Talia Maria Sheehan

Vocalist, Music Educator, Conductor

Talia Maria Sheehan has been a professional vocalist and music instructor for over twenty years. Her musical background and performance experience is broad, including rock lead vocals, jazz and classical piano, operatic soprano, and folk and classical ensemble singing. She received her musical education at Westminster Choir College, where she sang in the Westminster Choir under the direction of Joseph Flummerfelt, and appeared with them on many of the great American stages. As a professional ensemble singer she has performed with Cappella Romana, the Grammy-nominated Saint Tikhon Choir, and the Grammy-nominated PaTRAM Institute Singers. She was recently a featured soloist with Bach in Baltimore concert series. She lives and works at St. Tikhon’s Monastery and Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. She teaches voice, music theory, and liturgical music, and directs a children’s choir and a women’s choir. She is co-founder and Program Director of Artefact Institute, a collective of “culture creators.” Her musical instruction synthesizes age-appropriate vocal technique, with an early music influence, and systematic Kodály-based music pedagogy. She lives on the grounds of St. Tikhon’s Monastery with her husband, composer and conductor Benedict Sheehan, and their seven daughters.