Samantha Goette

• Barbarina, Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera Columbus, 2025
• Susanna (cover), Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera Columbus, 2025
• Anna, A Nation of Others, University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, 2025
• Susanna, Le Nozze di Figaro, University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, 2024
• “It’s A Grand Night for Singing!”, soloist, University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, 2024
• Zerlina (cover), Don Giovanni with UKOT (2024)
• La Princesse, L’enfant et le Sortilèges at West Virginia University Opera, 2022
• Nightingale, L’enfant et le Sortilèges at West Virginia University Opera, 2022
• Considering Matthew Shepard, soloist, WVU Chamber Singers, 2022
• “Aspen Jubilee”, soloist, WVU Wind Symphony, 2023
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• National Society of Arts and Letters, Hazel Bush Voice Award, 2025
• NATS Mid-South Regionals, 2nd place, Advanced Women's Treble, 2025
• Martorella Voice Competition, Semifinalist, Voice, 2025
• NATS National Student Auditions, Semifinalist, Advanced Women's Treble, 2024
• UK Rosenstein Scholar, Voice Award, 2024
• NATS Mid-South Regionals, 1st place, Advanced Women's Treble, 2024
• NATS Kentucky Districts, 2nd place, Advanced Women's Treble, 2023
• All-Tech Scholarship Competition, Finalist, Graduate Voice Award, 2023
• WVU Christine Kefferstan Award, Voice Award, 2022
• NATS Tri-State Districts, 1st place, Upper Classical Treble, 2022
• CS Music Vocal Competition, Semifinalist, Classical University, 2022
• NATS Tri-State Districts, 1st place, Upper Classical Treble, 2021
• NATS National Student Auditions, Semifinalist, Lower Classical Treble, 2021
• NATS Eastern Regionals, 3rd place, Lower Classical Treble, 2021

Samantha Goette, soprano, hails from the mountains of Summersville, West Virginia. She recently made her professional debut as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Columbus (2025) and completed her Master of Music in Voice Performance at the University of Kentucky (2025). Samantha’s career goal is to one day perform opera internationally. After having a successful performance career, she hopes to indulge in her love for teaching and vocal pedagogy by being a voice professor at a university.