Jessica Tranzillo, soprano, has gained critical acclaim in the classical concert field in performances of opera and early music in recent years.  She has appeared with ARTEK in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Orfeo, and L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Purcell’s Fairy Queen, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. John’s Passion and Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem, and Handel’s Dixit Dominus.  She has toured with ARTEK to the Boston Early Music Festival, receiving rave reviews, and in Europe, where she sang in early music festivals in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the Netherlands.  She can be heard on ARTEK’s acclaimed CD recordings of Monteverdi’s opera, Orfeo, Monteverdi: Madrigals Book 5, and I Don’t Want to Love and also on Organ Music of Scheidemann on which she sings the introductory chants.  Ms. Tranzillo has been a frequent soloist with the Long Island Choral Society and Orchestra, where she has been the soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria, Handel’s Samson, Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and most recently the Dvorak Stabat Mater.