Vanessa Hylande

Metropolitan Opera Ballet including Julie Taymor's The Magic Flute, Aida and Turandot. Singer and frequent soloist with KHORIKOS, an a cappella chorus under the Artistic Direction of Maestro Jesse Mark Peckham. Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Jerome L Greene Space (WQXR/WNYC), PS122 Gala - The Paramount Hotel/Diamond Horseshoe with Andrew Ondrejcak, and back up vocals with Shara Worden (Mason Jar Music). B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in International Relations. Formerly the Executive Director of HarlemLIVE, a non-profit youth journalism program in Harlem, worked for the Council on Foreign Relations as the Coordinator of the Public Health and Bio-Terrorism Task Force, America's Response to Terrorism Task Force Staff.