Pasadena Vocal Competition

23/04/2025

Southern California audiences have a chance to hear PVC’s 2022 First Prize Winner, the radiant soprano Magdalena Kuzma with the Santa Barbara Symphony this weekend! Toi toi toi Magdalena!

Concert Duration: Approximately 90 minutes

18/04/2025

POV: When you win First Prize, Audience Favorite AND announce your Met Debut!! Congratulations to PVC’s 2025 Winner, the radiant mezzo-soprano Emily Treigle, who will make her Metropolitan Opera Debut as the Second Lady in The Magic Flute this December!

05/04/2025

Our friends at UCLA have a special performance coming up on Sunday! Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges was a formidable figure in 18th century classical composition, and his works are now being shared with a new generation of audiences. In fact, Bologne was the original inspiration for PVC’s newest award celebrating the underrepresented composers of the African Diaspora!

The Fifth Annual Chevalier Festival celebrates Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an eighteenth-century French violinist and composer from

25/03/2025

On Saturday March 22, PVC was delighted to welcome Courtney B. Vance to present the inaugural Courtney B. Vance award to soprano Melissa Joseph, who gave a stunning performance of “I am Moses the Liberator” from Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom by Nkeiru Okoye. It was an incredible honor for our artists, staff and audience to meet Mr. Vance, and he brought an exciting level of energy to the evening’s proceedings. Thank you Mr. V and congratulations Melissa!

25/03/2025

Oh what a night! The PVC Class of 2025 with Artistic Director Catherine Miller and Artistic Advisor/Mistress of Ceremonies Jamie Chamberlin. Congratulations to all!!

Pictured left to right:
Jamie Chamberlin, Mistress of Ceremonies and PVC Artistic Advisor
Melissa Joseph, Courtney B. Vance Award
Anastasia Malliaras, Fourth Prize
Christopher James, Encouragement Award
Matthew Peterson, Encouragement Award
Emily Treigle, First Prize
Georgiana Adams, Encouragement Award
Temple Hammen, Encouragement Award
Krista Renée Pape, Second Prize
Dominic Salvati, Third Prize
Catherine Miller, Collaborative Piano and PVC Artistic Director

23/03/2025

Announcing the winners of the 2025 Pasadena Vocal Competition!! These artists graced us with storytelling, humor and DRAMA!

First Prize: Emily Treigle, mezzo-soprano
Second Prize: Krista Renée Pape, soprano
Third Prize: Dominic Salvati, tenor
Fourth Prize: Anastasia Malliaras, soprano

Encouragement Awards:
Georgiana Adams, soprano
Temple Hammen, soprano
Christopher James, counter- tenor
Matthew Peterson, baritone

23/03/2025

It's the night of the show y'all!!

22/03/2025

Some musical competitions ended at the start of the pandemic. However, the Pasadena Vocal Competition was born in 2020.

20/03/2025

See you on Saturday!!

19/03/2025

Rounding out our judging panel for the PVC Finals is Maestro Joseph Mechavich!

Conductor Joseph Mechavich has presided over productions of Porgy and Bess for Deutsche Oper Berlin/Cape Town Opera, Nixon in China for Auckland Philharmonia/New Zealand Opera, Il barbiere di Siviglia for The Washington National Opera, Turandot for Calgary Opera, Everest for Austin Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor for New Orleans Opera, La Bohème for Florida Grand Opera, Silent Night for Arizona Opera, and Florencia en el Amazonas for San Diego Opera.

Mo. Mechavich is a champion of the music of Carlisle Floyd and Jake Heggie having paced productions of Floyd’s Susannah, Of Mice and Men, and Cold Sassy Tree and recorded Wuthering Heights; as well as Heggie’s Moby-Dick, Great Scott, If I Were You, Out of Darkness: Two Remain, Three Decembers, Another Sunrise, Before It All Goes Dark, and Dead Man Walking. Maestro Mechavich studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Yale University School of Music.

17/03/2025

Thank you to Pasadena Weekly for the opportunity to share the story behind our newest prize! Our Final Round is on March 22- read more below!

Some musical competitions ended at the start of the pandemic. However, the Pasadena Vocal Competition was born in 2020.