Talia Sheehan is a Bahamian-born, fourth-generation female church musician, and has been a professional singer and music educator for over twenty-five years. Her musical background and performance experience is broad, spanning recitals, musicals, operas, jazz bands, rock bands, folk choirs, chamber choirs, symphonic choirs, Protestant worship, Catholic worship, Orthodox worship, and electronic music. She attended Westminster Choir College, where she sang in the Westminster Choir under the direction of Joseph Flummerfelt, and appeared on many of the great American stages. As a professional ensemble singer she has performed with Cappella Romana, the GRAMMY®-nominated Saint Tikhon Choir, the GRAMMY®-nominated PaTRAM Institute Singers, and Artefact Ensemble. She was recently a featured soloist with Bach in Baltimore concert series. She is the director of the St. Tikhon’s Music Program, a one-year intensive music leadership residency for Orthodox Christian church musicians. She teaches voice, music theory, and liturgical music, and directs a children’s choir and a women’s choir. She is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Artefact Institute, a collective of “culture creators” who work to build living contexts for the arts and community. She lives on the grounds of St. Tikhon’s Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, with her husband, composer and conductor Benedict Sheehan, and their seven daughters, who now represent the fifth generation of female church musicians.