Karen Adair is a soprano who loves to eat chocolate, swim, read, walk on vacant wet beaches, and practice yoga! Her voice is described as “crystal clear and so strong that when she sang everything else on stage melted away,“ (Ocala Star Banner), and “powerful and polished” (Daytona Beach News Journal). The Florida Times-Union Fine Arts writer said “her voice made hearts shudder”. “Warm and opulent”, “Hers is a most expressive voice.”(The Times Herald-Record, NY).

In 2008, she made her solo debuts with Jacksonville Lyric Opera (FL) and the Messiah Choral Society of Orlando FL at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center in Handel’s The Messiah, performed Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass as soloist returning to the Jacksonville Masterworks Chorale (FL) and reprised Yum-Yum in The Mikado for the Gilbert & Sullivan Singers in Orlando. In 2009 she returned in concert to First Coast Opera and to the St Augustine Community Chorus and Orchestra for Brahms' A German Requiem and made her solo debut with the Valdosta Symphony for Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. 2010 included an exclusive concert for the clients of GMB Wealth Management and another triumphant return to the historic Ancient City Baptist Church in St Augustine, FL, for Carmina Burana with the St Augustine Community Chorus and Orchestra. Previously, in 2004, she recorded sacred arias with conductor Kirk Trevor and the Slovak Radio Symphony in Bratislava, Slovakia for her currently available self-titled solo CD. Her voice is heard on three CDs, “The Dramatic”, “Karen Adair: Sacred Arias”, and her premier Christmas CD, “When God Is a Child”.

Since the millenium, she appeared with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (FL), the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra (Sofia, Bulgaria), Ensamble Rosario (Argentina), Ormond Beach Symphony Orchestra, Valdosta Symphony, First Coast Opera, and Florida's First Coast Arts Festival. She emerged professionally with the Central Florida Symphony, members of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, the Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble (NYC), and the Orlando Opera Company, for whom she was a Resident Artist. She has performed the soprano solos to Handel’s The Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Choral Fantasy, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in D, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s The Creation, and Lord Nelson Mass, and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, the roles of Cio-cio san in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Mother in Menotti’s Amahl & the Night Visitors, Yum-Yum in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Christine from The Phantom of the Opera (in concert), Lady Thiang in The King & I, and Nimue in Camelot.

Carving out her niche as a proponent of new music, she has premiered works by Bob Moore (GIA Music Publications and CDs), Valerie Saalbach (The Actor's Studio, NYC) and A. Paul Johnson (The Apollo Project), among others. She holds a BA in Music with Honors and MM, both from UF, and is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is an active certified 200hr RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) with the international Yoga Alliance. Karen and husband, Tom, are the proud parents of a son, and a set of boy-girl twins!