Sarah Lysiak

Director of Education

Central Florida Vocal Arts

Sarah Lysiak is an established voice teacher and soprano in the Greater Orlando area, and serves as Director of Education for Central Florida Vocal Arts. Sarah's private voice studio serves advanced high school through professional level singers. She is also proud to serve as a Teaching Artist through Arts 1:1, a grant-funded virtual teaching platform serving Title I status students in OCPS.Prior to relocating to Orlando in ‘21, Sarah taught voice in Houston, TX as an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Lone Star College-Montgomery as well as instructing a private studio of 40+ students. Sarah also served as Vice President of Workshops for Greater Houston NATS and was actively involved in the highly competitive TMEA All State Choir audition process, frequently coaching and adjudicating students within the organization.As a lyric soprano, Sarah’s favorite operatic engagements have included the roles of Newswoman in Portrait TV Man, Mimí in La Bohème, Marianne in Der Rosenkavalier, Alice in Falstaff, Matilde in Il Postino, First Lady in The Magic Flute, La Baronne in La Vie Parisienne, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, and Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte. Sarah has been a featured soloist in concert performances of Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Mozart’s Great Mass in C, and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Sarah holds a Master's degree in Vocal Performance from the acclaimed opera program at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, and received her undergraduate training from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Sarah has sung with notable organizations such as the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, Piedmont Opera, Moores Opera Center, Opera in the Ozarks, Houston Ballet, and seven seasons with Houston Grand Opera.