Biography
Tara Khozein is a soprano, theatre-maker, improviser, teacher, and composer. She has lived, studied, and worked throughout the United States and Europe, and was born in Quito, Ecuador to a mixed Iranian-American family. As a performer, she explores the intersections of classical and experimental singing, and physical theatre, usually experimenting with the presence of the audience. She is also a musical director for theater and a performance director for musicians.
Tara holds an artist diploma in physical theatre from The Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, a B.M. in classical vocal performance, and is a lifelong student and explorer of western-classical and extended vocal techniques. After her formal education, she lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for seven years, where she directed circus, immersive, operetta, and children's performances, and established her improvisation practice. While in Santa Fe, she became a company member of Theater Grottesco, and was on the original sound design and creation team for Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, where she later served as the content director for immersive performance. She moved to Budapest at the end of 2019, and established an online voice studio during Covid, where she continues to teach students from around the world.
Her recent creative projects include performance in Once Within a Time, a film by Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass, sound design for Stereo Akt's Addressless at NYC's Rattlestick Theatre, and the central role in Samu Gryllus's interactive opera, Geiseloper. She is a member of The Tara and Rhonda Show, JazzaJ's Budapest Improvisors Orchestra and Timo Kinnunen's International Experimental Orchestra.
She will premiere two new works by Czech composer Ondrej Adámek in 2024: Ines at Opera Köln and Connection Impossible with Ensemble Modern.
Tara is based in Budapest, Hungary
