Megan Ortman (she/her) is thrilled to join the CCW team. A DC-based soprano and scholar, she brings expertise in arts administration, classroom management, and education. 

A native Texan, she 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. Megan has sung in operas and choral ensembles around the world, with locations including Vienna (Austria), London (United Kingdom), Winter Harbor (Maine), Alexandria (Virginia), and others. 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, Megan 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.