Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives

Uzbekistani pianist Guzal Isametdinova has cultivated her passion for music from a very early age. She has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a prizewinner of competitions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and has appeared at venues including Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery of Art, and Wheeler Opera House. In the Fall 2025, she became a winner of Concerto Competition at University of Maryland and will perform with their Symphony Orchestra in the upcoming season.

As an opera rehearsal pianist, she played for productions such as La Bohéme, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Albert Herring, Aleko, Florencia en el Amazonas, Cosí fan tutte and Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and others. She performed a continuo part for operas such as The Marriage of Figaro, Cosí fan tutte and The Secret Gardener. She served as a music director for three newly commissioned chamber operas TWA by Justina Chen, The Fishwife by Ashi Day and The Alchemist by Christian De Gre Cardenas. Isametdinova was an opera pianist for Maryland Opera Studio for four years and collaborated with local opera companies such as InSeries and Bel Cantanti.

She participated in masterclasses for Leon Fleisher, Jonathan Feldman, Warren Jones, Martin Katz, and others. Guzal worked with conductors such as Marin Alsop, David Neely, Craig Kier, Joseph Mechavich, Mei-Ann Chen, and others. Among her summer programs were Aspen Music Festival, Napa Valley Festival, Opera in the Ozarks, Collaborative Piano Institute and Saluzzo Opera Academy in Italy. As an orchestra pianist, she can be heard on the recording of American music for Naxos label with a National Orchestra Institute under the baton of David Alan Miller.

Isametdinova holds a Master’s degree from Lynn University and is currently pursuing Doctoral Degree at the University of Maryland under the guidance of Rita Sloan. Starting this Fall, Isametdinova will join Arizona Opera as a Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist for their 2026/27 Season.