Lara Alami performs both locally and nationally with professional vocal ensembles Audivi, Alium Spiritum, Conspirare, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Sounding Light, Vocal Arts Ensemble Cincinnati, Choral Artists of Michigan. She has also performed with Oregon Bach Festival. Recent opera performance highlights include performing the contralto role of Vera Boronel in Menotti’s The Consul with Opera MODO Detroit. She has also performed with Motor City Lyric Opera, sharing opera with students in Detroit and the surrounding area. Recent highlights as a soloist include Messiah, Durufle’s Requiem, Ethnic Soloist in Carl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater (singing in Aramaic), and performing for the Global Ties Detroit Gala. Lara also performs seasonally with Greenfield Singers (Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI). She is a soloist and alto ensemble singer with churches across Metro Detroit, including the Latin Mass Association. A passionate teacher, Lara has worked as a vocal director with Seaholm High School, with private students at Oakland University’s Community Music program, Rochester Conservatory of Music, and is thrilled to now work with students as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Oakland University beginning in the fall of 2024, in the Voice Department. Lara holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Arizona State University. She is pursuing her M.M. in Voice Performance at Oakland University University in Rochester Hills, MI, with expected graduation in the Winter of 2025. When she isn’t singing and teaching voice lessons, she is spending time with her family: her husband, Faris, and their three children. Lara enjoys drawing and oil painting, and she recently exhibited her work at the Spread Art Gallery in Detroit.