Holiday Concert Featured Artist

Tami Dahbura

Tami is thrilled to be returning to her home town for her first appearance with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra.  Tami has enjoyed a career in the arts for almost three decades.  She has performed all over the world, but one of the first stages she performed on was this one right here at the Maryland Theatre.

Tami’s career in musical theatre has taken her everywhere from the Off-Broadway stages of New York (Pajama Game, Forgotten Broadway) to wonderful theatre while living in Hawaii (Chicago, A Little Night Music, Falsettos, Ruthless).  Some of Tami’s San Francisco Bay Area credits include Tune the Grand Up, The World Goes ‘Round, for which she received a Drama Logue Award, the World Premiere of Heart Land,  and the role of Charlotte in Flora, the Red Menace at San Francisco’s popular 42nd Street Moon.  In 1986, Tami was in the National/International tour of A Chorus Line, which toured the West Coast and Japan with several original cast members, including Donna McKechnie.
 
Tami has also performed internationally in her “one-woman show”, Lost In the Stars, which she took all the way from a sold-out run at the Empire Plush Room in San Francisco to the International Arts Festival in San Salvador, El Salvador.
 
Tami worked for many years at the nationally acclaimed American Musical Theatre of San Jose.  Some of her favorite roles at that theatre were Electra in Gypsy, Eve/Mamma Noah in Children of Eden, Joanie in The Full Monty , and the American Premiere of The 3hree Musketeers in which she also appears on the original cast recording.
 
Other favorite roles throughout her career in musical theatre are: Patsy in the West Coast's premiere production of Bingo - The Musical, and The Witch in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.
 
Besides Tami’s career in musical theatre, she has enjoyed a wonderful career as a soloist with symphony orchestras, the first of which was the annual Christmas Concert of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.  Since then Tami has had a long collaboration with symphonies in Northern California. Under the baton of Maestro Michael Morgan, she has been the featured soloist in  An Evening of Gershwin and Sondheim, and Carousel In Concert  with the Sacramento Philharmonic, From Opera to Broadway with Festival Opera, and Follies The Concert, and Showboat In Concert with the Oakland East Bay Symphony.

Tami holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is working on the release of her first CD, “Acoustic Broadway”.
 
Tami dedicates this concert to her beloved family, especially her parents; and to the memory of her grandmother, Velda Grimes – a native and life-long resident of Hagerstown.