Shari Eve Feldman

Shari Eve Feldman, soprano, is an active singer and teaching-artist in the DMV area. She is passionate about all things musical, including chamber music literature, avant garde performance practice, and contemporary song literature. She has sung in projects ranging from large choral, orchestral, and operatic works to solo recitals with such organizations as the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the University of Delaware Master Players Concert Series , Baltimore Concert Opera, Opera Delaware, Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Choir School of Delaware, the  Washington Piano Society, New Music Delaware Festival, The Arts Club of Washington, TEMPO New Music Ensemble, StageFree in D.C., and the University of Maryland Choir in collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Feldman performed as part of a Young Artist MN Duo at the Source Song Festival in Minneapolis, MN from 2015-2019 and loves collaborating with composers to promote and perform new compositions. She is thrilled to return to the vibrant art song community at Source Song Festival! 

Ms. Feldman is a proud “Blue Hen,” having graduated from the University of Delaware with Bachelor of Arts in Music and Master’s in Music degrees in 2010 and 2012, respectively. From 2012-2018, Ms. Feldman served as Academic Advisor and Recruitment and Scholarship Coordinator for the UD School of Music and volunteered for the Choir School of Delaware, a nonprofit after-school music and mentoring program for children, ages 7-17, residing in Wilmington, DE. In 2015 she joined the Board of Directors, and in FY2018, took on the role of Treasurer. 

Ms. Feldman currently teaches song literature, opera history, and style analysis classes through Prince George’s Community College in Largo, MD, teaches private voice lessons for the School of Music at the University of Maryland, and is a Graduate Assistant for the UMD Honors College, where she supports the Honors Humanities Living Learning Program and its curriculum development. Her work at the University of Maryland is concurrent with her ongoing candidacy for the Doctorate in Musical Arts degree, where she studies with mezzo-soprano Delores Ziegler. Her dissertation research focuses on the importance of a woman’s experience as authentic storytellers through contemporary song settings of poetic works by Emily Dickinson and Amy Lowell.

For her teaching in the Voice Division, she was recognized by the UMD Graduate School with an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2020-21 and is the 2022 winner of the University of Maryland’s Three Minute Thesis competition, which she will present at the international “3MT” competition this fall. Ms. Feldman is a recipient of a TIAA Fellowship through the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and Do Good Institute, where she graduated from the Certificate in Nonprofit Management program in 2021 and in June 2022, she received an M-Cubator grant from the University of Maryland School of Music for her song cycle commission (Songs of A Curly Girl) involving her student's original poetry and journey to self-love.