Ms. Shabnam Abedi

A highly sought after soprano and recent addition to The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Shabnam Abedi received her Master’s Degree from Juilliard in Jazz Studies making her Juilliard’s first South-Asian American jazz voice graduate. A versatile artist with a reputation for high-level music making in a wide variety of genres, Shabnam also studied opera and music education at Mason Gross School of the Arts. Having played and sung Indian Classical Music since young, Shabnam’s first album “Amar Bijon Ghore” was released to wide acclaim in South Asia. Shabnam was recognized by the New York Times for her solo in Trinity’s Handel’s Messiah this year, as well as a soloist in Considering Matthew Shepard production, and sang at the New York premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light at the Park Avenue Armory. She was one of the six founding members of Voces8 Foundation’s treble ensemble Lyyra, and her debut jazz album Love Shadows is set to release this year.