Micaela Torain - Voice

Micaela Torain is a Durham Native with a passion for singing and songwriting. Her study of piano began at the age of six under the tutelage of the late Dr. Mark Joyner. She continued to study piano and voice throughout her middle and high school years at Music Beyond Measures Studios with Andrea Moore.

She graduated from Durham School of the Arts in 2016 with a double concentration in chorus and piano. While attending DSA, she was part of the Woman’s Choral Ensemble, Sweet-n-Low Acapella club, and in her senior year acted as a teaching assistant to the beginner’s piano class. She also got the opportunity to perform Mozart’s Requiem with the Durham Choral Society and the Durham Symphony Orchestra, and to present a concert of traditional spirituals with the Fisk Jubilee Singers. She spent four years at Liberty University studying Commercial Music with a focus in Artist Development. She was instructed in voice by Dr. Samantha Miller, who specialized in vocal pedagogy and a hybrid vocal technique. She took private piano and songwriting lessons, and received high marks in her music theory and musicianship/ear training classes. She performed arrangements of her original
songs in numerous showcases, was a featured jazz soloist for The Cello Project’s arrangement of “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone, and sang a supporting role in the concert version of the Broadway musical “Amazing Grace” in conjunction with playwright Christopher Smith. She has also attended several professional songwriting retreats during and after college.

Over the years, Micaela has led worship and played piano for various ministries, including her home church, Christian Faith Center in Creedmoor. She is currently serving as the worship and ministry coordinator for “Real Gathering,” a women’s ministry of All Peoples Church in Lynchburg, VA. She continues to write songs both professionally and for personal enjoyment. She is a lover of jazz, attending concerts with friends, and caring for her many houseplants.

Her goal for her students is to become comfortable and confident in the uniqueness of their own voices, in both the literal and figurative sense. She hopes that they will experience the joy she feels when singing.