Lavinia Watkins

• -OC Register Artist of the Year (currently Semi-finalist) 2025
• -Spotlight Semi-Finalist 2025
• -Music International Grand Prix Semi-Finalist 2025
• -NATS Cal-Western Regionals 2nd place Winner 2025
• -Southern California Philharmonic Young Artist Award 1st place Winner (concert in April 2025)
• -Marcellina in 'Le Nozze di Figaro' at OCSA 12/2024
• -Oberlin Richard Miller Competition Semi-Finalist 11/2024
• -Grand Maestro International 2nd place Winner (Silver) 2024
• -OCSA Classical Voice Conservatory 'Spirit of OCSA' top prize winner for '23-'24 school year
• -Vocal Arts Mgmt Competition Honorable Mention 2024
• -Waitress in 'Speed Dating Tonight' opera at OCSA
• -Performs 2 solos on 2 nights in lobby before 'La Boheme' at Pacific Symphony, Segerstrom Hall
• -Young Vocalists Online Competition Honorable Mention 2024
• -Villager/chorister in 'La Fille de Regiment' at Soka Performing Arts with Parnassus Society
• -International Grande Music Competition Honorable Mention 2024
• -Solo at Carnegie Hall, Stern Hall with National Children's Chorus 5/2024
• -Cast in LA Opera's 'Noah's Flood' 2024
• -Concordia University 1st place Winner 2024
• -NATS Nationals Finalist 2024
• -Records and solos on holiday album with NCC and the LSO at Abbey Roads Studios London in Summer 2023
• -IAPMT 2nd place Grand Concours 2023
• -SPOTLIGHT - Merit Award Winner 2023
• -Opera Focus/Pacific Symphony Encouragement Winner 2023
• -IAPMT 3rd place Concours International 2022

Apparently before I could speak I could sing. I sang my first solo at age 5 in front of hundreds of people at The Grove shopping center in West Hollywood. I auditioned and joined the National Children's Chorus at age 6. Over the years I have performed in the most incredible places in the world with them, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York, Disney Hall in LA, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and even a performance for peace at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) with other children from South AND North Korea, broadcast live on Korean National TV.

In 2020, I moved from LA to Orange County and am currently a student at the Orange County School of the Arts in the Classical Voice program. I will graduate in 2026.

In Summer 2023 I performed with OCSA across Ireland; and with the NCC across the UK. I had the privilege of recording a holiday album (Illumine) with NCC at Abbey Road Studios London, accompanied by the LSO. I have a solo on "I Saw Three Ships." Upon release it quickly climbed to number 3 on the Billboard classical chart and has over 500k streams.

In summer 2024, I studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Fall 2024 highlights include: I was Marcellina in 'Le Nozze di Figaro' at OCSA, and was a semi-finalist at Oberlin College in the Richard Miller Voice Competition.

I study with privately with Milena Kitic, Dr. Pamela Blackstone, and Dr. Cheryl Lin Fielding.