Michaela Kelly

Michaela Kelly, soprano, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music. While pursuing her doctorate, Michaela is on faculty as a visiting professor of voice at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Most recently, Michaela sang the role of Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites by Poulenc with the New England Conservatory Opera Theater. Michaela has sung scenes from Handel’s Xerxes and Orlando, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Lee Hoiby’s Summer and Smoke for NEC’s graduate opera scenes. She has performed on three Liederabend recitals at NEC and was an inaugural member of the art song intensive, “SongLab.” Previously, she performed as a soprano soloist in Die Schöpfung with NEC chorus and orchestra in Jordan Hall. Michaela was a musicianship teacher for the Handel and Haydn society youth choruses for two years while in Boston, MA. Michaela has performed with North Carolina Opera and Greensboro Opera Company. She has sung at Curtis Summer Festival and as an apprentice with Berkshire Choral Festival. Michaela has performed as a soloist in Mozart’s Vesperae solemn es de confessore, Bob Chilcott’s St. John Passion, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël. She is an active guest presenter of her evidence based workshop “Best Practices on Practice” at universities and public music programs across the country. Michaela holds a Bachelor’s of Music Education degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master’s of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from the New England Conservatory. Michaela is a student of Elizabeth Hynes. She is excited to be joining the Source Song Festival for the first time this summer!