Laquavia Alston, Mezzo Soprano
Mezzo-Soprano Laquavia Alston is a bold up and coming artist. Ms. Alston holds a B.A. in Voice Performance and an Artist Certificate from Charleston Southern University. At the 2014 SC Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Alston was the recipient of the Gene Ferguson Encouragement Award. She has had the opportunity of performing internationally throughout Italy, England (Canterbury Cathedral Choir in Residence) and Spain (CSU concert singers). In 2012, while in Barcelona, Spain, Alston was also featured as a soloist in the closing concert of a Catalan Choir Festival at Eglesia de Sant Pere de les Puel-les. Other credits include opera chorus member of Bizet’s Carmen starring world-renowned opera star Denyce Graves ( Charleston, SC). She has also performed in ensembles supporting Grammy award winner Larnelle Harris.
Mezzo-Soprano Laquavia Alston is a bold up and coming artist. Ms. Alston holds a B.A. in Voice Performance and an Artist Certificate from Charleston Southern University. At the 2014 SC Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Alston was the recipient of the Gene Ferguson Encouragement Award. She has had the opportunity of performing internationally throughout Italy, England (Canterbury Cathedral Choir in Residence) and Spain (CSU concert singers). In 2012, while in Barcelona, Spain, Alston was also featured as a soloist in the closing concert of a Catalan Choir Festival at Eglesia de Sant Pere de les Puel-les. Other credits include opera chorus member of Bizet’s Carmen starring world-renowned opera star Denyce Graves ( Charleston, SC). She has also performed in ensembles supporting Grammy award winner Larnelle Harris.
Teaching |
Ms. Alston began her professional teaching career in Charleston, SC. While living in Charleston she instructed private voice at Wando Voice Studio (FAME) and Charleston Academy of Music. Students of Ms. Alston have gone on to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, The SC Governor’s School, Charleston County School of the Arts, Spirit, Carnival, Caribbean Cruise lines and more. Laquavia also served as a long time Staff Singer and Soprano section leader at The Church of the Holy Cross on Sullivan’s Island.
Currently working on her graduate studies at Morgan State University as a vocal student of Ms. Marquita Lister. Laquavia is the founder of La Mezzo Private Voice Studio and Co Founder of An Indivisible Art Collective. Ms. Alston is also a Music Director at Imagination Stage, a professional theatre and arts education facility in Bethesda, MD. She is also a Music Director at The Theatre Lab in Washington, DC. As an honorary Charlestonian, Ms. Alston has been featured in city wide festivals Including but not limited to the Moja Arts festival and Piccolo Spoleto. The Spirituals concert entitled I, Too, Sing America, was first premiered in the Piccolo Spoleto Spotlight Series. The concert then toured as a part of the Holy Trinity Concert Series in Gainesville, Fl. Throughout the years Piccolo's Spotlight Series awarded Ms. Alston with the opportunity to sing in Charleston’s City Art Gallery in numerous concerts.. Ms. Alston has also performed in La Scala to Broadway at the Hilton Head Island Convention Center, along with members of The University of South Carolina Voice Faculty. |
Stage Work |
While enjoying her blossoming concert career, Alston has been an American Guild of Musician’s (AGMA) Chorister since 2020. Ms. Alston performed in the 2022 Wolf Trap Opera chorus of La Traviata. Alston was cast as a chorus member in the 2020 Washington National Opera production of Porgy and Bess starring Denyce Graves. She was a standby chorus member for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 seasons at WNO. Alston has also had the privilege of participating in the 2019 PROTOTYPE Opera Festival. She was cast in Stinney : An American Execution. The Opera had its NYC premier at Beth Morrison and HERE Theatre Arts’ PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL as a work in progress directed by Jeremy O Harris and Emma Weinstein. Other stage credits include, but are not limited to: Mrs. Olga Olsen in the historical Opera at Morgan and Peabody Opera Theatre Collaboration of Street Scene by Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes in Fall 2025. Alston Opera credits also include: Mrs. Todd in Gian Carl Menotti’s One Act Opera The Old Maid and the Thief, and Dolly in Hello Dolly! Ms. Alston starred in and directed an educational production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel performed at Charleston’s Historical Library Society. In the Opera Alston performed dual roles as the Mother and Witch.
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