Operatic soprano, Sabina Balsamo is co-founder of the Sohap Ensemble. With a passion for creation and performance of new music and opera, Balsamo created and performed in monthly online concerts with an amazing team of Colorado musicians. She directed Green Sneakers, a one-man-opera by Ricky Ian Gordon, performed by baritone, John Seesholtz. After winning a grant from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Entrepreneurship Center for Musicians that allowed the ensemble to commission two new pieces for soprano and cello, Balsamo launched a School Program through Sohap to teach local music students about the music Sohap performs.

Apart from Sohap Ensemble, Balsamo has premiered the role of Anne in Verlorene Heimat by Dawn Sonntag in the Cleveland Opera Theater's NOW Festival in 2018. She has sung several roles in new opera workshops including Vicky Hobson in Tom Cipullo's opera, Hobson's Choice with CU NOW; Angustias in Griffin Candey's opera, The House of Bernarda Alba, which she will be premiering in 2022 with the Cleveland Opera Theater. In 2019, she presented her libretto for the one-act opera, The Woman in the Wall. This new opera is in its first year of a three-year long workshop with music by Griffin Candey with the Cleveland Opera Theater.

Other performance credits include: La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Steamboat; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Boulder Opera; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Clara in It's a Wonderful Life, Governess in The Turn of the Screw, and Maria in West Side Story with the Eklund Opera; Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Elsie in The Yeomen of The Guard, and Rose in Ruddigore with the Pittsburgh Savoyards; Fredrika in A Little Night Music and Micky in Damn Yankees with Pittsburgh Festival Opera; Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Polly in The Threepenny Opera and Pitti-Sing in The Mikado with the Baldwin Wallace Opera.

In 2018, Balsamo won first place in the Honors Competition at CU Boulder and in 2019, she sang Vier Lieder, Op. 27 by Richard Strauss with the University Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in CU NOW; Accademia Vocale Lorenzo Malfatti Vocal Training Intensive in Lucca, Italy; Pittsburgh Festival Opera; Harrower Summer Opera Workshop; and Resonanz Opera in Cleveland, Ohio.

She received her B.M. in Vocal Performance at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music and her M.M. in Vocal Performance at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Balsamo has a private studio online and in person, and has experience teaching classrooms with voice students of all ages.

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