Sherezade Panthaki is an acclaimed soloist and specialist in early music. She is known internationally for performing beloved 17th and 18th century works, such as Handel's Messiah, in a new and exciting way. Panthaki is in demand as an opera and oratorio soloist, with a wide repertoire that includes Bach, Handel, Mozart, Purcell, Vivaldi, and other composers of the Baroque period. Accompanying her in this recital are early-music musicians from Yale University, playing harpsichord, organ, lute and theorbo (a small baroque guitar). Panthaki holds the 2011 Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music-- a program that accepts one soprano per year. In 2011 she was invited to join the staff of the Yale Baroque Opera Project, where she is the principal vocal coach for undergraduate singers at Yale University. She comes to Red Bank following performances in Kansas City, Edinbugh, London, San Francisco and the Netherlands. Her spring schedule includes performances in New York at Carnegie Zankel Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
