Adja Thomas-Mbaye

Adja Thomas-Mbaye is a second-year master’s student at the Royal College of Music in London, studying classical voice with Patricia Rozario. She is a Sir Gordon Palmer Scholarship recipient supported by Mr and Mrs. Palmer. A soprano originally from New York, she recently transitioned from being a mezzo-soprano and has previously performed the roles of Hippolyta, Hermia (cover) from Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Messagiera from Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Miami Music Festival in July 2022. She has also performed the role of Zweite Dame from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in May 2022 at the Manhattan School of Music, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree. Adja also placed 2nd in the 2022 Shirley Winston-Rabb Competition and placed 1st in the 2018 eVoco Voice Collective Competition. She recently performed at the Aspen Music Festival in 2023 under the baton of Nicholas McGegan and placed 1st in the 2025 Les Grandes Voix Competition in Paris, under the young hope category.