A multi-disciplinarian, Leo Radosavljevic holds a bachelors and masters degree in voice from the Juilliard School, as well as a masters degree in collaborative piano from DePaul University. He made his Carnegie hall debut as a pianist at age 19 and as a singer at age 22. He was first featured in performance as both singer and pianist in the U.S. Premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davis’ opera Kommilitonen! to great acclaim from the New York Times. Mr. Radosavljevic is a native Chicagoan and found his musical beginnings singing in the Lyric Opera of Chicago children’s chorus from 1998 to 2002. He currently lives in Lincoln Park with his wife, soprano Angela De Venuto with whom he has performed with regularly as a duo. The duo were recent second prize winners of the 2022 Song Slam competition in Chicago as well as finalists in the Federation of the Art Song competition in New York, and last August were resident artists at the White Lake chamber music festival in Montague, Michigan. Leo has worked as a repetitieur for Chicago Opera Theater, DePaul University, Hearing in Color, Thomson St. Opera, Milwaukee Florentine Opera, and Teatro Nuovo. As a singer, 24-25 season highlights include the role of Vassal in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Peter Maxwell Davies’s tour de force and one man show, 8 Songs for a Mad King at the Meredith Wilson theater at Lincoln Center, as part of Carnegie Hall’s Dancing on the Precepice: The fall of the Weimar Republic festival, and covering the roles of Bonito, Eduardo, and Diego in Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In competition, Mr. Radosavljevic recently received the Esther Korshin award and 4th prize from the Oratorio Society of New York, and was one of this year’s grant winners at the 31st annual New York Wagner Society competition last May.