These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Amanda Forsythe.

Grammy-winning American soprano Amanda Forsythe is a regular soloist with ensembles including Les Talens Lyriques, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival, Boston Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, Opera Prima, Pacific MusicWorks, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale. Major concert engagements in recent seasons have included performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

The 2025/26 season has featured Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and Boston Baroque, as well as returns to the Handel & Haydn Society and Early Music Vancouver. Upcoming engagements include Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem with the Colorado Symphony and Hearing Her Voice, a celebration of female perspective and talent, with Tafelmusik. In May, she will sing Bach and Handel with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and take the role of Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo with Washington Concert Opera.

Forsythe won the 2026 Best Classical Solo Vocal Album Grammy for Telemann: Ino - Opera Arias for Soprano with the Boston Early Music Festival. She sang Euridice on a recording of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers, also with the Boston Early Music Festival, which won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2015. Her discography includes more than 25 albums and DVDs, many of them premiere recordings.