Yolanda F. Johnson has had a varied career as an artist and supporter of the arts. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Yolanda began classical piano lessons when she was four years old. Soon after, she began singing in church services where her grandfather preached. She began her first classical vocal work at nine years old. She also has a strong familial link to Oklahoma, where she eventually completed her undergraduate studies in Vocal Performance at the University of Tulsa as a student of Linda Roark—Strummer. She then moved to Akron, Ohio for graduate studies in Voice and Arts Management, where she studied with Dr. Mary Schiller. For a while, she returned to Tulsa, where she was the Acting Executive Director of the Barthelmes Conservatory of Music. She also served on the adjunct faculty of Tulsa Community College as a voice and humanities instructor. She has performed the roles of the Narrator in Sweet Betsy from Pike, Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia, and has appeared as a concert soloist with various groups, including the Eastern Festival Symphony Orchestra. She made her New York City debut as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Touring Concert Opera Company. Yolanda has also performed with various companies and at a number of other venues in New York City and surrounding areas.

She is also a member of the Sigma Alpha Iota International Women’s Music Fraternity. Her Christian faith is extremely important to her and one of Yolanda’s goals is to truly realize classical music as worship music -- she is also active in the First Baptist Church Music Ministry in Tarrytown, NY, is on the artist roster of Sing for Hope, has been a featured presenter at Performing the World, the international performing arts conference in New York City, as well as a performer in Make Music New York and the Elysium Music Festival in Bernried, Germany.