Megan Ortman (she/her) is a DC-based administrator, soprano, and scholar, and she's thrilled to join the CCW team as the Program Manager.

A native Texan, Ms. Ortman spent her youth in the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas under the batons of Cynthia Nott and Norah Henson and has loved choral singing ever since. Ms. Ortman has sung in operas and choral ensembles around the world, some favorite roles being Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and the Erste Knabe in Die Zauberflote. Her repertoire spans from the 14th to 21st Centuries, and she regularly gigs as a chorister, section leader, and soloist in the greater Washington, DC area. 

As a historian, Ms. Ortman has researched music of all kinds across the Atlantic World. In 2023, she programmed and performed a recital titled Voicing Femininity, in which she presented an interconnectedness of feminine expression across 19th-century aria and art song. In 2021, she received the prestigious “Sons of the Revolution Award” from the DC chapter of The Sons of the Revolution for excellent writing on a topic of American Art and History. Past research topics include Scott Joplin and his opera, Treemonisha, Theodor Adorno’s commentary on jazz, the political ramifications of Early Modern American song sheets, John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, and the songs of Troubador women in 12th-Century Occitania.

She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the George Washington University with degrees in both Music and History. Learn more at meganortman.com.