During the current season, Keri Alkema plays Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther for a return engagement with the Chautauqua Opera, joins the Metropolitan Opera roster in their production of Die Walküre covering the role of Siegrune, and sings Handel’s Messiah with the Tucson Symphony and in Winter Park, Florida. She will be heard in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Florida Bach Festival,in Mozart's Requiem with the Delaware Symphony, and will offer a recital in Oberlin, Ohio, under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. In the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Alkema made her New York City Opera debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and her Naples Opera debut as the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. She sang Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody and Bruckner's Te Deum with the Florida Bach Festival, Handel’s Messiah with the Virginia Symphony, and participated in Messia Mewas Opéra de Montréal’s Annual Gala concert. In addition, Ms. Alkema gave a solo recital under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation in Winter Park.

Ms. Alkema’s engagements for the 2005-2006 season included a stunning performance as Erika in Vanessa with Chautauqua Opera. The Chautauquan Daily said of her portrayal as Erika in Vanessa that her performance was “immensely sympathetic and hauntingly sung. The voice is full, beautiful, evenly timbre'd throughout its considerable range.” She also made her European debut as Zulma in the Treviso Opera’s production of L’Italiana in Algeri, a reprise of her role as Meg in Mark Adamo’s Little Women with Skylight Opera Theater, directed by the composer, and a cover of Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri with the Washington National Opera. She offered recitals for the Marilyn Horne Foundation series ‘On Wings of Song’ in Brownville, Nebraska, and for the Arts Song of Williamsburg Concert series.

While a member of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera, Ms. Alkema sang Clotilda in Norma, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Flora in La Traviata, and Angelina in La Cenerentola. For her role as Angelina, a journalist with The Washington Post claimed that “she sang the title role as well as I have ever heard it done, with a particularly electrifying Non piu mesta.” During the 2004 – 2005 season, Ms. Alkema’s returned to the Washington National Opera as La Contessa di Coigny in Andrea Chénier, Madeleine Lee in Democracy and Second Lady in Die Zauberflőte.

On the concert stage, Ms. Alkema has worked with such notable conductors as Emmanuel Villaume, Ricardo Frizza, Antony Walker, Joseph Colaneri, Heinze Fricka, Placido Domingo, Eugene Kohn, and Ann Manson. She has also worked with such distinguished stage directors as Marco Gandini, Mariusz Trelinski, Marthe Keller, Mark Adamo, John Pascoe, Chas Radar-Shieber, and Martha Domingo, among many others.

A frequent recitalist, Ms. Alkema is currently on the roster of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, which sponsored her New York recital debut as well as several other concerts, including a recital for their “On Wings of Song” series at the Big Arts Festival in Sanibel, Florida.

Ms. Alkema has been a member of several prestigious Young Artist Programs including the Chautauqua Opera, where she won their Studio and Apprentice Awards, the Music Academy of the West, under the tutelage of Marilyn Horne, and most recently the Santa Fe Opera, where she received their Campbell Memorial Scholarship Award for Singers. A winner of many prestigious vocal competitions, she recently won the Connecticut Opera Competition, Opera Index Competition for Singers, a Liederkranz Foundation Award, and was a finalist in this years Loren L. Zachary National Voice Competition.