Aria Minasian, a recipient of the Presidential Conservatory Scholarship, graduated cum laude in June from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin, with a bachelor of music in vocal performance.

This past year she performed the role of Celebrant in Bernstein’s “Mass” with Lawrence University Opera and was selected to sing Rachmaninoff’s “In the Silent Night” in Russian for the Commencement Concert. She sang in the Lawrence University women’s choir, Cantala, all four years; the choir was invited this year to perform for the National Choir Director’s Conference. Minasian will be performing Mercedes in “Carmen” this summer in Utah.