Conductor, singer and pianist Talia Sheehan is a Bahamian-born, fourth-generation female church musician, a professional vocalist, a music educator, and the Co-Founder and Director of Artefact Institute, a collective of culture creators who work to build living contexts for the arts and community. She has performed with Cappella Romana, the GRAMMY®-nominated Saint Tikhon Choir, the GRAMMY®-nominated PaTRAM Institute Singers, and Artefact Ensemble. She is also the director of the St. Tikhon’s Music Program, a one-year intensive music leadership residency for Eastern Orthodox church musicians. She teaches voice, music theory, and liturgical music, and directs three children’s choirs and a women’s choir. A graduate of Westminster Choir College, as well as a mother of seven daughters, Talia is currently working on her Master’s in Music Education at Teacher’s College of Columbia University.