Samantha Ralston

• Schmidt Vocal Music Competition, GA top-ten finalist, 2025
• Alternate for GA Governor’s Honors Program in Vocal Music, 2024
• GMEA All-State Choir, 2022, 2023, 2024 ,2025
• Musical Theatre Performer of the Year (DSA), 2025
• Theater Performance “Rising Star” Award for Excellence (DSA), 2024
• Vocal Music “Rising Star” Award for Excellence (DSA), 2023
• All-Star Cast award for "Songs for a New World" at GA High School Association District One-Act competition, 2023

Samantha Ralston discovered her love for classical singing when she joined the Georgia Girl Choir at the age of eight. Since then, she has developed this passion through work with community and school choirs, District Honors and All-State choirs, and summer music institutes, including Brevard, as well as universities in the southeast. She currently studies privately with Kathryn Hartgrove in Atlanta, GA.

A senior at DeKalb School of the Arts, Samantha sings with the DSA Chorale (section leader) and Treble Select ensembles, as well as the Decatur Avondale Children's Choir and her church choir. Recent theatre credits include Lydia in "Beetlejuice, Jr." (DSA), Katherine in "Freaky Friday the Musical" (DSA), Audrey II in "Little Shop of Horrors" (DSA), Ensemble in "Songs for a New World" (DSA), Ensemble in "The Wiz" (DSA), and Malcolm in "Macbeth" (Atlanta Shakespeare Teen Intensive).