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.
Ms. Barasch is the Founder & Creator of Hello Figaro, an arts and cultural content & media company, as well as Founder & CEO of 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.