Michelle A. Konow, dramatic soprano, comes to The School of Performing Arts with a vast amount of performance and teaching experience.  She studied and degreed in education and vocal performance at Roosevelt University Chicago Musical College,
Indiana University, Indiana State University and Brigham Young University.  Her performance career has taken her across the United State to various opera houses, symphony halls, and theater.  She has sung at Lyric Opera of Chicago for the past 11 years. She has performed under the baton of some of the greatest maestri in the world including Christian Telemann, Bruno Bartolletti, Paul Salamonovich, and Sir Andrew Davis. A small sample of her vast role experience includes such memorable characters as Rosalinda- DIE FLEDERMAUS, Countess- THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and Liu-TURANDOT. Michelle has been heard in Rossini’s STABAT MATER, Rutter’s REQUIEM, Schubert’s MASS in B, Handel’s MESSIAH and CREATION, Bernstein’s CHITCHESTER PSALMS, and Mozart’s REQUIEM.  Starting her professional career at a young age, Michelle is no stranger to the theatre stage.  She has performed numerous roles from Agnes Gooch in MAME to Magda in I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY.

Michelle has a passion for teaching.  She has taught in the Chicagoland area for the past 17 years.  Many of her students have performed at Walt Disney World, with some of the finest symphony orchestras and opera companies in the world and toured with Broadway theatre companies. Her studio is well represented in the local high schools small ensembles IMEA & ALL STATE participants and in the ILLINOIS ALL STATE MUSICAL cast.  Michelle expands her teaching by conducting masterclasses and adjudicating in the Midwest on all levels of education.