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Eglise Gutierrez made her professional debut in August of 2003 as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor in Bogota, Colombia under the baton of Will Crutchfield, and repeated the role this spring with Maestro Willie Waters in Hartford with the Connecticut Opera Association.
In May 2004 Miss Gutierrez made her Carnegie Hall debut as soprano solist in Mozart's Requiem under the baton of John Rutter. She has been busy collecting top prizes including First Prize in the August 2004 International Mirjam Helin Competition in Helsinki, the West Palm Beach Opera Competition, the New Jersey State Opera Competition, and the Connecticut Opera Competition. She was the 2nd Prize-winner in the Loren Zachary Opera Competition, and was a Finalist in the Francisco Vinas International Voice Competition.

In 2004-05 Ms. Gutierrez will debut the role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto with the Connecticut Grand Opera, operatic galas with the Sacramento Symphony, the Johnstown Symphony, and the Finnish National Opera Orchestra, followed by the title role in Lakmé at Sarasota Opera, and her Opera Orchestra of New York debut in the role of Philène in Thomas' Mignon at Carnegie Hall, will be Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and sings Beethoven's Missa Solemnis also at Carnegie Hall. In 2005-06 Miss Gutierrez will debut at the Wexford Festival in the title role of Maria di Rohan.
Miss Gutierrez's long list of awards and honors also includes Winner of the Monserat Caballé International Opera Competition, First Place in the Marian Anderson Opera Competition and Second Place in the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation Opera Competition during 2002. For this last competition, Brian Kellow of Opera News praised. "…and soprano Eglise Gutierrez, who offered a fresh approach to "Qui la voce.""
She won First Place in the Giargirai Bel Canto Opera Competition, Second Place in the Orlando Opera and J. Parkinson Italia Opera Competitions in 2001, and received First Prize in the Sun Coast Opera Competition in 2000. During the 2003-04 season Miss Gutierrez will complete her final year at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. During her studies there, she has performed several leading roles, including the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula and Nannetta in Falstaff. Additional roles in her repertoire include Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, and the title roles in Roig's Cecilia Valdes and Vives' Doña Francisquita.