Lara Alami is a Detroit-based Mezzo-Soprano, Composer and Voice Teacher.

🎶 Meet Lara

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Lara Alami is a professional mezzo-soprano, composer, and dedicated voice teacher based in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. She is the owner of Alami Voice Studio, where she works with singers of all levels and voice types, helping them build healthy technique, artistic confidence, and expressive freedom.

Lara is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and serves as an adjudicator for NATS Student Auditions. She recently completed her role as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Voice Department at Oakland University, where she taught applied voice to undergraduate vocal performance majors. Her teaching experience also includes Oakland’s Community Music program, the Rochester Conservatory of Music, and vocal direction at Seaholm High School.

In addition to vocal technique and performance skills, Lara incorporates music theory for singers, ear training, and sight singing (solfège) into her lessons to help students become well-rounded, confident musicians. Her teaching is tailored to each student's goals, whether they are preparing for auditions, school programs, professional work, or personal enrichment.

As a performer, Lara sings both locally and nationally with acclaimed vocal ensembles, including the Grammy Award-winning Conspirare, Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Audivi, Alium Spiritum, Sounding Light, Vocal Arts Ensemble Cincinnati, and Choral Artists of Michigan. She is an annual soloist for Messiah and tours each summer with the professional quartet Alium Spiritum, based in Brownsville, Texas. She has also performed with the Oregon Bach Festival.

Her opera credits include Vera Boronel in The Consul with Opera MODO Detroit and outreach performances with Motor City Lyric Opera, bringing opera to students across Metro Detroit. Recent solo appearances include Duruflé’s Requiem, the Ethnic Soloist in Karl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater (singing in Aramaic), and a featured performance at the Global Ties Detroit Gala. She also performs seasonally with the Greenfield Singers at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village and sings regularly in churches across Metro Detroit, including with the Latin Mass Association.

Lara is also a composer, and her original choral work Use Your Voice for Kindness was recently premiered by both Audivi and the Community Chorus of Detroit as part of a concert celebrating Detroit-based composers.

She holds a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from Oakland University and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Arizona State University. Outside of music, Lara enjoys spending time with her husband, Faris, and their three children. She is also a visual artist and recently exhibited her oil paintings at the Spread Art Gallery in Detroit.