Handel Aria Competition
Grace Episcopal Church 116 W. Washington Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
media release: We are delighted to introduce our finalists for 2025! This year’s competition will take place on Friday, August 8 in Grace Episcopal Church in Madison. In person and livestream tickets will go on sale in July - you won’t want to miss this evening of Handel music.
These seven singers will each be performing two arias, accompanied by the Madison Bach Musicians under the direction of Trevor Stephenson. Please take a moment to visit their websites - they are all already exceptionally accomplished!
Elisse Albian, soprano elissealbian.com
Fredy Bonilla, baritone fredybonilla.com
Sam Denler, tenor samdenler.com
Paulina Francisco, soprano paulinafrancisco.com
Morgan Mastrangelo, tenor morganmastrangelo.com
Trevor Scott, tenor trevorscotttenor.com
Jeremy Weiss, baritone jeremyweissperformer.com
This year we have increased our cash prizes for 2025 to $7,000, thanks in part to donations in memory of our co-founder Dean Schroeder. As always, our competition is unique in that we will be providing all finalists with home hospitality and a travel grant of up to $600 so they can afford to come here to participate. The singers are always appreciative of the fact that they are accompanied on period instruments by the Madison Bach Musicians, and that they receive high quality videos that are posted on our YouTube channel and can be used for future auditions. We’re pleased to note that the videos from the past four Handel Aria Competitions have been viewed some 50,000 times by lovers of Baroque music around the world.