2019-2020 appearances include a full recital for Opera Orlando's Opera on Park series, scenes from West Side Story for Gulfshore Opera's Song and Dance, and a faculty recital for the Nisita Concert Series at Florida Gulf Coast University. She was also a featured soloist on national radio, San Francisco's Classical KDFC, as part of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale broadcasts.
2018-2019 highlights include Micaëla in Magic City Opera's Carmen; a debut with the Naples Philharmonic as soloist in their Link-Up Series; Norina in Don Pasquale with Gulfshore Opera; a return to San Francisco for the "Mozart Magnified" series with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale as the featured soprano soloist in Exsultate, jubilate, Coronation Mass in C major, and Litaniae Lauretanae; and a Houston debut as Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina with Ars Lyrica Houston. The summer of 2018 saw her debut as soprano soloist for Rutter’s Requiem, J. Rutter conducting the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina; and Schubert’s Mass in G-major and Vivaldi’s Gloria in Syros, Greece with the International Festival of the Aegean.
Other roles include Antonia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) at UNT Opera, Lucia (Rape of Lucretia) at Manhattan School of Music, Blondchen (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) for the Martina Arroyo Role Learning Class, Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera) for Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance, Fire/Nightingale (L’enfant et les sortilèges) for Coópera: Project Opera of Manhattan, Susan Hoerschner (Clarence and Anita) for the Center of Contemporary Opera NY, Adina, Norina, and Musetta for Centro Studi Lirica in Italy, and Frasquita in Carmen with Dell’Arte Opera.
Notable engagements include directing and performing for Opera Hispánica NY; soprano soloist with the Zipoli Ensemble NY; appearing in venues such as the Sala Manuel de Falla in Granada, Spain under the tutelage of Teresa Berganza, the Carlos Chávez Hall of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, D.F., Avery Fischer Hall at the Lincoln Center, the Heckscher Theater at El Museo del Barrio, Steinway Hall NY, The Kaye Playhouse, the America’s Society, the Museum of the City of New York, as well as on national television broadcast network Telemundo and HBO live.
Ms. Ortiz is Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Oregon, School of Music and Dance. She completed a D.M.A. at University of North Texas, a Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music, a Bachelor of Music degree at Oral Roberts University where she double-majored in voice and violin, and is a graduate of the pre-college division of the Puerto Rico Conservatory. She is the winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation 2008 Encouragement Award and a finalist in both the Liederkranz 2009 competition, Lieder division, and the Sergei and Olga Koussevitzky 2010 Young Artists Competition. She has also served on the faculty of Florida Southwestern State College, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ave Maria University, and the Greek Opera Studio.
