Mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams has been lauded by Opera News for her “velvety mezzo” as well as how she “phrased with elegance and articulated coloratura nimbly.”

In the 2018-19 season, Ms. Reams will make her opera debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago, singing Flora in La Traviata, as well as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at Opera Columbus. She will be singing the title role in Opera Louisiane’s production of Carmen. She will be making her company and role debut as Marget in Des Moines Metro Opera’s production of Wozzeck. On the symphonic front, Ms. Reams will performing Bernstein’s First Symphony, Jeremiah, with the Staatstheatre Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as Handel’s Messiah with the Auburn University Orchestra and the New Choral Society of Scarsdale, New York.

In the 2017-2018 season, Ms. Reams sang Maddalena in Rigoletto at Wolf Trap Opera, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the National Symphony Orchestra, and Handel’s Messiah with the Las Vegas Philharmonic. Zoie completed her studies with the Houston Grand Opera studio, where she sang Flora in La traviata, Dritte Magd in Elektra, and Rosalia in West Side Story, amongst many others.

Prior highlights at Houston Grand Opera include the Third Secretary in John Adams’s Nixon in China, the Alto Winged Angel in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s It’s A Wonderful Life, and the world premiere of Kaminsky’s Some Light Emerges. Ms. Reams has also performed as Clarice in La pietra del paragone with Wolf Trap Opera, Tituba in Ward’s The Crucible with the Glimmerglass Festival, the Sandmännchen in Hänsel und Gretel with Opera Louisiane, and on the concert stage, Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Her awards include second place at Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition (2016), first place winner of the Emerging Artist division of the Classical Singer Competition (2015), and second place winner of the Gulf Coast Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2016). She holds a Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University, where she sang Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Katisha in _The Mikad_o, and Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict. She earned her Bachelor of Music at Lawrence University.