Tamara Ghattas

Mezzo-Soprano

Tamara Ghattas is a scholarly book editor and freelance musician who sings regularly with several Chicago-area ensembles. As artistic director and a longtime member of Golosa, a folk choir specializing in authentic performance of rarely heard Siberian polyphonic song, she has spent time studying that music in its native setting along the shores of Lake Baikal. She plays several instruments and dabbles in vocal percussion, all clumsily but with great unwarranted confidence. She speaks Italian passably. Tammy grew up outside of Boston and holds degrees in linguistics and creative writing from the University of Chicago and DePaul University. She once won on Jeopardy! and can complete a New York Times Saturday crossword in around ten minutes. Someday, she would like to narrate an audiobook. She is forever on the verge of forming a vaudeville troupe with her husband Todd and tween children Oscar and Louisa, the three funniest people she knows.