Lara Alami performs both locally and nationally with professional vocal ensembles Conspirare, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Audivi, Alium Spiritum, Sounding Light, Vocal Arts Ensemble Cincinnati, Choral Artists of Michigan and Oregon Bach Festival. Recent opera performance highlights include performing the contralto role of Vera Boronel in Menotti’s The Consul with Opera MODO Detroit. She has also performed with Motor City Lyric Opera, sharing opera with students in Detroit and the surrounding area. Recent highlights as a soloist include the Durufle’ Requiem, Ethnic Soloist in Carl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater (singing in Aramaic), Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Detroit Concert Choir, and performing for the Global Ties Detroit Gala. Lara also performs seasonally with Greenfield Singers (Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI). She is soloist and section leader at First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, MI, and joins the St. John’s Episcopal Church of Detroit quartet for the summer season. A passionate teacher, Lara has worked as a vocal director with Seaholm High School, with private students at Oakland University’s Community Music program, and is thrilled to have joined the faculty at Rochester Conservatory of Music as a Voice Instructor. Lara holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Arizona State University and is in pursuit of her M.M. in Voice Performance at Wayne State University in Detroit. When she isn’t singing and teaching voice lessons, she is spending time with her family: husband Faris and their three children. Lara enjoys watercolor and oil painting, having most recently exhibited her work at the Spread Art Gallery in Detroit.