"With a voice of lambent beauty," soprano Teresa Wakim enjoys a successful career as soloist in opera, oratorio, and chamber music. She has sung in many of the world's most renowned halls, including Severance Hall in Cleveland, Royal Albert Hall in London, Carnegie's Zankel Hall, and Boston's Symphony Hall, Sander's Theater, and Jordan Hall. She completed her undergraduate vocal studies with distinction at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying with Lorraine Manz, and pursued a master's degree at Boston University's College of Fine Arts in the studio of Penelope Bitzas, focusing on the performance of baroque vocal music with Martin Pearlman, Peter Sykes, and Joshua Rifkin. She has performed with the acclaimed ensembles of Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, the Boston Early Music Festival, Seraphic Fire, Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, Boston Secession, and Apollo's Fire. Her musical interests extend to smaller ensembles as well, including Exsultemus, Bourbon Baroque, La Donna Musicale, Amphion's Lyre, L'Académie, Les Bostonades, and Newton Baroque. Ms. Wakim is featured on two Grammy-nominated recordings of Lully operas with the Boston Early Music Festival for CPO, and recently sang a title role in their fall 2009 production in Handel's Acis & Galatea. Engagements for the 2009-2010 season include premiere performances of new works with the Boston Choral Ensemble and Coro Allegro, recording her role as Diane in Charpentier's Actéon with The Boston Early Music Festival in Germany, Bach's glorious cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with the St. Alban's Bach Festival Orchestra in North Carolina, Handel's Messiah across southern Florida with Seraphic Fire, a solo appearance with the Handel & Haydn Society in their Zest for Love concert in February, and the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina in Louisville with Bourbon Baroque.