Kayla Harriott

Coloratura Soprano, Kayla Harriott, is a proud Trinidadian & Venezuelan American from Queens, New York. Praised for her “beautiful expression and brilliant, well-placed vocalism”, she won the 2025 Trotter Grant Competition for Emerging Opera Singers from The Opera Guild for Atlanta. She also received 1st Place in the Georgia State Music Competition, Rome Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Concerto Competition and was a two-time Finalist of the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition in San Francisco, California.

Making her Cambridge Symphony Orchestra debut, her previous featured performances include: Micaela in Carmen with West Virginia Symphony, Soloist in Carmina Burana and Soloist in Margaret Bonds’ Credo with Bucks County Choral Society, Violetta in La Traviata and Clara in Porgy & Bess at Bayview Musical Festival, and Rosina in The Barber of Seville and Mable in The Pirates of Penzance with The Atlanta Opera.

She received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Shorter University under the continued mentorship of Ms. Indra Thomas, and was awarded a grant by the Fulton County Arts & Culture to produce a recital called An Amalgamation to Trinidadian Folk Songs and Classical Music. She proudly participated in the FLIP Young Artist Program with Georgia State University, The American Spiritual Intensive Young Artist Program in Bayview, Michigan and performed with The American Spiritual Ensemble in New York City under the direction of Dr. Everett McCorvey. Kayla is now based in Philadelphia where she has since collaborated in concert with Dr. Donald Dumpson, David Lofton and Thomas Lloyd.