Mezzo-soprano Krysty Swann is the recipient of the New York City Opera 2009 Richard F. Gold Career Grant and the 2008 Intermezzo Foundation Award, given by the prestigious Elardo International Opera Competition. Other recent awards include the Silver Prize with Opera Index and a Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation grant for 2006-07 and 2008-09.

In the 2010-2011 season, Ms. Swann has performed Handel’s Messiah with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana with the Opera Orchestra of New York and conducted by Alberto Veronisi. The will also be covering Schwertleite in Die Walkure with the Metropolitan Opera, and she will participate in the Bregenz Festival in Austria.

This past season, Ms. Swann appeared as Emilia in Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's The Firebrand of Florence with the Collegiate Chorale conducted by Ted Sperling and an opera gala concert with Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Swan also participated in various outreach programs with New York City Opera. She also returned to the New York City Opera as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly.

Ms. Swann has also recently covered the title role of Margaret Garner in the New York premiere of Richard Danielpour's opera with New York City Opera and made her Avery Fisher Hall debut in Verdi's Requiem. In addition, she joined the roster of Opera Orchestra of New York for performances of Puccini's Edgar under Eve Queler. Ms. Swann has also appeared with Michigan Opera Theatre and the International Vocal Arts Institute, Israel.

A recent graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Ms. Swann was featured on the cover of the July 2007 issue of Opera News with acclaimed dramatic mezzo Dolora Zajick. Additionally, at the Manhattan School of Music she received critical acclaim in Vaughan-Williams' Riders to the Sea and as Madame de la Haltiere in Massenet's Cendrillon.