Julie-Michelle Manohar
Julie-Michelle Manohar (soprano) is a classical and jazz vocalist. She completed her undergraduate studies and Graduate Diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Tyler Duncan and Dina Kuznetsova. She is embarking on her Master’s journey at Mannes with Laquita Mitchell. Manohar was the soprano fellow for the 2024 Emmanuel Music Bach Institute. She recently sang in "Orpheus before Gluck" and in Michel de La Barre’s newly discovered “La Sculpture” from Le Triomphe des arts with CWRU HPP. Manohar has performed in masterclasses led by Dame Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Nicholas Phan, James Taylor, and Daniel Taylor. She loves to blend activism into her concert programming to raise consciousness of issues that plague society, hoping audiences will leave ruminating on how to combat them.