oprano Loryn Frey received the Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Baldwin-Wallace College, the Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music and her DMA from Louisiana State University. She studied with Eve Roine Richmond while still in high school, Melvin Hakola, Lucille Villeneuve Evans, Earl Redding, Sandra Kungle and Martina Arroyo. While in college she studied opera and sang leading roles under the direction of Italo Tajo, Sophie Ginn and John Eddlemann. She has also worked with Oren Brown, Shirley Emmons, Beverly Wolff and John Alexander and coached with Thomas Grubb, Daniel Lockert, Robert Evans and Henri Venanzi. She made her professional opera debut as Adele in Die Fledermaus in Flagstaff Arizona and has also appeared professionally as Adele and Musetta in La Boheme with the Alexandria Lyric Opera under Frank Monachino; Micaela in Carmen and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte under Boris Goldovsky, and Alice Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor and the Witch in Hansel und Gretel with the Red River Opera.

Loryn Frey was a National Semi-finalist for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Young Artist Awards and a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council opera auditions. She has also appeared with Dave Brubeck as soprano soloist in his La Fiesta de le Posada and with composers Theron Kirk, Dinu Ghezzu and Dinos Constantinides and a regular soloist at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. She is a national Endowment for the Humanities Verdi Scholar and listed in Outstanding Young Women of America and Outstanding Young Women of the South. She has performed in oratorio and recital throughout the South, Ohio and in Stuttgart Germany, Paris, Florence, Roma, Marghiera and in Baja and Budapest, Hungary.

Dr. Frey has served on the voice faculty at Louisiana College as Vocal Coordinator. She is also the Opera Theater director. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has served as president of the South Louisiana Chapter and has been a member of that organization's Regional Board of Control. She has served as Louisiana's Student Auditions Chairman and Young Artist Awards Chairman for the National Federation of Music Clubs since 1998. She continues to serve as an adjudicator for these and other organizations and competitions by invitation.