A Fulbright Scholar to Austria, Brooke Evers performed in Vienna, Berlin, and Milan before returning to her hometown D.C., where she has been heard as a soloist at the Kennedy Center, the Embassy of Austria, the National Cathedral, the National Shrine, National Presbyterian, the Strathmore Mansion, and the Schlesinger Center, as well as the Chautauqua Institution in New York.


As a current Opera Lafayette Young Artist Brooke has appeared in productions of Le Roi et le Fermier, Armide, Acis and Galatea, and the upcoming Lalla Roukh. She is a regular soloist with the Masterworks Chorus led by Erik Reid Jones, and has been a member of and soloist with the Washington Bach Consort led by J. Reilly Lewis and New Dominion Chorale of Thomas Beveridge.  Her solo engagements have included Elijah, the Brahms, Mozart and Fauré Requiems, Handel’s Messiah and Creation, and the Bach St. John Passion and B Minor Mass. Under special invitation, Brooke toured Germany as a member of Helmut Rilling’s Festival Ensemble Stuttgart.


 

    As a gifted recitalist Brooke has performed in D.C.'s Epiphany, Westmoreland, Truro, Living Arts, and Concordia Concert series. Brooke regularly champions new music in her performances, recently highlighting works of Kipyn Martin and Lowell Liebermann. Brooke also worked with conductor Julian Wachner of The Washington Chorus and the composer Nico Muhly in premier performances of his works, and she premiered the roles of Lydia and Lucy in Kirke Mechem’s The Newport Rivals with the Maryland Opera Studio.


Known for her versatility of style, Brooke has been a winner and finalist of competitions in categories of opera, oratorio, art song, baroque music and jazz including the Vocal Arts Discovery Series, American Bach Competition, Louisville Bach Competition, the New York Oratorio Society Competition, Liederkranz, the Washington International Competition, and the Billie Holiday Jazz Competition. She has established herself as an entertaining cabaret artist by producing and performing several of her own original shows, appearing regularly at Baltimore and Washington venues.


Recognized in particular for her expertise in German Lieder, Brooke was awarded the David Gundlach Lied Prize in The Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition.  Her Fulbright studies of Lieder in Austria led her to the Franz-Schubert-Institut and later to the Ravinia Festival of Chicago; she has participated in masterclasses of Elly Ameling, Renée Fleming, Wolfgang Holzmair, Helmut Deutsch, James Conlon, and others.  Brooke has also collaborated as a performer in a lecture-recital by the renowned Hugo Wolf scholar, Louise McClelland Urban.


Brooke serves on faculty at Shepherd University and has also taught at American University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Maryland, where she received her Master of Music and performed leading roles as a member of the Maryland Opera Studio. She received Bachelor’s degrees in Voice and German from Indiana University.