Tami Petty
Tami Petty
Adjunct Lecturer, Voice
- Website: tamipetty.com
Soprano Tami Petty is one of the winners of the Joy in Singing Award. She made her Merkin Hall solo debut in 2015 and has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with American Symphony Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic, and at Alice Tully Hall with Voices of Ascension, to which The New York Times hailed her "powerful soprano," and The Classical Music Network declared, "Such a beauty and purity of tone is so rare that I could only listen in ethereal pleasure."
Favorite oratorio and concert work have included Poulenc Gloria with Symphony of North Arkansas, Brahms German Requiem with Manchester Choral Society, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Altoona Symphony, Mozart Requiem with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Dvořák Te Deum and with St. George Choral Society, Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony with Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Dona Nobis Pacem with New Hampshire Music Festival, and Richard Strauss Vier Letzte Gesänge with St. Joseph Symphony.
She has performed soprano and mezzo-soprano operatic roles alike, such as the tile role in Suor Angelica with Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Leonore in Fidelio with Fort Collins Symphony, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Grace Church, Lady Billows in Albert Herring as a guest with Colorado State University, Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring with the Adler Fellows of San Francisco, Berta in The Barber of Seville with the Merola Opera Program, Cincinnati Opera, Central City Opera, and Bronx Opera, Mother and Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Chautauqua Opera Outreach, Flora Bervoix in La Traviata with Cincinnati Opera, Charlotte in Werther at Eastman Opera Theatre, Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore with Rochester Philharmonic, and Dido in Dido and Aeneas with Rochester Bach Festival.
Winner of career grants from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, Chautauqua Opera Guild, the Lotte Lenya Competition, and the prestigious Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera Center, Petty also received special recognition from the Marilyn Horne Foundation for her participation in the Music Academy of the West. She is the first recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from the Sorel Organization honoring women in music and received the Jessie Kneisel Prize in German Lieder while a student at the Eastman School of Music.
Petty holds degrees from The Eastman School of Music and Clayton State College. She is the director of music at Middle Church in the East Village and serves on the board of Melodious Accord. Currently she teaches on the faculties of William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and the esteemed faculty of Brooklyn College, which she joined in Fall 2018.
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