Pelagia Pamel

• Highlights:
• -Chorus, Aida in Concert, by Giuseppe Verdi — Detroit Opera (December 2022)
• -Aphrodite, Triangle, by Tony Solitro — University of Michigan (December 2022)
• -Chorus, Mahler No. 2, — Detroit Symphony Orchestra (November 2022)
• -Grasshopper & Fox Cub, The Cunning Little Vixen (in Czech), by Leoš Janáček — University of Michigan (November 2022)
• -Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss II — Berlin Opera Academy (August 2022)
• -Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, by W.A. Mozart — Vienna Summer Music Festival (July 2022)
• -Mars, Pluto, by Michael Polo — Vienna Summer Music Festival (July 2022)
• -Chorus, Beethoven No. 9, — Detroit Symphony Orchestra (May 2022)
• -Mrs. Ott, Susannah, by Carlisle Floyd — University of Michigan (December 2021)
• -“Meet Me Here” soloist & “Keep it Away from Me” trio, Considering Matthew Shepard, by Craig Hella Johnson — University of Michigan Chamber Choir (Nov. 19 2021 Live Performance & Recording, Dec. 9 2021 National Broadcast)
• Awards:
• -George Shirley Vocal Competition — Art Song Encouragement Award (May 2022)
• -Vienna Summer Music Festival Voice Competition — Finalist & Scholarship Recipient (December 2021)
• -George Shirley Vocal Competition — Semi-Finalist (May 2021)
• -Annual Merit Scholarship — University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance & Various Donors (May 2021)

Pelagia Pamel is a junior at the University of Michigan pursuing a dual degree in Voice Performance and International Studies. She studies under Daniel Washington and received the “Art Song Encouragement Award” at the George Shirley Vocal Competition in 2022.

Pelagia has sung with U-M Chamber Choir since 2020. She was the soloist for “Meet Me Here” and sang in the choreographed trio for “Keep it Away From Me” in the choir’s televised national broadcast of Considering Matthew Shepard. Last spring, Pelagia performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Hannah Lash’s In Hopes of Finding the Sun with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She returned this season for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.

Last summer, Pelagia performed in Austria as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Mars in the premiere of Pluto with Vienna Summer Music Festival and in Germany as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus with Berlin Opera Academy. She was a scholarship-receiving finalist in VSMF’s Voice Competition and BOA’s Lily Niblock Memorial Scholarship recipient.

This season, Pelagia performed as Grasshopper/Fox Cub in U-M’s The Cunning Little Vixen and as Aphrodite in U-M Chamber Opera’s Triangle. Pelagia also made her Detroit Opera debut in the chorus of Aida in Concert. In 2023, she will continue with Detroit Opera in the onstage singing and dancing chorus of Ainadamar.