Laurie DiSabatino, soprano, graduated from Central Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree in music where she received both voice and piano scholarships. During college, she toured throughout central Europe as a soloist and chamber group singer. As a featured soloist at CMU, she has performed Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Honneger’s King David. After winning CMU’s concerto competition, she had the opportunity to perform arias from Donizetti’s Anna Bolena with the university’s orchestra. Laurie also won the Cedric C. Colness Vocal Competition. After graduation, DiSabatino moved to Philadelphia to perform with the Little Lyric Opera Theatre where she debuted as Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme. Since returning to Flint, she has performed locally with many organizations including the St. Cecilia Society and the Flint Symphony Chorus. Laurie has also performed in multiple Michigan Opera Theatre productions including Verdi’s Nabucco and Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Currently, she teaches voice at FIM’s Flint School of Performing Arts and serves as the Music Director at Kirkridge Presbyterian Church in Grand Blanc.