BIOGRAPHY
In the 2022/23 season Marieke will be featured in the world premiere of O-LAN's Iceland with Overtone Industries. With Bronx Opera she performs in The Messiah and sings the role of Liza Elliott in an outreach production of Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark. She also performs the role of Giunone in La Calisto with Mannes Opera.
In the 2021/22 season Marieke made her radio debut with South Africa's RSG radio broadcast of the Salon Music Christmas Concert with Brooklyn Theatre TV and Gauteng Philharmonic Orchestra. With Mannes Opera she performed in Huang Ruo's Dr Sun Yat-Sen and covered the role of Jutta in Grace McLean's In The Green. She joined the International Contemporary Ensemble's Ensemble Evolution 2022 and performed with Really Spicy Opera and the Art Song Preservation Society of New York. Marieke won the Alsop Foundation Entrepreneurship Award for performing arts and was finalist of the Boosey & Hawkes International Sing Finzi competition and Concorso Internazionale Città di Alessandria.
In 2020/21 Marieke made her role debuts as Dido in Dido and Aeneas with DePaul University and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Supernova Opera. She appeared in concerts with Johannesburg Opera. Marieke was interviewed on the ETV Morning show about her composition Born of Angels as an Emerging Artist with the Windybrow Art Center. 2021 saw the premiere of Marieke's first song cycle Never Again, based on works by the Kenyan poet Valentine Kizito, which was featured on the Lieder Laboratory podcast.
Past roles include Tamara in Rubinstein's The Demon with Russian Opera Workshop, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with DePaul University, and Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor with the Austrian American Mozart Academy. Marieke has won first prize at the Charleston International Music Competition and second prize at the Hal Leonard Vocal Competition. She was a George and Phyllis Muccianti Vocal Scholarship winner at Casa Italia in Chicago. She has performed in concerts and recitals in the US, Italy, Austria and South Africa.