Clairie Parent

• American Virtuoso International Music Competition 2021 - Honorable Mention, Young Artist A
• American Virtuoso International Music Competition 2022 - 2nd Place, Young Artist A
• NATS Southern Region 2021 - 2nd Place, High School Treble
• NATS Louisiana State 2022 - 1st Place, High School Treble
• NATS Southern Region 2022 - 4th Place, High School Treble
• NATS Louisiana State 2023 - 1st Place, High School Treble
• NATS Southern Region 2023 - 1st Place, First Year Classical Treble Voices

A student of Dr. Terrie Sanders at Northwestern State University since August of 2023 and former student of Liesl Cruz at Cruz Vocal Studio in Shreveport, LA who started singing in choir at age 9 and began studying solo voice in 2020. She is currently in college at Northwestern State University pursuing her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. She is a chorister at First United Methodist Church in Natchitoches and fills in at First Methodist in Shreveport when at home. She is a former soloist, cantor, and chorister at the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, LA and has sung for the High Holy Days at B'Nai Zion Congregation for the last three years as a member of an octet where she was also a soloist. She is also a member of the Chamber Singers and Cane River Singers. Her opera debut was in October of 2023 in Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium in the role of Mrs. Gobineau and she will sing Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte in the Spring of 2024, both with the Northwestern State University Opera Theater under the direction of Dr. Robert Cardwell. She intends to pursue a professional career in opera.