One of the Semi-finalists at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 1996/ Eastern region in NYC, is a Higher Lebanese National Conservatory graduate, with a Bachelor of Arts in Law/ St. Joseph Univ. and a Master's in Vocal Performance/ Rice Univ. in Houston, TX. Her Houston Grand Opera Début was in Le Nozze di Figaro/1991. Had won the Encouragement Award from the Wagner Society, in NYC/1995. Has also concertized in Russia, Japan, Lebanon, Canada, and the USA at major concert halls like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Museum, Dag Hammerjskold Auditorium, the General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters, Symphony Space, CAMI Hall, Merkin Hall, MIT Univ., Detroit Museum, George Washington Univ., Ann Arbor, Agnes Scott college in Atlanta, The Museum of civilizations in Ottawa, Univ. of Massachusetts etc., in the Tchaikovsky Hall /Moscow and in Act City Hall in Hamamatsu /Japan, The Royal Palace Theater/ Amman, The International Damascus Festival, the Babylon Festival... Miss Ghanem resides now in Lebanon and teaches voice at the Lebanese Univ. and at the Higher Lebanese National Conservatory. Miss Ghanem can be heard in ‘After Black Room’, A Composition by Sarah Plant (A Middle Eastern Chant on Robaiyyat Omar Al-Khayyam), commissioned by Bill T. Jones Dance Group, New York - 1996. Her first self-produced recording is titled ‘Come ready and see me’ - 1997 and is a collection of love songs in Russian, French, English and Arabic. Her appearance a