The American soprano, Sophia Barsanti, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Psychology and Music (2015-2019). She played the role of Oberto in George Frideric Handel's Alcina (November 2018) and gave a senior recital featuring entirely women composers such as Libby Larsen, Clara Schumann, and Pauline Viardot. She performs research in a cognitive psychology lab studying the process of pronoun comprehension. With the goal of earning her Ph.D. in clinical psychology to improve the well-being of children and adolescents with externalizing disorders, she is currently applying to clinical research positions (as of summer 2019). |