Elizabeth Shammash has sung major roles with companies including New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Berkshire Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Forth Worth Opera, Sarasota Opera, Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, and the Beijing Music Festival. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, China National Symphony, Mostly Mozart Festival, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Los Angles Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Pacific Symphony, National Symphony, Boston Baroque, Early Music Vancouver, Portland (OR) Baroque and Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s Baroque Orchestra. Festival appearances include Tanglewood, Marlboro, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, and Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series. Shammash has recorded extensively for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music on the Naxos label (including two CDs of Yiddish Theatres songs), and also on the Newport Classic and Telarc labels.

Ms. Shammash holds a Master's degree in Music and Voice Performance from Manhattan School of Music, an artist diploma from Boston University's Opera Institute and a B.A. in Italian Studies from Brown University. She has been a devoted student of yoga since 1993, and received certification as a vinyasa yoga teacher from OM Yoga in New York City. She is delighted to return for her second season with Monadnock Music.