Possessing a luminous voice with "the breadth of dramatic inflection to make for a powerfully effective performance" (Opera), soprano Arianna Zukerman is equally in demand for opera and concert performances. The Washington Post observes "Arianna Zukerman possesses a remarkable voice that combines the range, warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos that would make any soprano jealous."

Arianna Zukerman's 2009-10 season features several reengagements including the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra (Lisbon) to sing Salieri's Requiem, Music of the Baroque in Mozart's Requiem, and National Arts Centre singing Mozart's "Ch'io mi scordi di te". She also sings First Lady in Die Zauberflöte and as soloist in "Black & White Opera Soirée," with Opera Lyra Ottawa; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra; in a recital titled "Virgins, Vixens, Muses and Dames" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC); Messiah with both the New Choral Society and University of Richmond; Mozart's Requiem with Washington Chorus; Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with National Philharmonic; Verdi's Requiem with Rochester Philharmonic; Rossini's Stabat Mater and Bruckner's Te Deum at UC/Davis; Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate and "L'amero saro costante" at Ravinia Festival; and in recital with pianist Navah Perlman for El Paso Pro Musica.

In 2008-09, Ms. Zukerman sang as soloist in Mozart's Requiem in a return to the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman conducting; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard with the Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting; Verdi's Requiem with the Springfield Symphony; Messiah with both the Rochester Philharmonic and Alabama Symphony; Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate and "L'amero saro costante" with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra; and Fauré's Requiem, Mendelssohn's Magnificat, and Hör mein Bitten with Berkshire Choral Festival. She also appeared in recital at Joplin Pro Musica, the University of Montevallo, and the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC. In summer of 2009 she returned to Chateauville Foundation to reprise the role of Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia under Lorin Maazel, with performances at the conductor's estate in Virginia; appeared at Festival Classique den Haag in the Netherlands with violinist Daniel Hope in James Whitbourn's Annelies; and at the Berkshire Choral Festival in Montreal singing Mendelssohn's Paulus, with Julian Wachner conducting.

Previous highlights include performing as soloist in Haydn's The Seasons with Music of the Baroque under Jane Glover; Neikrug's Nachtlieder and Debussy's Fall of the House of Usher with the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra under Lawrence Foster; Britten's War Requiem in a return to the National Philharmonic; Musetta in La bohème with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center in Philadelphia and at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival under Rossen Milanov; and Handel's Messiah with the American Bach Soloists (recorded for the Naxos label). In the summer of 2008 Ms. Zukerman also debuted with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Series.

Ms. Zukerman's extensive concert career includes performances with an impressive group of conductors including Jane Glover with Berkshire Choral Festival, Pinchas Zukerman with National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Baltimore and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, and Marin Alsop with the Colorado Symphony. She recently made her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut under James Levine in Moses und Aron and her Philadelphia Orchestra debut singing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under Rossen Milanov in Philadelphia and Charles Dutoit at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Internationally, she has performed Mozart's Mass in C Minor and Handel's Solomon under Ivor Bolton with the Israel Philharmonic, Messiah with the English Symphony Orchestra; and Mozart's Requiem and concert arias as well as Vivaldi's Gloria with Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Constantine Orbelian. She has performed with Rochester Philharmonic in Libby Larsen's Notes Slipped Under the Door and Mahler's Symphony No. 4, and has also appeared with the Seattle, and Jackson Symphony Orchestras, at the Kennedy Center with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, Cathedral Choral Society in Washington, DC, and in multiple appearances at the Savannah Music Festival.

Other opera highlights include her first collaboration with Lorin Maazel as Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia; her debut with the New York City Opera in Mark Adamo's Lysistrata; performing the Governess in The Turn of the Screw with Chicago Opera Theater; her return to the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera to sing Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, after singing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte; her debut with Arizona Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte; Micaëla in Carmen with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Vail Valley Music Festival; Marzelline in Fidelio with the Minnesota Orchestra (Andrew Litton conducting); Nizza in the world premiere of Donizetti's Elisabeth, conducted by Will Crutchfield at the Caramoor Music Festival; and the role of Wilma in the world premiere of Jean-Michel Damase's Ochelata's Wedding at the OK Mozart Festival.

Ms. Zukerman appears frequently in solo recitals in the United States and Europe. An accomplished chamber musician, she continues to enjoy an ongoing collaboration with the Miami String Quartet which has taken them to many prominent chamber music venues including Kent State University, the Hartt School, the Chamber Music Series at the University of Oregon, and the Pro Arte Musical in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Certain that the arts are a link to higher achievement in all areas of life, Arianna Zukerman maintains an active schedule as an Adjunct Professor at Catholic University of America and in master classes around the United States. A past recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Award, Ms. Zukerman was a member of the Bavarian State Opera Junges Ensemble. She studied theatre at Brown University and received her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School. She resides with her husband in Washington, DC.