Since 1998, Lucy Thrasher has been the Director of the Resident Opera Artist Program at the Pine Mountain Music Festival in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a summer festival of opera, chamber music, cabaret, and symphony. She is co-founder of the festival's Resident Opera Artist Program and has been its director since its inception in 1998. She is also a veteran of opera and recital touring, singing for school children and for audiences in small communities across North Dakota and Minnesota. During one seven-state/province tour she sang three leading roles and in the chorus for the same production, entailing 18 costume changes. Lucy is deeply committed to training young professionals for the varied and creative world of the performing arts, particularly opera. Click on the link or logo for more information about the annual summer festival.