Ms. Barasch has performed throughout the United States and Italy as a professional operatic soprano and is the creator of the podcast Hello Figaro and President of a prominent music school overseeing hundreds of students, M Institute for the Arts, formerly in Washington, DC and now online worldwide. Ms. Barasch holds BA in Music from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her most influential artistic mentors include Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, Virginia Zeani, and Tzvetan Konstantinov. Ms. Barasch also holds teaching studios in New York City, Northern Florida and online. Many of her students have placed with high honors at the Royal College of Music's ABRSM exams and NATS.​

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Ms. Barasch is the Founder & Creator of Hello Figaro, an arts and cultural content & media company, as well as M Institute for the Arts, formerly the second-largest community music school in Washington, DC, and since the pandemic, an online-only music school, hosting one of the most prominent pre-professional classical voice festivals of the pandemic, the New Era Voice Festival, which was featured in OperaWire and the Georgetowner.

 

In 2015, Ms. Barasch founded the M Institute for the Arts in Georgetown, Washington, DC. With the help of dedicated faculty members, committees and volunteers, the M Institute grew from a home lesson studio into one of the premiere music schools in the DC Metro Area, with hundreds of student members, a floor of community practice rooms, facilitating hundreds of instrument donations, student grants, dozens of music-centric events including music salons and fundraisers, free music classes, as well as dozens of recitals. In 2020, Ms. Barasch and her team were on the front lines of pandemic-era online lessons and experiences for the music community, including a weekly livestream recital series and several online classes per week. In the Summer of 2020, she lead a very talented team of singers who created what became, "New Era Voice Festival," with celebrity hosts from around the world including Angel Blue, Capucine Chiaudani, Lori Laitman, and Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. In the Summer of 2021, she founded the Young Artist Program with a group of talented vocalists and pianists.

 

Ms. Barasch also enjoys philanthropy and has been involved with many non-profits and causes, including Hillwood House & Museum, the American Heart Association's Palm Beach Heart Ball, the oldest gala in Palm Beach, the Junior League, where she was named to 2011 Fundraiser of the Year, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. At the age of 25, she was named Executive Director of a county political party in South Florida. She also served as a founding board member of the The International Master Institute of Music "Leopold Godowsky."​

 

When she is not making music, Ms. Barasch enjoys tennis, gardening, cooking, and playing with her red sable Pomeranian.