The charming and talented soprano, Tami Petty, has performed across North America in such venues as New York's Lincoln Center, San Francisco Opera Center, Chautauqua Opera, Central City Opera, and Canada's London Fanshawe Symphonic Orchestra. Operatic roles include Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Lady Billows (Albert Herring), the Mother and Witch (Hansel and Gretel), and Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti). Critics have described her "darkly-colored soprano voice of significant amplitude" in reviews ranging from "Chaucerian lustiness and luscious voice" to "dignified and perfectly paced… truly the climax of the opera" to "comedic flair and superb vocalism."

Ms. Petty makes frequent appearances with the Rochester Oratorio Society of New York. She has been heard in ROS performances in such works as Mozart’s Grand Mass in C-Minor and Coronation Mass and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and Schubert’s Mass No. 4. Other orchestral works include Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony and Dona nobis pacem, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Handel’s Messiah, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3, Bach’s Magnificat and St. John Passion.

A fine musician, Tami recently created the role of Catherine Douglas in the world premiere The Long Ride Home, an opera by Australian composer Tom Rimes. She is the featured soloist on recordings with David and Marian Craighead on Craigheads at Asbury and with Marble Collegiate Church on their 2004 release of With Many Voices.

Petty has received awards from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Connecticut Opera Guild, Chautauqua Opera Guild, the Lotte Lenya Competition, and the First Prize from the Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition. She is a Merola Opera Program alum and two-time Merola Career Grant recipient through the San Francisco Opera Center, where she has been a guest artist in Lotfi Mansouri’s production of Albert Herring with the Adler Fellows. Other young artist programs include Music Academy of the West, Cincinnati Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and the Cleveland Art Song Festival and Interactive Opera, a program designed to bring improvised opera to students K – 6 with San Francisco Opera Center.