Yunona Tabala is a Russian-American lyric-coloratura based in Boston, MA. She recently received her Master's of Music degree from Longy School of Music of Bard College as a Natasha Jakoff Scholar. This May, as an Artist in Training with the Mass Opera Artist Training Program at Longy School of Music, Yunona is taking part in The Magic Flute production in Spring 2023 as the Second Spirit and as the study cover of Pamina. In June, she is excited to make her Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall debut as an Honorable Mention recipient of the 2022 American Virtuoso International Music Competition. 
      Yunona is serving as a soprano soloist and section leader at First Parish in Lexington Unitarian Universalist, where she frequently performs excerpts from treasured oratorio repertoire, including Mozart's Requirem, Handel's Messiah and Beethoven's Mass in C. In December 2022, she appeared with the Masterworks Chorale Boston as a soprano soloist for the group's 61st annual Messiah Sing. 
     A committed educator, she serves on the faculty of MJ's Music School in addition to running her own private teaching studio in Brighton, MA.