Mira Fu-En Huang

Taiwanese-American soprano Mira Fu-En Huang uses her voice to veer off the beaten path and bring lesser-told stories to the forefront. She has had the pleasure of singing not just in the languages of the western classical canon, but in Spanish, Korean, Irish, Czech, Bulgarian, Nisenan, and more. Her repertory sprawls across cultures and eras, from folk music to medieval motets and to the works of living composers.

Hailed for her “nuanced vocal splendor” and “mesmerizing style” (Upstage), Mira especially enjoys bringing life to underrepresented stories from early and modern eras. She has performed as Semele in Handel’s opera of the same name, Cupid in Blow’s Venus and Adonis, Night in Purcell’s Fairy Queen, Euridice in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, and Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She also enjoys regular collaborations with living composers across the globe.

A lover of community storytelling, Mira is an avid ensemble singer, having sung with The Thirteen, Chantry Early Music, Vox Musica, Il Dolce Suono, the choir for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and more. Her choral accolades include performing for the east-coast premiere of Ēriks Ešenvalds’ Sunset in My Hand at Carnegie Hall in 2017 and soloing at the Vatican in 2013. Mira has also enjoyed numerous soprano solos in choral masterworks, ranging from new music premieres to Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.

Mira obtained an M.M. in Historical Performance from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, studying under Ah Young Hong. She also received undergraduate degrees in Vocal Performance and Psychology, as well as a minor in English, from the University of California, Davis. She has been coached by a variety of early and new music specialists, including Quince Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, Dame Emma Kirkby, and Julianne Baird.

Selected honors Mira has won include the George Castelle Memorial Award (2022), the Fannie Copald Stein Memorial Award (2019), and the Carol Lee Coss Memorial Scholarship (2018). Additionally, her passions for writing and researching in the arts have made her a competent grants-writer who won the Peabody Institute’s $5,000 Launch Grant Award in 2021.

Currently, Mira works as a freelance soprano and full-time administrator in Maryland, and she enjoys researching, reading, and writing in numerous genres. In her free time, she can be found playing flute and viola da gamba, drinking excessive amounts of coffee, and writing in various book-filled locales.