Soprano Julie Welch has performed at the regional level with the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma where she performed the role of Mulan in the brand-new stage production of Disney’s When You Wish: A Celebration of The Disney Song Book. She also originated and premiered the role of Julia Howe in the new opera A Porcelain Doll by James Vernon. She has sung the role of Belinda from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and performed the role of Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. She recently premiered a children’s opera with FBN Productions called The Red Song Bird by Zach Redler and Marquita Lister. She has been a Concerto Aria Competition winner at Oklahoma Baptist University and was a featured performer at the Wooloroc Outdoor Concert hosted by the OK Mozart Music Festival. With several years of dance training, she has been a featured dancer in Hello, Dolly! (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), The Addams Family (OBU Theater), and The Music Man (OBU Theater). Welch holds a Bachelor of Music in voice performance from Oklahoma Baptist University and a Master of Music in Performance and Pedagogy from Nazareth University. She has just finished all her coursework for a doctoral degree in voice performance at the University of South Carolina and is currently researching the impact of ballet on training singers. She is an adjunct voice instructor at The University of North Carolina Pembroke.