Specializing in the works of Baroque composers, Liz is currently focusing on bravura arias of Rameau, Telemann, and French works.

Liz Kiger is a Turkish-American non-binary soprano vocalist, violinist, and opera director specializing in Baroque performance practice. They are the founder and director of the Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society, one of the first primarily digital opera companies, focused on providing LGBTQIA emerging artists with opportunities reinterpreting Baroque operas as feature films, thereby bringing opera to new audiences through inclusion and accessibility. Their work with BTCS has been featured on numerous podcasts and most notably via @360ofopera and OperaWire.com. 

In 2026, they performed for Church of Holy Apostles as Knowledge of God in Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum directed by Rocky Duvall and Kevin Devine. Afterwards they released the music video Porgi Amor starring GaDa Lambert in collaboration with Opera Atlantic. They then set off to Germany to assistant direct Humperdinck’s Dornröschen & Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona under Director James Dickinson. In August & September they are premiering Phèdre: Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie and doing related guest lectures and screenings along the East Coast. In October they will be stage directing the play The Eleusinian Rites: Persephone Immersive by Soyoung Hwang with Executive Producer Abe Amy Chang in NYC. In November, they are directing Monteverdi’s: Ulisses (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) with Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society.

They are currently Director in Residence for NJ’s Opera Atlantic where they directed a fully staged scenes production for Fall 2025’s Tales for a Starry Night. https://www.operaatlantic.org/tickets.

2023 & 2024 They were in-production/post-production for the feature-length film Phèdre: Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. They guest lectured at Yale University, Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, and Columbia on early music topics. Their vocals were featured in the Kravis Nightcap Series, a NY Philharmonic event, with Chromic Duo.

From 2022-2023 they served as adjunct faculty at Columbia University where they directed Collegium Musicum (their Antiquity through Baroque choral ensemble) and produced/directed works for their Operatic Feminisms Symposium. https://music.columbia.edu/events/columbia-operatic-feminisms-symposium-march-25th-2023. In 2022 they also presented a new interpretation of Couperin’s Trois Leçons de Ténèbres (Three Lessons of Darkness) (1714) with Emerging Artist’s Theatre off-Broadway alongside soprano Hannah Shanefield and harpsichordist Nicola Canzano. Their music video Tristes apprets premiered with New Faces New Voices Film Festival, a subset of Katra Film Festival, NYC and Everyday Arias Film Festival, London England.

Their cinematic version of Gluck’s Orfeo, released 2021, won Best Female Director & Best Narrative Feature at the Anatolian Film Awards in Istanbul, Turkey.

Liz holds their MM in Classical Vocal Performance and a post graduate degree in Vocal Pedagogy from NYU. They received a BA in Music History and Vocal Performance from Goucher College. They have a specialty interest and focus on the history of Castrati in early opera, as they are often called upon to perform these roles due to the unique timbre of their voice brought about by their vocal pathology. 

Liz is a proud advocate for singers who also have incurable vocal pathologies and has extensive training in working with singers with various pathologies through NYU Langone’s postgraduate vocology program. When not working with singers, Liz also conducts and directs string ensembles and loves working with adult clients who are new to learning an instrument. 

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