The Financial Times (London) acclaimed that “Korliss Uecker, a bright and pretty American soprano, was charming, crystalline of voice and sparkling as an actress.”

Uecker has sung over 140 performances at the Metropolitan Opera including Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro (international broadcast), Marzelline in Fidelio, Oscar in Masked Ball, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Clorinda in La Cenerentola. At the Met she also sang Giannetta in The Elixir of Love with Luciano Pavarotti and Frasquita in Carmen with Placido Domingo. Other roles include Micaela (Carmen), Susannah ( Floyd), Violetta (Traviata), Pamina ( Magic Flute), Elvira (Don Giovanni), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Despina (Cosi fan Tutte), Adina (Elixir), Norina (Don Pasquale), Lucia & Manon.

Other opera credits include Strasbourg Opera (France), Opera de Monte Carlo, Wexford Festival (Ireland), Venezuela Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, Dallas Opera, Washington Opera Kennedy Center, the Spoleto Festival, Tanglewood Festival, Ravinia Festival, United States Naval Academy and the Library of Congress, and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning and Live from Lincoln Center.

Korliss has appeared as a soloist with many symphony orchestras including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra, including conductors James Levine, Donald Runnicles, Sir Andrew Davis, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Jurowski, Edo de Waart, Julius Rudel, Gerard Schwarz and Eve Queler.

An advocate of contemporary music, Ms. Uecker has premiered works of Lowell Liebermann, Dominick Argento, Seymour Barab, Juliana Hall, John Corigliano, Judith Weir and Andre Previn. Ms. Uecker premiered Dallas Opera’s Valentino by Dominick Argento. She performed the European premiere of Andre Previn’s opera A Streetcar Named Desire. Ms. Uecker worked with Gian Carlo Menotti singing Amelia in Amelia Goes to the Ball. She created the role of Sybil for Lowell Liebermann‘s opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray for Opera Monte Carlo.

In chamber music, Uecker has appeared at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Academy of Music Festival and the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, among others. She is a member of Feminine Musique, a Duo dedicated to the performance of music by women composers as well as traditional duet literature. In 2023 Feminine Musique gave the US premiere of Cécile Chaminade’s Messe pour Deux Voix Égale. Recent cabaret performances include appearances at the Poisson Rouge and Maureen’s Jazz Cellar.

Upcoming concerts include the Library of Congress, Verdi’s Defiant Requiem, Hudson River Museum Winter Concert, University of Calgary & performances of Grammy winner Richard Danielpour’s The Seasons.

Ms. Uecker has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, London Decca, Arabesque Records, and recorded Victor Herbert’s Babes in Toyland at Abbey Road Studios in London. Her most recent recording with New World Records features the songs of Victor Herbert. She recorded unpublished songs of Clara Schumann, to much acclaim, on Arabesque Records. She recorded the soundtrack to the movie, Influence, directed by Michael Bergman. She has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning and Live from Lincoln Center with Thomas Hampson.

In addition to her singing career, Ms. Uecker is frequently a Master Class teacher, adjudicator, and lecturer with such institutions as the Manhattan School of Music, the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann/Laffont Competition, Columbia University, Minnesota Opera Summer Program and Queens Summer Vocal Institute. She has been a consultant for the Steamboat Opera Young Artist Program. Ms. Uecker is on the board of Action for Artists, an organization that helps young professional musicians. She is on the advisory board for the Music Conservatory of Westchester. Summer 2023 Korliss was on faculty at the Collaborative Piano Institute at Louisiana State University and the Queens Summer Vocal Institute.

Ms. Uecker is the Director of Theater Arts at the Music Conservatory of Westchester. MCW Theater Arts is a nonprofit program for economically disadvantaged gifted singers.

Korliss earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School. She earned post graduate certification, with the Juilliard Opera Center. She studied at the Steans Institute, apprenticed at the Santa Fe Opera and Tanglewood Festival. She received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Dakota and was a registered nurse before she began her singing career. Her husband Jerry Grossman is principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.