Kerrigan Bigelow is a soprano based in New York City currently pursuing her Masters of Vocal Performance at the Juilliard School. Bigelow recently completed her Bachelors of Music at the same institution under the tutelage of Amy Burton and Brian Zeger. 

While at Juilliard, Bigelow has enjoyed a wide variety of performance opportunities singing both traditional and contemporary opera and art song. Highlights from previous seasons include debuting as Mariuccia in I Due Timidi, covering Aldimira in Erismena, Flora in The Turn of the Screw, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. 

An avid recitalist, Bigelow has given many recitals all over the NorthEast and New York City including Alice Tully Hall. In 2024, she and her duo partner, Amber Scherer, were chosen as the Vocal Arts Honor Recital winners and performed a program at Merkin Hall about history’s silenced women. 

The duo has collaborated extensively together as the New Music Fellows at Songfest and Fellowship recipients of the Federation of the Art Song. This coming season, they will present recitals through City Lyric Opera, featuring a commissioned pocket opera by Justine F. Chen. Later in the season, they will present La voix humaine, a one woman opera, by Poulenc. 

Bigelow has established herself as a rising figure in the new music scene, having performed in many productions and worked with composers in recent seasons. In a collaboration between Juilliard and Carnegie Hall, she performed Saariaho’s From The Grammar of Dreams in The New Series: The Mad King and Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice. Later in the season, she joined The New Series again for a performance of Pierrot Lunaire in celebration of the composer’s 150th birthday. Most recently, Bigelow covered the roles of Leona and Leona’s Mother in Cerrone’s In A Grove as part of the Prototype Festival. 

In competition, Bigelow was a New England Region Finalist of the Laffont Competition, a grant recipient of the Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition, and an encouragement award winner at Opera Index.

Summer 2025 saw Bigelow in France singing as part of Classic Lyric Art’s festival. Immediately following, she was a Vocal Fellow at Tanglewood, performing the role of La princesse in Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges among other concerts. 

Upcoming, Bigelow will perform the role of Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in Juilliard’s fall opera. She will also continue to participate as part of the Shared Voices Cohort with The Denyce Graves Foundation. 

Bigelow is the proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship at Juilliard.