Naomi Merer

Teacher: Voice

Naomi graduated with her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance from UCSB, where she had a full tuition scholarship with a graduate teaching assistantship stipend. At UCSB, she was a teaching assistant for Music Appreciation (2019-2021), taught individual voice lessons (2016-2019), and voice class (2015-2016); Naomi’s work as a teaching assistant in the voice department also included giving master classes and coaching diction with students outside of her studio, including with the UCSB Lumina. She studied with Dr. Linda Di Fiore. Naomi received her Master of Music from UCSB in 2019 and her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance and opera with a minor in music theory from Northwestern University in 2015, magna cum laude and with vocal honors.

Naomi’s accolades include winning second place in the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation competition (2021, 2018) and singing on a master class with Renée Fleming in the Lobero Theatre (2016). A versatile artist, Naomi also starred in Northwestern University’s musical theatre productions, portraying Lucy and the Street Singer in The Threepenny Opera and Linda in The Wedding Singer. She is also an avid recitalist and lover of art song and has curated such performances as Songs of the Silenced, a recital featuring German, Czech, and American women composers (All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Church), Farewell to the World: a recital on Mary, Queen of Scots (Lompoc Music Association) and her culminating doctoral lecture recital, Get thee to an asylum: a recital on Ophélies’s mad scene. Additionally, she has collaborated with local Santa Barbara pianists for projects such as The Dichterliebe Project (@liedernerd on Instagram) and performed three songs by Ilse Weber, “Lorelei” by Clara Schumann, and “Auf Flügeln des Gesanges” by Felix Mendelssohn on the podcast Follow the Lieder. She has sung with several ensembles in the Santa Barbara area, including as the soprano soloist in Rossini’s La carità and Léo Délibes’s Messe brève with the UCSB Lumina Chorus as well as Esta noche and A Christmas Garland with the Santa Barbara Choral Society and Orchestra.

Naomi Merer

Teacher: Voice

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