Charity Tillemann-Dick

CHARITY TILLEMANN-DICK {[email protected]} is an American-born soprano and top-selling classical recording artist. She is also a recipient of two double lung transplants. Her memoir, The Encore, was published by Atria Books / Simon & Schuster in October 2017. In 2014, Charity released her debut album, American Grace, which reached #1 on the Traditional Classical charts on Billboard. Charity was accompanied by Joela Jones and Richard Weiss, principal pianist and cellist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Charity was raised in Denver, Colorado with her ten brothers and sisters. She graduated magna cum laude in politics and economics from Regis University. Later, she studied music at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she was a Spelman Fellow and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She currently resides with her husband in Washington, DC.