Tiffany Herring Concert

This is a fundraising event. Tickets cost $15. See Catie Laska.

Recognizing the importance of art, education, and social activism—Dr. James E. Conyers Sr. (Professor of Sociology) established the John J. Laska Memorial Fund to support a yearly event that explores the intersection between the power of art and social issues. This year we will use part of this fund to have Tiffany perform at the church. 

American soprano, Tiffany Herring Rufini, began her musical studies in her hometown of Terre Haute, IN, as a pianist, and trumpet player. She graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy high school as a piano student. She studied piano and voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and opera at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She developed her voice with renowned performers and teachers of singing, including Richard Miller, Giorgio Tozzi, Silvia Sass, and Aprile Millo, and has performed in the United States, South America, Europe, and North Africa.
Her repertoire spans the bel canto, lyric, and dramatic, including operas such as La Traviata, La Bohème, Norma, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana, Bluebeard’s Castle, and Die Walküre.
In 2013, Ms. Herring was awarded the Knight’s Cross Hungarian Order of Merit by the President of the Republic of Hungary, after her performances of Béla Bartók’s opera “Bluebeard’s Castle” in the original Hungarian language, in Rome, Bologna, Moscow, and New York City.