Neva Pilgrim (November 21, 1938 – January 21, 2024) was an American soprano known for her work in the performance of contemporary classical music.
She graduated magna cum laude from Hamline University, received a Master of Music degree from Yale University, and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music on a Ditson Fellowship.
[1] She worked closely with many composers, including Pierre Boulez, Lukas Foss, Luciano Berio, George Rochberg, R. Murray Schafer, Ralph Shapey, Richard Wernick, Luigi Dallapiccola, Gunther Schuller, and Steven Stucky.
She released over 20 recordings and was one of the three founding members of the Society for New Music, which was established in Syracuse, New York in 1971.
She also received a Certificate of Merit for her significant contribution to the field of music from the Yale School of Music, an outstanding alumni award from Hamline University, and the Laurel Leaf Award from the American Composers Alliance (1994).