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Los Angeles-based soprano Claire Pegram routinely sings with the Los Angeles Opera Chorus (Turandot ’24, Otello ’23, Lucia di Lammermoor ’22, Aida ’22) and the Los Angeles Master Chorale (Rachmaninoff’s The Bells ’23, Mahler Symphony no.3 ’23, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor ’22) and has enjoyed many performances in tandem with the Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Hollywood Bowl, under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Gustavo Dudamel. As a soloist, Ms. Pegram won first place at the Gwendolyn Roberts Young Artist Auditions and was named the “Young Artist of the Year” for the National Association of Teachers of Singing - Los Angeles Chapter (NATS-LA) in April of 2022. In September 2021, Pegram was selected to perform with The Opera Buffs Inc. in Pasadena, CA for the “New Voices - Concert of Discovery” program. Ms. Pegram’s recent opera engagements include singing the title role in the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute’s production of Rodelinda (2019), Sophie in Werther (2019), the Governess in The Turn of the Screw (2018), Mélisande in Impressiones de Pelléas (2018), Susannah in Susannah (Opera in the Ozarks, 2017), Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Opera MODO, 2017), and Nannetta in Falstaff (Opera MODO, 2017). Ms. Pegram received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute in North Carolina in 2019. She received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan in 2016. Ms. Pegram currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches privately.