Tara Khozein is a soprano, songmaker, improviser, voice teacher, and theater artist based in Brooklyn, NY and Budapest, HU. She explores classical singing, poetry, banter, and pan-idiomatic vocal sounds in concert and theatre settings and specializes in collaborative processes often involving improvisation and atypical vocal techniques. She is also a vocal coach and music director for theater, and a stage director for musicians. She has performed as a soloist with institutions and festivals including Oper Köln, The Bregenz Festival, The Cologne Philharmonie, The Watermill Center, Roulette Intermedium, MusikTheaterTage Wien, the Moers Festival, House of Music Hungary, the Janacek Academy, and the Budapest Music Center. Her voice appears in Meow Wolf’s immersive exhibition House of Eternal Return and in Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass’ film Once Within a Time. Her current collaborations include projects with author/fine artist Zahra Marwan; composer/improviser/trumpet player Nate Wooley; fine artist Brian Belott; flute player Jesse Tatum; pianist/composer Gabriel Zucker; librettist Cecelia Raker Ehrenfeld; violinist Alexander Balenescu; drummer Attila Gyárfás; violist Kimia Hesabi; composer Márton Bujdosó; and her Budapest-based improvisation quintet Kat & the Devil.