Melissa is a senior at LIU Post studying Vocal Performance. She has been taking vocal lessons for the past ten years. She is a dedicated student and plans on becoming a professional performer. She is in an Opera Scenes group on campus that her and her fellow students brought together on their own. She has also taken Alexander Technique for three semesters. Over the summer she was in a program in Canada called “A Midsummer Music Dream,” where she took part in master classes and performed multiple times. She plans on going away to Graduate School in the fall of 2014, focusing on Indiana U.