Dr. Miracle Amah
A native of Nigeria, Miracle Amah is an educator, librettist, and soprano currently based in the United States. She performs various genres of music which includes opera, art songs, oratorios, popular music, contemporary music, negro spirituals, jazz music, etc. Dr. Amah has played major roles in several opera productions. Her staged performances include scenes, full Opera productions, and short performances in Nigeria, Canada, Germany, Russia, Dubai, and the United States.
Dr. Amah maintains a professional singing career, writing lyrics and premiering new compositions by Nigerian and African composers. Appended to her credentials are a doctoral degree in Vocal Performance, Pedagogy and Literature from James Madison University, a Master’s degree in Opera and Vocal performance from the Longy School of Music, a Licentiate with the Associated board of the royal school of music (ABRSM) in vocal performance (LRSM); which is a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance, and two associate degrees in Vocal Performance from the Mountain top Conservatory and the MUSON Diploma School of Music.
Right from the inception of her career in Nigeria and now as an international artist, Miracle has performed with different choirs, making a number of international choir trips. Some of which include the 9th Johannes Brahms International Choral Festival in Wernigerode, Germany, in July 2015, where she won a gold medal with the Mountain Top Chorale (MTC) as a member of the choir and also as a Soloist. Exactly a year after that, she won two gold laurels with the same choir at the Interkultur World Choir Games Competition that took place in Sochi, Russia.
In 2016, she was awarded four awards by the Musical Society of Nigeria: the Mrs Francesca Emmanuel Prize for Best Female Operatic singer, the Bode Emmanuel Award for Best Female singer, the Dr. Mrs. Femi Akinkugbe Prize award for Voice, and the Mr. Joseph Oparamanuike Graduate Opera Award. From the fall of 2017 till the spring of 2019, she was one of the soprano soloists with the Longy Women’s Chorus, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In February 2020, Miracle won first place in the VA-NATS competition in her category. Also, in February 2021, she won first place in the same competition at a higher category.
Dr. Amah has given lectures and masterclasses at colleges, institutions, schools, and churches around the world. She taught at the MountainTop Conservatory of Music, Lagos, Nigeria, where she was an Assistant Professor teaching vocal techniques. Included in her portfolio is working with different choirs from several locations around the world. She has also given talks at conferences that address racism and diversity issues in academia. Her presentations include discussions about African music and vocal repertoire with topics that target performance practice and diversifying classical music; this included a recital featuring Nigerian music and highlighting several languages and genres. She recently published four short books and her dissertation titled Decolonizing and Enriching Opera. In November 2022, she co-wrote a book titled “Essays onMiles Davis,” and this has been published and is currently sold on Amazon. Her most recent publication is “Instrumental Passion: Inspiring Words by the Music Makers In My Life” (2024). She co-wrote this book with Carolyn Zeytoonian and other authors. Presently, she is a voice professor at Illinois Central College, Peoria, Illinois, and has accepted the position of Operations Assistant at Àkójọpọ.
