We Salute Breanna Sinclairé

Today for International Women’s Month and Transgender Day of Visibility, we salute Breanna Sinclairé: singer, activist and advocate.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, and a graduate of the esteemed Baltimore School for the Arts, Breanna earned her B.F.A. at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, under the tutelages of Maria Fortuna Dean and former Cirque du Soleil star Kate Conklin.

She graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Master of Music in Vocal Performance Program, as the first transwoman of color, under the pedagogy of Ms. Ruby Pleasure.

Outside of opera, Sinclairé has enjoyed a variety of performance opportunities with LGBT and other nonprofit organizations throughout the nation — including the Gay Men’s Choruses of Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. She made her debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Gay Men’s Chorus. Other performances include Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C. and Toronto Pride Festivals, SF Trans March, Fresh Meat Trans and Queer Arts Festivals, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, LinkedIn’s LGBTQ Employee Resource Group speaker series panel discussion (alongside civil rights leader Cecilia Chung), Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness book tour, and the Transgender Law Center’s SPARK! anniversary celebration.

Breanna also made her debut as a guest artist for the Gay Men’s Chorus of DC in Durufle’s Requiem performing “Pie Jesu” at Church of the Epiphany. She was among Out magazine’s 2015 “OUT100” list of LGBT heroes. She was the first transwoman to perform the National Anthem at a professional sporting event for the Oakland A’s, SF Giants, and San Francisco Deltas. She made her debut with SF Symphony on December 31, 2018 as the first trans singer to perform with the orchestra. 

Sinclairé is the subject of a documentary film, Mezzo, which screened at the 2016 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. She has performed at festivals internationally in Canada, Amsterdam, Berlin and at the invitation of the United States Consulate in Recife, Brazil in 2024. 

Breanna has appeared with leading artists and orchestras at major venues across the U.S. and Europe, in productions including Carmen, The Magic Flute, and La Calisto. Sinclairé was featured in the opera-film Bound (Against the Grain Theatre), starred in PBS’s True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs, and was honored by the San Francisco Business Timesas an Outstanding Voice. Media features include The New York Times, NPR, and CNN. In 2026, In 2025, Breanna starred in the world premiere of Andrew Yee’s Trans Requiem, a performance that will be repeated this year. On April 3, 2026, Breanna will be a featured singer in a performance at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Congratulations and thank you Breanna for breaking barriers and blazing trails. 

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