Sophia Pelekasis is a Greek-American singer and actress who has a burning passion for making art into a universal and empowering language. Currently, Ms. Pelekasis is a fourth year undergraduate at The Juilliard School where she studies under the tutelage of Darrell Babidge. 

Sophia will begin the 2025 season with a performance at the Harvard Club of New York, showcasing a heartfelt selection of Greek art songs that celebrate her heritage. Additionally, in the spring of 2025 Ms. Pelekasis will be performing in a recital featuring composer Tom Cipullo’s work at the Juilliard School, the Greek-Heritage Day Parade in Philadelphia, at the American Hellenic Institute in Washington DC, and conducting her Graduation Recital at the Juilliard School. In the summer of 2025, Sophia is thrilled to be a young artist at the Manetti Shrem Opera Program at the Napa Valley Festival in California. 

In the 2023/24 season, Ms. Pelekasis made her role debut as Marcelina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Juilliard Opera. Additionally, Pelekasis performed at the invitation of the Harvard Club of New York to honor Clive Davis on his 92nd birthday. Sophia was the national anthem singer for the Phillies Baseball Team’s Hellenic night at the invitation of the American Hellenic Institute and for the PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation Gala. She also performed with Juilliard 415 for their readthrough of Handel’s Messiah. 

In the 2022/23 season, Pelekasis performed a recital honoring Maria Callas’s 100th Birthday at the Kaufman Music Center at the invitation of the Hellenic-American Cultural Foundation. Sophia had the ability to return to her homeland and perform as a soloist at the Theocharakis Foundation for their annual Christmas concert in Athens, Greece.

Ms. Pelekasis has also performed as a soloist at venues for various Hellenic Events such as The US Capitol, The National Institute of Peace for the OXI Day Foundation, The Greek Embassy in Washington DC, The American Embassy in Greece, and for the AHEPA and Daughters of Penelope organizations.

Her repertoire extends across opera, musical theatre, and original works. Sophia has also performed in roles such as Ma Moss in Copland’s The TenderLand and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at The Catholic University of America. Pelekasis also performed in roles such as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia, and Cinderella in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Edison Theatre Company.