Dr. Donna Connolly has garnered acclaim from locales as diverse as Bangkok, Cairo, Manila, Hong Kong, Korea, and Italy and major opera and concert houses in New York City and the United States. A Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition winner, as well as a first prizewinner in the Liederkranz Foundation Competition, and the National Federation of Music Clubs National winner, she is also a recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Grant and the Puccini Foundation Award. In addition, she was selected for the distinguished Voice Internship at Mount Sinai’s Grabscheid Voice Center in New York City under the leadership of Dr. Peak Woo. Dr. Connolly has her DMA degree from Rutgers University and her Master’s degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. Presently she is Coordinator of Vocal Studies at New Jersey City University in Jersey City. Dr. Connolly is a member of The National American Teachers of Singing and the New York Singing Teachers Association. Dr. Connolly had the pleasure of serving as a faculty member at the AIMS Summer Music program in Graz, Austria as well as a faculty member of Tarleton University’s Summer Music Study Abroad program in Tuscania, Italy under the auspices of the Lorenzo de Medici School in Italy.