Rachelle Romero, soprano, is pursuing a DMA in Early Music Performance at USC’s Thornton School of Music, where she studies with Jennifer Ellis Kampani and serves as the program's Teaching Assistant. A native Californian originally from the Central Coast, she holds a BM in Vocal Performance from Azusa Pacific University and a MA in Early Music from USC. In addition to L.A. Camerata, Rachelle performs regularly as a vocalist with the Thornton Baroque Sinfonia and the USC Collegium Workshop Ensemble under Adam Knight Gilbert and Rotem Gilbert, as well as Los Angeles-based chamber choir the Sterling Ensemble under director Michelle Jensen. She has also performed with KUSC at LACMA Sundays Live, the Boston Camerata, and the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Her research interests include women’s studies in early modern sacred music, seventeenth century English repertory, and vocology.