Mikki M. Sodergren

Symphonic Vocalist |

Classical Mezzo-Soprano |

Visionary Arts Leader |

About

There’s nothing quite like sinking into a vast symphonic cushion of sound, especially when an angel-voiced vocalist like Mikki Sodergren steps front and center to soar like a swift over the musical waves. Sodergren so enchanted the public and the players when she performed at TSO’s “Night at the Oscars” concert in the fall {of 2018} that she’s been invited back to perform at “Holiday Magic.”
- Kati Schardi, Tallahassee Democrat

NEWS:

The Clarion Choir will release their forthcoming recording of Rachmaninoff’s masterwork, the All-Night Vigil, on January 27, 2023 on the Pentatone Label.

Previews of tracks may be heard online here.

This album will be available for streaming and for purchase as of January 27, 2023.

Singing “beautifully and intelligently” (Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion), Mikki Sodergren’s stylistic flexibility has afforded her an enriching and musically diverse career. Ms. Sodergren has developed new musicals for NYU Tisch, the BMI Lehmen-Engel Songwriting program, Disney Theatricals and the National Theatre of Great Britain, regularly performs at the Metropolitan Opera, and has toured internationally with several ensembles, including the award-winning English Concert, the Grammy®-nominated Clarion Choir, and early music ensemble Meridionalis.

Ms. Sodergren often performs with symphonic orchestras on both classical engagements and pops programs. Ensembles include the Asheville, Jacksonville, Charleston, and Johnstown Symphonies, the Savannah Philharmonic, the Washington Bach Consort, and others. Performing as the Mezzo-soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse and many pops programs, Mikki thrives on stylistic integrity and varied musical programming. Recording extensively, Ms. Sodergren’s work has received four Grammy® nominations, including a 2021 Grammy® award for performing on the recording of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Prison. Sodergren will be featured as the Alto Soloist on the forthcoming recording by the Clarion Choir of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil.

Recent performances include performing with the award-winning Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra under the direction of Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin for performances of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, and Verdi’s Requiem, aired live on PBS and the World Trade Center Memorial, in memory of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, and in celebration of the historic return of the Met after 18 months of closure. She has also been seen in the highly-lauded world premiere of Kamala Sankaram’s Looking At You, and can be heard on the original cast album, a Billboard chart topper for Classical charts in 2021. Sodergren made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2019 as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, and has performed Aldonza/Dulcinea (Man of La Mancha), opposite TONY and EMMY-nominated actor Ron Raines, as well as Eponine (Les Miserables) opposite Broadway legend, Craig Schulman.

Ms. Sodergren currently serves as Executive and Artistic Director of the only international, professional voice organization to dedicate themselves to the preservation, celebration and performance of all classic styles of American song: the American Traditions Vocal Collection. Both Ms. Sodergren and the ATC believe that when all styles of American song are celebrated equally, all vocalists have the opportunity to shine.

Mikki resides in New York with her beloved cat, Djibouti, and is a full-time member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus.

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Skyfall by Adele Adkins

Mikki Singing Carmen's Habanera at Picnic in the Park; Brian Byers - Drone Footage; Savannah Philharmonic, Peter Shannon, Conductor

I Feel the Earth Move by Carole King

The Prayer (Hebrew version - Temple Emanu-El)

Then Came The Light ft. Mikki Sodergren (Alanya Bridge)

"Badass Coder Chick" INSIDE MY HEAD-NY Theatre Barn New Works Series @ the cell NYC 9.4.18

Mikki Sodergren - She Used To Be Mine (Waitress) - Sara Bareilles

Mikki Sodergren & Tommy McDowell - "With Me" (Kelsey Christine McConnell & Martha-Emily Harvel)

Michael Maliakel, Mikki Sodergren - If I Loved You (Carousel) - Richard Rodgers

No One Else (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812)

What Baking Can Do (Waitress)

JUST GOODBYE

What Do You Call a Man? (The Bridges of Madison County)

Skylark ft. Jason Weisinger

Over The Rainbow - 2014 American Traditions Competition Finals

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22 | 23 Season

All Season

Metropolitan Opera 22-23 season

Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center

New York. NY

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The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-23 Season runs from September 27, 2022 - June 10, 2023

December 31, 2022 |8:00pm

New Year’s Eve with 007

Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Asheville, NC

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It’s Bond, James Bond, and your Asheville Symphony! Ring in the New Year with powerhouse vocalists backed by your Symphony and dreams of martinis (shaken, not stirred), Aston Martins, custom watches from Q, and the beloved MI6 agent. With hits from Bond movie favorites like Goldfinger, Skyfall, and more, start the new year in style by unleashing your inner Bond (or Bond girl).

Darko Butorac, conductor
Mikki Sodergren, vocalist
Jonathan Christopher, vocalist

Asheville Symphony Orchestra

May 3, 2022 | 8:00pm

Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil

Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH

'Vespers' is often considered Rachmaninoff's greatest choral work, and a part of the piece was requested by the composer to be performed at his own funeral. Following the January 27, 2023 release of The Clarion Choir's recording of the work, and in celebration of Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday, the Choir performs it on the stage where the composer himself performed as a pianist and conductor more than 80 times.

The Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, Artistic Director and Conductor
Mikki Sodergren, Mezzo-Soprano
John Ramseyer, Tenor

May 5, 2022 | 8:00pm

Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil

Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall

New York, NY

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The Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, Artistic Director and Conductor
Mikki Sodergren, Mezzo-Soprano
John Ramseyer, Tenor

June 15, 2022 | 8:00pm

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

Perelman Stage | Carnegie Hall

New York, NY

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The Met Orchestra and The Metropolitan Opera Chorus perform Brahms’s grandest creation: his Requiem. This sublime piece of sacred music is a profoundly uplifting and unusually humanistic work. The chance to experience it in the acoustics of Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, where the uncompromised depth of these ensembles’ sound can reverberate through the concert hall, is not to be missed. Soprano Nadine Sierra and baritone Quinn Kelsey join in this singular masterpiece of the choral repertory.

The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Nadine Sierra, Soprano
Quinn Kelsey, Baritone
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Previous engagements of note:

September 6 - September 21, 2019

World Premiere: Looking At You

by Kamala Sankaram, Rob Handel

Brooke, Agent Baker, Journalist

Reviews:

Wall Street Journal | New York Classical Review

National Sawdust | Opera News

Friday, October 18, 2020 | 8:00pm

Star Crossed Lovers: A Night of Broadway Pops

Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra

Soloist, Curator, Mikki Sodergren

Soloist, Michael Maliakel

Conductor, Joshua Gersen

Ruby Diamond Hall | Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL

From My Fair Lady to Waitress, Carousel to The Bridges of Madison County, this original, brand-new show features beloved, Broadway classics and new standards with a fun story between two “almost” lovers. This show explores some of the greatest scores of the Broadway stage, with two exceptional Broadway voices.

Sunday, October 20, 2020 | 4:00pm

Haydn: Harmoniemesse

Mezzo Soprano Solo: Mikki Sodergren

Soprano: Jessica Beebe | Tenor: Brian Giebler

Bass: Jonathan Woody | Conductor: Steven Fox

Washington Bach Consort, Cathedral Choral Society

National Cathedral | 301 Wisconsin Ave NW

Washington, D.C.

Sparkling with joy and vitality, Haydn's exuberant Te Deum and Harmoniemesse are paired with Mozart's shimmering "Laudate Dominum." Written at the height of his musical powers, Haydn's masterful Harmoniemesse is virtuosic and exhilarating music.

June 4, 2022 | 8:00 pm

Ode to Joy

Thomas Wolfe Auditorium | Asheville Symphony

Asheville, NC

Beethoven’s most magnificent work closes the Asheville Symphony’s season — a much-needed celebration following a year marked by turmoil, creativity, and resilience. Coupled with Copland’s rousing Fanfare for the Common Man and Tower’s feminist answer, we close the season together, unified by our love for live music.

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man

Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Mikki Sodergren, Mezzo Soprano Soloist

Darko Butorac, Conductor