Megan Weston

ACCLAIMED Voice teacher & SOPRANO

Soprano Megan Weston is an instructor of voice at Columbia University, Teachers College, where she works with graduate and doctoral students in the Music Department and throughout the university. She has conducted masterclasses for the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and La Sierra University, among others. Additionally, she serves as the General Director of Athena Music Foundation, a non-profit performing arts organization dedicated to introducing new and diverse audiences to opera and classical music while supporting the careers of emerging and professional artists. She is a member of the board of directors for the Premiere Opera Foundation and annually presents the Athena Prize to the first-place winner of the foundation’s vocal competition. 

Throughout her career, Megan Weston has performed a diverse repertoire, encompassing lyric coloratura, light lyric soprano, and soubrette roles, including Lightfoot McClendon in the world premiere production of Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree (San Diego Opera), Despina in Così fan tutte (Utah Opera), Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffmann (Tulsa Opera), Lisa in La sonnambula (Caramoor International Music Festival), Norina in Don Pasquale (Lyric Opera San Diego), Constance in the premiere of Mitchell Bach’s Les trois mousquetaires (Phoenicia Festival of the Voice), and more recently the Swallow and Match Girl in Sergio Cervetti’s Elegy for a Prince (DCINY at Carnegie Hall). She has performed recitals and concerts worldwide with the Joroinen Festival, Finland, St. Amand de Vergt Festival, France, the Metropolitan Opera Guild at Lincoln Center, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and on PBS and NHK Television in Japan. She has sung with many symphony orchestras, including the San Diego Symphony, Cape Symphony, Orchestra Nova, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in repertoire ranging from Carmina Burana and the Verdi Requiem to St. Matthew Passion and Knoxville Summer of 1915. 

Her recordings include Anne in Harold Farberman’s Diamond Street on Albany Records and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Virtues by William George. A member of BMI and SAG-AFTRA, Weston’s songs and voice have been featured on the soundtracks of The Queen’s Gambit and Perry Mason. She has received numerous awards, including prizes in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, Loren L. Zachary National Competition, and the Metropolitan Opera Western Regional Competition. Megan Weston is a graduate of Columbia University, Teachers College and received young artist training at San Diego Opera, Utah Opera, and Aspen Opera Theater Center.