Lydia Grace Goldie, soprano hailing from Danville, Kentucky received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School studying under the late Marlena Malas. Roles performed while there include Amore in the NYC debut of Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, Lillian Russel in The Mother of Us All performed in collaboration with MetLiveArts and the New York Philharmonic, and Blanche de la Force in an abridged version of Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. Other favorite roles include the Evil Stepmother in R&H’s Cinderella with The Stephen Foster Drama Association and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at the Chautauqua Institution School of Music where she previously made her Chautauqua Opera Company debut in Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and was a soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the CHQ Symphony Orchestra. In addition to operatic performance, Lydia made her debut performance with the New York Festival of Song on a program titled Rodgers, Rodgers, & Guettel and her Lincoln Center solo debut in the Wednesdays at One: Vocal Arts recital series at Alice Tully Hall in 2019. Most recently, she performed with the company of The Stephen Foster Drama Association in their 2023 productions of The Stephen Foster Story and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Currently, she is contracted to perform Evelyn Nesbit in Hardin County Performing Arts Center's Proam production of Ragtime. 

Lydia is a true collaborator and sought-after vocal partner to composers and collaborative pianists alike and has debuted over ten new song cycles, one-act operas, and musicals by composers Matthew Liu, Zachary Detrick, Adam Billings, Yusei Hata, Joshua Getman, Johnny MacMillan, and Lingbo Ma in the past five years.

Honors include being named a semifinalist in the 2023 John Alexander National Vocal Competition, an Emerging Talent Award from the 2021 Lotte Lenya Competition, second prize in the 2020 Dayton Opera Guild Competition, third prize in the 2019 Orpheus Vocal Competition, and recipient of the 2017 Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship in Voice. She also performed at the Kennedy Center after being named a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.

Lydia is also a very successful private voice teacher to both classical and musical theatre artists alike. Many of her students have gone on to study Vocal Performance or Musical Theatre Performance in college and have won awards from the Kentucky and Mid-South NATS competitions as well as participated in the American Songbook Academy, the Washington National Opera Institute, and the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.