By Fran Laniado On July 10, 2013, at a White House Ceremony, President Barack Obama presented soprano, Renee Fleming with America’s highest honor for an individual artist; the National Medal of Arts. This certainly wasn’t the first award that Fleming has received (Fleming is a four-time Grammy winner, who has also been awarded Fulbright Lifetime…

By Natasha Barbieri What inspired you to pursue Celtic music? When I was 12 one of my voice teachers gave me an Irish song to learn (My Lagan Love) and taught me how to sing it in the Celtic style. She had Scottish background and thought it would suit me because of my Welsh/Irish background.…

Natasha Barbieri: Congratulations on your recent graduation from the Royal College of Music! You’ve been singing professionally and recording albums for a few years now, why was it so important for you to continue formal music training? Laura Wright: Thank you! As a singer you are constantly learning, your voice changes from year to year…

By Chantelle Constable Hi Anna, thanks for taking the time to let us get to know you better. Let’s start at the very beginning… What musical training did you have growing up, and at what point did you decide that you wanted to make a career of singing? I started singing publicly from the age…

By Don McCullen Don: What performance have you enjoyed the most so far in your career?  Anastasia: I would have to say (I have 2) at the EAA in front of the B-29 “FIFI”. Everything imaginable went wrong. There was no ‘mini-stage’ set up as they said there would be, no microphone, no camera-man, no…