Praised for her “commanding stage presence, strikingly rich voice and an innate sense of comedic timing” (Operawire) and her “superb technique” (The Berkeley Daily Planet) Allison Gish is a contralto based in New York. She is the 1st Place winner of the 2021 Rochester International Vocal Competition. This spring, she makes her Opera Grand Rapids debut in Ricky Ian Gordon's Tibetan Book of the Dead and her Opera on the James debut as La Zia Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Equally at home as a choral artist, Allison recently joined the New York Philharmonic Chorus in their debut tour to Shanghai, China to premiere and create the Deutche Grammophon recording of Aaron Zigman's Emigre and will join the chorus once again for Emigre’s New York premiere at Lincoln Center.

Last season, she appeared as Madame de Croissy in Dialogues of the Carmelites (Bronx Opera), Marjorie in the world premiere of Fizz & Ginger (Curiosity Cabinet), Fricka in Die Walkure (Trilogy Opera), Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos (BARN Opera), and as alto soloist in Handel's Messiah with Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio with Hudson Chorale. Other recent roles include Grimgerde in Die Walküre with TUNDI Productions, Mrs. Noye in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde (Church of the Transfiguration NYC), Leonora Goosling in Felix Jarrar’s Mother Goose, Athena in Kaley Lane Eaton's Psychographics, Apollo in Handel's Terpsicore (American Bach Soloists Academy), Lucia in La gazza ladra (Teatro Nuovo), The Mother in The Consul (Bronx Opera), Lisotta in Salieri's La cifra (dell'Arte Opera Ensemble), Giunone in Cavalli's La Calisto (dell'Arte Opera Ensemble) and Lucretia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia (New Camerata Opera), a performance deemed a “knockout” (Reaction, Operawire).