South Carolina - Rachel Calloway, B.M., M.M. - Buffo di Gatti (Rossini)

2018 - SP - LA Opera - Opera Camp (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)

2017 - SP - San Francisco Opera - Summer Conservatory (Herbst Theatre)

As guest soloist, she has sung at several churches and cathedrals singing O Divine Redeemer (Gounod), O Holy Night (Adams), Laudate Dominum (Mozart) and many other sacred anthems. She has sung the Star Spangled Banner for 2 State Governors and multiple professional sporting events (ex. Tulsa Oilers Hockey, OKC Thunder NBA). She has sung in productions of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem (with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra) and Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Songs (with the Signature Choral). She has sung at many venues including Carnegie Hall, Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music (Little Bridges), Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Herbst Theatre, ONEOK Baseball Field, BOK Center, Chesapeake Energy Center, German American Society, Haugh Performing Arts Center, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, Timko-Barton Performance Hall, Promenade Mall (Tulsa), Philbrook Museum of Art, S. Arch Thompson Auditorium, Woodland Hills Mall (Tulsa), Hardesty Arts Center, College du Leman International School (Geneva), Padua Hills Theatre, Trinity United Methodist Church (Pomona), Pilgrim Congregational Church (Pomona), First Christian Church (Pomona), Trinity Episcopal Church (Tulsa) and First United Methodist Church (Tulsa). Most recently Meghan has been invited to sing with La Sierra University's Chamber Singers, and in March 2023 she participated in a Choir Festival with this talented group on the La Sierra University campus.