American Soprano, Kyla McCarrel is originally from Southern California and is an active performer and music educator in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas. Most recently, Kyla appeared as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte as a guest artist with Opera Chapman and Baby Doe in the Ballad of Baby Doe with Opera in the Ozarks. Kyla has also performed in the Phoenix and New York areas, most notably as Adriana in the ASU English Workshop Premiere of Fowler and Flack’s Behold the Man: L’Opera del Ecce Homo and the Metropolis Opera Project (NY) in the chorus of their production of Tosca. Kyla has also performed as a featured soprano soloist, most recently in "A Southern California Christmas" at Musco Center for the Arts, and in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana with the Mount Desert Summer Chorale in Bar Harbor, Maine.

 

 

Kyla holds a Master of Music degree from Arizona State University in Opera Performance. While at ASU Kyla studied with Carole FitzPatrick and performed a variety of operatic roles including Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore), and Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) through Arizona State’s Music Theatre and Opera (formerly ASU Lyric Opera Theatre). Their production of H.M.S. Pinafore was awarded 2nd place for the 2017 American Prize in Opera - College/University division.

 

Kyla received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Music Education from Chapman University, where she studied with Dr. Rebecca Sherburn, Dr. David Alt and Margaret Dehning, and performed with Opera Chapman and the University Singers. Kyla has also worked as a conductor and instructor with the Chapman Choral Music Camp each summer from 2013–2017 and 2019. 

 

Kyla also frequently works as a church musician in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas, and currently serves as the Soprano Soloist and Section Leader for Coventry Choir at All Saints Church, Pasadena. She is also an accomplished pianist with over twenty years of study, and worked as an accompanist and worship leader on piano in the Phoenix area.

 

When not on the stage, Kyla shares her passion for music by maintaining a private voice studio, and as part of the faculty at Chapman Universsity’s Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, where she is an instructor of private voice, has taught classes in Acting for Singers and Musical Theatre, and is the former conductor of the University Treble Choir (2018-2022).