Taylor Burgess - Soprano

Based in Amsterdam, soprano Taylor Burgess brings over a decade of classical and jazz expertise to the global stage. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz with a minor in Opera Studies from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music and a Performer Certificate from the Aaron Copland School of Music. Notably, Ms. Burgess made history as the first Black graduate of the Dutch National Opera Academy, where she earned her Master of Music. Since relocating to the Netherlands, she has expanded her reach into popular media as a guest performer on the hit Dutch television show MAESTRO, collaborating with a diverse array of conductors and musicians.

Following this success, in December 2022, Ms. Burgess was a soloist with the Jussen Brothers performing a Dutch National Tour of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasie. In February 2023, Taylor was a soloist in an orchestral concert tour conducted by Wayne Marshall singing Afro-American hymns. In June 2023, she performed the role of Eurydice in Orphée et Eurydice in the Festival Classique as her graduation piece / professional solo debut. In the early half of her professional debut year (2023/24), she began singing with the chorus at the Dutch National Opera and Ballet. There she performed alongside the ensemble in productions of Innocence by Kaija Saariaho and Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, where she sang as first Edelkenaben and Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang A. Mozart. 

She performed her Metropolitan Opera House debut in the revival production of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, April and May 2024. Following this production, she finished the 2023 / 2024 season with the Dutch National Opera and Ballet’s production of Beethoven’s Fidelio. Autumn 2024, Ms. Burgess began singing with the Nederlands Kamerkoor NXT, where she collaborated with seven other singers to create the chamber choir of the next generation. This group prepared for a production called Nachtwacht, which had a 25-show tour throughout the Netherlands with the performance group NITE, during spring 2025, and will continue to have a revival through spring 2026. 

In winter of 2025 you may have also seen Taylor singing with the chorus of the National Opera and Ballet in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. December and January 2025/26, she returned to sing with the Met Chorus in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. While in the states, she will conduct a solo tour titled Winter Moon, showcasing writers of the Harlem Renaissance through Art song. Debuting March 2026, Taylor is set to be featured as Doctor Wheeler in Cannes award winning film director and composer Michel van der Aa's film-opera titled Theory of Flames, as well as Mieczysław Weinberg’s Die Passegierin at the National Opera and Ballet.