Jean Broekhuizen

A frequent contest winner, Jean Broekhuizen was a National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in New York in 2005, and won the Wisconsin district and has been an Upper Midwest Regional Finalist in that same competition three years in a row (2004-2006).  She was also presented with the Outstanding Mezzo Soprano Award at the Upper Midwest Regionals of the Met Auditions in 2005.  In the spring of 2007, Jean was the recipient of a Study Grant by the Metropolitan Opera National Council Education Fund. Miss Broekhuizen has also been a Semifinalist in the Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition (2007), and a finalist in both the Liederkranz Competition (2004), and the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation Competition for Voice (2005). In 2005, Jean was the recipient of a gr