ABOUT THE ARTIST Tara Lake, soprano Tara Lake is a graduating student in the Master of Music in Vocal Arts Program at West Chester University. She is an alumna of the New York University Classical Voice Intensive, where her teacher was Harolyn Blackwell, and the Juilliard School Evening Division Vocal Performance Seminar, where she sang the role of La Suora Zelatrice in Sour Angelica. Tara has been a member of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Community Women’s Choir, the Holiday Pops Chorus of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Classical Roots Choir of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Wendell P. Whalum Community Chorus (Morehouse College). As a student in the West Chester University Wells School of Music, Tara was a Vocal Honors Recital performer in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Ms. Lake performed in Masterclasses conducted by Dr. Stephen Lancaster (Notre Dame University) Dr. Everett McCorvey (University of Kentucky, American Spiritual Ensemble), and Prof. Lorna MacDonald (University of Toronto). In 2023, she was a West Chester University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Finalist. The same year, Tara served as Production Assistant and Stage Manager for the West Chester University Opera Theatre production of Beauty and the Beast and authored a production educator’s guide for teachers in greater Philadelphia. Tara has remained active in the world of theatre and was awarded the Margaret W. Wong Hope Award for her performance of I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of Newfangled Black Woman at the 2023 Borderlight Fringe Festival in Cleveland, OH. Earlier this year, she joined the 2024 production of Ruth and the Green Book in the role of Ruth at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA. For two seasons, (2022-2024), Ms. Lake served as Staff Soprano and Soloist at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, Kennett Square. Since 2022, Tara has served as a vocalist and worship leader for Epic Church Center City at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. Tara is a student of Dr. Nicholas Provenzale. Sinae Yun, piano Sinae Lee is an accomplished pianist who earned her undergraduate degree from Keimyung University in South Korea and pursued advanced studies at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland, where she received a Master of Music degree. Additionally, she completed coursework in Musicology at Keimyung University and participated in a conducting seminar at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Mrs. Lee has an extensive performance background, having given numerous solo recitals and collaborated with various esteemed ensembles across Poland, Italy, England, Germany, South Korea, and the United States. Her notable performances include engagements with the Ukraine Prokofiev Philharmonic Orchestra and the Daegu Symphony Orchestra, as well as appearances at the Ulsan Composers Association Concert, Eastern Asia International Composer Concert, and Daegu International New Media Art Festival. Her work has been featured on South Korean television, including KBS Saturday Concerts and MBC Thursday Concerts.
Currently, Ms. Lee serves as the Director at La Bella Music Academy, is the organist and pianist at Concord Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, DE, and holds positions as an Adjunct Faculty at Temple University and staff accompanist at West Chester University.