Noted for her “strong, brilliant voice, particularly impressive in its upper register, and a smooth sense of legato that allowed her to soar to the higher flights with ease,” (Pittsburgh in the Round) soprano Emily Hopkins is the 2018 winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society's Major Artist Competition. Originally from Hurricane, WV,  Emily recently completed her Masters of Music in Vocal Performance at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music. She graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2015 where she sang roles such as Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Anna Maurrant in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene with the Oberlin Opera Theatre. In 2014 she made her international performing debut in the role of Magda in Oberlin In Italy’s production of Puccini’s La Rondine at the Teatro Signorelli in Cortona, Italy. In 2015 she was selected as a Marilyn Horne Rubin Scholar, a prestigious award given to classical singers with a promising future. In the spring of 2017 she reprised the role of Magda, this time with Undercroft Opera. In 2018, she performed in two of Carnegie Mellon’s opera productions as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Elisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto. She was most recently heard as Wellgunde in Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s production of Das Rheingold and in scenes with Marshall Opera Studio as Adina in L’elisir d’amore.