Tami Petty

Tami Petty made her Lincoln Center debut in 2010 in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle with the Voices of Ascension at Alice Tully Hall. The New York Times praised Petty’s “powerful soprano,” and Classical Music Network declared, “Such a beauty and purity of tone is so rare that I could only listen in ethereal pleasure.” She is the 2014 Award Recipient of the Joy in Singing Prize. New York City performances include Pani Paskova in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen at Avery Fisher Hall with New York Philharmonic, Schmidt’s Notre Dame at Carnegie Hall with American Symphony Orchestra, and Steven Sametz’s Carmina Amoris at Carnegie Hall.

Highlights from past seasons include Woglinde in the final scene from Wagner’s Das Rheingold  with American Symphony Orchestra at the Bard Summerscape Festival, the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio with Opera Fort Collins, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with Buffalo Philharmonic, Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with Manchester Choral Society, and the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss with the symphonies of Fort Collins and Saint Joseph Symphony. A recitalist of the first rank, she has performed locally with Brooklyn Art Song Society, 5BMF, Caritas for St. Ignatius Loyola, Joy in Singing, and New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA).

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 has 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 she received the Jessie Kneisel Prize in German Lieder while a student at the Eastman School of Music.

Ms Petty joined Manhattan School of Music as Adjunct faculty in 2025, and she is the 2025–2026 Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Bard College. She holds graduate degrees from Eastman School of Music in Vocal Performance and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Clayton State College in Georgia. Please visit www.TamiPetty.com for more information