Voice

Anthony Gjelaj is a professional singer, actor, and performer who has worked various regional theatre jobs across the country. He received his BFA in Musical Theatre from West Virginia University. He has been classically trained, and has training and experience in rock/pop, musical theatre, country, R&B, and jazz. He is currently performing Off-Broadway in “Friends the Musical Parody!” And is thrilled to be teaching at Crestwood Music!

Greer Lyle, soprano, is a Carrollton, Georgia native noted for her ability to “combine brilliance with subtle nuance.” Ms. Lyle made her professional debut in 2018 as a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Once there, she earned the Gaddes Career Award and invitation to return as a Gerdine Young Artist in 2019. In spring of 2021, Greer competed at the semifinalist level for the first ever live-streamed Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In May 2022, Greer completed her graduate studies at the Yale School of Music. Her recent awards include the Julia Dykstra Award at the 2022 Vero Beach Opera Competition and Finalist in the 2022 Giulio Gari Foundation Competition. Ms. Lyle’s recent performances include Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte at Opera North and Alcina in Händels Alcina with Yale Opera. Greer has a passion for teaching children ages 2-92, and she has worked extensively as a private teacher of voice and piano. Greer has served as both music director and director of children’s theatre productions for over 12 years with the Carrollton Center for the Arts. During her graduate studies, Greer taught undergraduate voice for Yale University. Ms. Lyle is delighted to join the Crestwood team, and she looks forward to sharing her passion for music with you!

Hailed as a “soprano of ravishing, changeable beauty, blazing high notes and magnetic stage presence” by Opera News, Lyubov Petrova’s recent highlights include returns to Florida Grand Opera as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and for her first performances as Tatyana in Eugene Oneginm her first performances of Freia in Das Rheingold with both the London Philarmonic and Odense Symphony Orchestras, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Sofya in Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebow, and return to the Metropolitan Opera New York as Susanna in Le nozzle di Figaro.