Krannert Debut Artist Competition
First Runner Up

Ms. Lituma won first runner-up in the Krannert Debut Artist Competition. As a part of the competition, she prepared a full-length recital featuring the vocal works of Respighi, Verdi, Debussy, Bizet, Dvorák, and de Falla.
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Review of John Harbison's Symphony No. 5
Mezzo-Soprano Soloist

"Harbison for this poem gave warmer, more passionate lines to be sung, and Lituma, singing with rich lush tone, delivered this music with appealing conviction. In the Rilke poem setting, the voices of Gunn and Lituma overlapped each other strikingly, and the singing of the splendid, if baffling, Rilke Sonnet made for an impressive conclusion...The applause at the end of the Harbison symphony was very strong. Many stood, and the composer rose to acknowledge this positive reaction."

The American Prize in Vocal Performance
Third Place​

Ms. Lituma won Third Place at the 2021 American Prize Competition in Vocal Performance in the women in art song & oratorio category. She is honored to be one of the recipients of the Friedrich and Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards.

CS Music: Vocal Competition
Third Place​

Ms. Lituma won Third Place at the national 2020 Online CS Music Vocal Competition. She was adjudicated by some of the biggest names in the industry including Denyce Graves, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn, and Robert Ainsley. At the final awards ceremony, she was praised by Frederica von Stade for singing with "beautiful colors and a clear lovely sound."

News Gazette: John Frayne: Solid Reviews for 'The Rape of Lucretia'
Lucretia in Britten's Rape of Lucretia​

"The major action of the opera, the assault, both emotional and violent, of Tarquinius upon the virtuous Lucretia generated sweeping emotive power in the dedicated singing of Lituma and Cuva. The end of this work gave ample opportunity for Lituma, in a scene in which Lucretia prepares for suicide, and her husband, Collatinus, sung by Salazar, to express feelings evoking pity for the tragic loss."

Thereza Named Winner of 2017 SAI Summer Music Scholarship
PAN PIPES Fall 2017: Vol 110 No. 1 "The Awards Edition"

​Thereza Lituma, of the Sigma Delta Chapter, has been named the winner of the Sigma Alpha Iota Summer Music Scholarship to support her operatic studies abroad for her time in the Scuola Italia Opera Program for Young Opera Singers where she performed scenes as Cornelia/Giulio Cesare, Quickly/Falstaff, Zita/Gianni Schicchi and Alisa/Lucia di Lammermoor.