Soprano Sharla Nafziger has performed almost 70 works in the oratorio and concert repertoire, and has appeared with opera companies, symphony orchestras, choral societies and festivals across North America, including recent performances with New York City Opera, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of Houston, Vancouver, Winnipeg, New Jersey, Colorado, Huntsville (AL), and Monterey, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Choral Arts Society of Washington at the Kennedy Center, and the Elora Festival (Canada).  She appears regularly at Bach festivals in Winter Park (FL) and in the Shenandoah Valley (VA). She has appeared in recital across her native Canada and in Europe, and made her New York recital debut at Merkin Hall as the 2001 winner of Joy in Singing.  She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2002 with the Oratorio Society of New York. 

Ms. Nafziger  can be heard on the Naxos label in Scott Wheeler's opera The Construction of Boston (role of Niki de St.  Phalle) and Lully’s Ballet Music for the Sun King, the Telarc label in Die Agytische Helena (Erste Elfe), on Albany Records in the premiere recording of Larry Nelson’s Clay Songs, and on the ERM label in the premiere recording of Boaz Tarsi’s Concerto for Soprano. Her most recent recording was released by the Moravian Music Foundation, called Loveliest Immanuel, a solo disc with the Winter Park Bach Festival Society.  She has been actively teaching voice for almost 20 years to students of all ages, in various genres and at various levels of experience.