{"id":45442,"date":"2020-04-03T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T19:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=45442"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:45:10","slug":"kiara-kiah-takes-third-on-to-national-singing-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/kiara-kiah-takes-third-on-to-national-singing-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiara Kiah takes third, on to national singing competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eastern Mennonite University soprano <strong>Kiara Kiah<\/strong> recently placed third in her division at the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Region National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) audition \u2013 she now advances on to national preliminaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiah competed virtually by sending in audition videos, as the in-person competition in South Carolina was cancelled due to COVID-19. You can listen to audio from one of her audition tapes below \u2013 &#8220;Somehow I Never Could Believe&#8221; \u2013 a synthesis of traditional opera and American musical theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/04\/Weill-Somehow-I-Never-Could-Believe.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Kiara Kiah singing &#8220;Somehow I Never Could Believe&#8221; from <em>Street Scene <\/em>by Kurt Weill, the composer&#8217;s seminal American opera. She is accompanied by Ryan Tusing on piano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be more excited for Kiara, who is a remarkable human being with a terrific soprano voice; however, you&#8217;d never know it \u2013 except to hear her sing \u2013 given her unassuming, down-to-earth demeanor,&#8221; said <strong>Professor James Richardson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It feels amazing to know I\u2019ve made it this far, being out of the &#8216;competition game&#8217; for a while,&#8221; Kiah said. &#8220;I\u2019ve proved to myself that you don\u2019t need to attend the most expensive music conservatory to be successful &#8230; as an African American female in opera-classic singing, it feels amazing to represent my people and put us on the map.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This win, which advances Kiara to the national student auditions, puts her in the upper echelon of collegiately trained vocalists between here and the west coast \u2013 many of them from the most elite schools and conservatories,&#8221; said Richardson.&nbsp;&#8220;Furthermore, this feat speaks to her and her peers&#8217; (with whom she competed) fortitude, given the challenges posed by the current, COVID-19 landscape. 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