Tiara Abraham

• COMPETETIONS - AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
• *National Society of Arts and Letters Winston Voice Scholarship - April 2023
• *Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Scholarship, Honorable Mention - Feb 2023
• *Department of Music Faculty Award, University of California, Davis - May 2022
• *Fannie Kopald Stein Memorial Award for Excellence in Musical Performance - May 2022
• *UC Davis Concerto Competition, Winner - April 2022
• *Sacramento Master Singers Scholarship for Young Choral Singers - 2022 & 2021
• *2022 YoungArts Award in Classical Voice - Dec 2021
• *Placer Pops Chorale Student Scholarship - High School - May 2021, May 2018,
• *Great Composers – 17th Century Vocal – 1st place (14 to 16 yr old) - May 2021
• *Great Composers – Best of Bach Vocal – 1st place (14 to 16 yr old) – Mar 2021
• *Sacramento Master Singers Scholarship – 1st place (14 to 16 yr old) - April 2021
• *ENKOR Intl. Music Competition - Vocal - Grand Prize (10 to 25 yr old) - Feb 2021
• *Giuseppe Sciacca Music Award, Vatican - Oct 2018
• *Grand Prize Virtuoso-Vocal - 1st prize - June 2017
• *California Music Educators Assoc.-State Vocal solo (college) - Gold Medal - May2016
• SOLO EXPERIENCE AND ROLES
• *Zerlina (upcoming) Don Giovanni - Greve Opera Academy and Music Festival 2023
• *Anne (upcoming) Juvenilia - Operation Opera Sacramento 2023
• *Siren #1 (upcoming) Legit Secrets - Operation Opera Sacramento 2023
• *Susanna (scene) Le Nozze di Figaro - IU Opera Workshop 2022
• *Twilights - UC Davis Symphony Orchestra 2022
• *Operatic Rising Stars - Camellia Symphony Orchestra 2022
• *Holiday Pops Concert - Placer Pops Chorale 2018
• MASTERCLASSES
• *Elizabeth Hynes - CS Music Convention - May 2023
• *Deborah Voigt - CS Music - April 2023
• *Ken Pereira - Jacobs School of Music, IU Bloomington - Nov 2022
• *Bradley Williams - CS Music Online Convention - 2021
• *Nancy Zylstra - Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute - 2020
• *Penelope Jensen - Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute - 2020
• *Molly Netter- Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute - 2020
• NATIONAL ANTHEM SOLOIST
• *UC Davis Commencement ceremonies - 2023, 2022
• *UC Davis Women's Basketball National Anthem - 2022
• *UC Davis Men's Basketball National Anthem - 2022
• *Stanford Univ. National Anthem - April 2019, Feb 2019,
• *San Francisco Giants National Anthem - Aug 2019, April 2019
• *Sacramento River Cats Baseball National Anthem - July 2018
• *Phi Theta Kappa 100th Convention, Kansas City, MO - National Anthem - April 2018
• *Phi Theta Kappa 99th Convention, Nashville, TN - National Anthem - April 2017

Tiara Abraham is a 17-year-old soprano. In Fall 2023, she will be a second year master’s student majoring in vocal performance at Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, where she studies voice with Patricia Stiles. She began her classical voice training at 7-years-old with her first voice teacher, Kate Murphy, and trained for 5 years with her. In Fall 2020, as the youngest University Regents Scholar, 14-year-old Tiara transferred to University of California Davis, as a 3rd year undergrad. She graduated in 2022 with summa cum laude in Bachelor of Arts in Music (vocal performance).

Tiara has sung with several choirs including the Jacobs School of Music's University Singers at Indiana University, UC Davis University Chorus, UC Davis Chamber Singers, Schola Cantorum of Sacred Heart Church, Sacramento and the DC-based choir, The Washington Chorus. She is a choral scholar at the First Christian Church, Bloomington. She has been a soloist in these choirs. Her most memorable performances include singing as a 10-year-old soloist at the Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall, NYC, singing as a 12-year-old soloist at Vatican, Musikverein Austria, and performing the National Anthem twice for San Francisco Giants for about 30,000 people as a 13-year-old. In addition to being the winner of the 2022 UC Davis Concerto Competition, Tiara has won several national and international vocal competitions. She made her orchestral debut in 2022 under the baton of Maestro Christian Baldini with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra’s “Operatic Rising Stars” concert.

Apart from her inborn vocal talents, Tiara plays the piano and is also learning the violin.

Though she is recognized as a soprano prodigy and is a member of the high IQ society, Mensa, Tiara credits her family for the support she gets in her musical and educational journey. Her dream is to become a world famous singer and recording artist and help others with philanthropy. Tiara’s wish is to bring joy to people's lives with her voice and singing.

Tiara can be reached via her social media handle @sopranotiara on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for performance requests and recording projects.