Melissa Lubecke Sarabia, Soprano, completed her undergraduate musical studies at Baylor University in 2013, received her Masters in Vocal Performance from the University of Texas San Antonio in 2018, and completed her DMA at The University of Colorado Boulder in 2024. Dr. Lubecke Sarabia was chosen as the winner of UTSA’s Concerto and Aria competition in the spring of 2017, receiving the chance to sing with the UTSA orchestra in concert. In the summer of 2016 she spent six weeks in Austria, performing at sacred music concerts and Spanish music concerts with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz. Her past roles include Mlle. Silberklang in Der Schauspieldirektor, 2nd Lady in Dido and Aeneas, Knitter #2 in A Game of Chance, and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus. Most recently she has performed as Lady with a Cake Box in Postcard to Morocco, Mimí in La Bohème, and Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff with Eklund Opera. In 2021 Dr. Lubecke Sarabia co-founded The Canciones Project, a non-profit corporation in Texas which seeks to champion Latin American music in the American musical institution and emphasize bel canto singing technique in a way which embraces the tenets of culturally responsive pedagogy.