She has taught musicianship, group voice lessons, and music history as a teaching assistant at San Francisco State University and UC San Diego. While working towards her doctorate in music at UC San Diego, Meghann had the honor of studying with Pulitzer Prize winning composer and pianist Anthony Davis, and Grammy winning New Music champion Susan Naruki. At UCSD, she taught voice lessons to undergraduate voice majors and minors and served as an associate instructor, designing and teaching the first serious course on karaoke – a class that critically explored identity and social rituals through voice and music. She dabbled in theater as a composer, performer, and actor: in 2014 she was hired by The La Jolla Playhouse to create and perform music for the original production Suzette Who Set To Sea. Outside of the classical music world, Meghann performed with Happy Traum and Jim Kweskin, jazz luminary Karl Berger, and played tenor banjo with the award-winning old time group, G Burns Jug Band – touring the country and sharing festivals with the likes of Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Del McCoury Band. Performance highlights include singing Boulez’s Improvisation sur Mallarmé with the Palimpsest Ensemble under the baton of Steven Schick, the role of Micäela in Bizet’s Carmen under the direction of Nicole Paiement and Brian Staufenbiel, Elmire in Kirk Meacham’s Tartuffe, Socrate in Erik Satie’s Socrate with the Kallisti Ensemble, the soprano soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Shostakovich’s Seven Poems of Alexander Blok, and Vivaldi’s cantata, Lungi Dal Vago Volto with Agave Baroque.
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Meghann Welsh is a classically trained soprano whose creative work spans opera, country and blues, free improvisation, and contemporary and baroque chamber music.