This season, soprano Darynn Zimmer made her debut with the the Treasure Coast Opera Society in Fort Pierce, Florida, singing her first Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus. At the Miami Lyric Opera, she made her debut in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor. Other recent operatic engagements were as Mimi in La Boheme with the San Francisco Lyric Opera and with Opera Tampa in the same role, conducted by Anton Coppola. This performance was filmed and later televised on WEDU TV in January, 2008.

During the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Zimmer performed her South American orchestral debut in Rio de Janeiro in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Petrobras Sinfonica Pro Musica. She appeared in recital engagements with Regina Resnik Presents, ‘The Classic Kurt Weill’ in San Francisco, and ‘Covert or Convert’ in New York City, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. This program was later filmed for CUNY TV and has been given its premier at the Museum of Radio and Television in New York, and broadcast multiple times this season as a Special Presentation of CUNY TV.

She has sung leading contemporary operatic roles with the U.S. and Italian Spoleto Festivals and the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia, in world premiers by Philip Glass, Anthony Davis and Michael John La Chiusa. Norina in ‘Don Pasquale’ with the Greensboro Opera, Gilda in ‘Rigoletto,’ Marguerite in ‘Faust,’ and Lauretta in ’Gianni Schicchi,’ with Anton Coppola conducting the Metro Lyric Opera in New Jersey, Melisande in ‘Pelleas et Melisande’ at Milwaukee’s Skylight Opera Theater, and Poppea in ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’ with the Pennsylvania Opera Theater, are among the standard repertory roles she has sung.

Ms. Zimmer’s 2003 Carnegie Hall debut was as soloist Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C with David Randolph and the St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra. She performed there again in a return engagement for Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Other notable engagements have included appearances with Marin Alsop and the Concordia Orchestra in New York, Paul Nadler and the Southwest Florida Symphony, and with Mark Mangini and the Choral Society and Orchestra of the Hamptons.

Ms. Zimmer is a prize-winning recitalist (The Joy in Singing Award) and recording artist whose first solo compact disc, Oiseau Bleu, is distinguished in the discography. Her latest recorded release is as ‘Mona’ in Daron Hagen’s opera, Bandanna, on Albany Records. ‘Savage Nightingale,’ in collaboration with virtuoso guitarist Eliot Fisk, composer/pianist Jed Distler, and percussionist Rex Benincasa, is her first self-produced recording and will soon be released. Upcoming appearances include her participation in the 50th Anniversary Gala of the Joy in Singing organization, on October 17, 2009, at Merkin Concert Hall in New York.

Darynn Zimmer earned a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music.