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Soprano Sherezade Panthaki was the winner in two categories at the 2024-25 San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards for musical performances across the Bay Area. She was awarded "Favorite Opera Singer," and "Favorite Vocal Recital" for her work with the celebrated early music ensemble, Voices of Music.
Sherezade Panthaki headlined Bach Collegium San Diego's season opener in October 2026 to critical acclaim as the soprano soloist in a concert of Mozart and Haydn, as reported in San Diego Story's concert review - "Panthaki used her bright soprano to elegantly shape her phrases with dynamic contrasts that also reflected the text. Is there a more recognizable sacred aria than Mozart’s “Laudate Dominum” (Psalm 117)? Panthaki’s lustrous soprano graced its soaring musical arcs with a radiant sense of spiritual devotion."
Sherezade Panthaki played a featured role in multiple performances of the Boston Early Music Festival's fully-staged centerpiece opera, "Octavia", by German Baroque composer Reinhard Keiser . The biennial festival is the largest of its kind in the United States, showcasing the finest international talent in early music and historical performance. Ms. Panthaki's singing and stage presence received outstanding reviews in multiple press outlets, including the Boston Globe, and Opera Wire. (June 2025)
Sherezade Panthaki is the featured soprano soloist with the Washington Bach Consort on a World Premiere recording released this month. Entitled "A New Song", this is a brand new multi-movement work for 3 soloists, choir and orchestra by award-winning African-American composer Trevor Weston, and one of three World Premieres that have been specifically written for Ms. Panthaki this season.
Sherezade Panthaki sang as the soprano soloist in Haydn's "Creation" on tour in Austria and Germany in Summer 2022, with the internationally renowned Vienna-based orchestra, Orchester Wiener Akademie.
Made her Austrian solo performance debut to wide acclaim with the Orchester Wiener Akademie at the historic Vienna Musikverein. Panthaki is internationally renown as an early music specialist, and sang the soprano solo role in Handel's oratorio "Alexander's Feast".
