Soprano Anush Avetisyan, "who - at age 21 - proved to be a gifted singer and interpreter beyond her years"- (German World Magazine), currently based in New York City just finished a summer at Jennifer Rowley’s Aria Bootcamp. She is preparing the roles of Tatyana and Micaela to perform with the Eurasia festival this year.  She is a graduate of Yale University Academy of Vocal Arts, and UCLA with a double major in Vocal Performance and Music Education. There she’s performed Musetta, Manon, Micaela Donna Elvira, Gretel, Pamina, Fiordiligi, Eurydice and Poppea to name a few. 

                Ms. Avetisyan has performed with Opera Theater of St. Louis where she received the Richard Gaddess award, Wolf Trap Studio Young Artist, Pittsburg Festival Opera and Oberlin in Italy, Mediterranean Opera studio, and Music Academy of the West. 

She sang Gretel with the Music Academy of the West and was a Fast Pitch Awardee for her mission to promote Armenian Classical music in the classical cannon and was a Digital Finalist for her music video of Armenian Folk repertoire by Komitas Vartapet.

                Ms. Avetisyan is a First prize winner in the Inaugural Deborah Voigt Vero Beach International competition, second place in the Mario Lanza Competition, First Place in the Palm Springs Opera Guild competition, First Place in the Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition, and Fourth Place in the Loren L. Zachary Society Competition and most recently First Prize in the Music International Grand Prix. 

                 She is a 2021 American Prize recipient for her role as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Bianca in A Florentine Tragedy with the Livermore Valley Opera. She reprised the role she created as Loeila in David Arkenstone’s and Scott Lord’s modern epic contemporary opera The Fall of Atlantis. Next, Ms. Avetisyan debuts with the National Sawdust in New York to sing selections by composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh in excerpts from “We the Innumberable”. Her Tosca role debut with Heartbeat opera in April of 2023 was wildly successful and was met with rave review that can be found on Ms. Avetisyan’s website. It is a new role favorite role in Ms. Avetisyan’s repertoire.