MiKayla Lynn Hatfield, a native of Van Buren, Arkansas, is an emerging soprano based in Winchester, Virginia. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Trevecca Nazarene University (Nashville, Tennessee) and a Master of Music in Performance from Shenandoah Conservatory (Winchester, Virginia). In the fall of 2023, Ms. Hatfield was offered a post-master's teaching assistantship with Shenandoah Conservatory, and she is currently in the second year of a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance (Voice). Ms. Hatfield is a student of Nancy Gustafson.

Ms. Hatfield’s performance credits span across opera, musical theatre, choral, and chamber music. Her recent theatrical roles include Lidochka in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki, Eugénie in Germaine Tailleferre's La Pauvre Eugénie, Marie Antoinette in Shenandoah Conservatory's Gothic Opera, Suor Angelica in Suor Angelica, Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical, and Father in Children of Eden. In the summer of 2017, Ms. Hatfield had the opportunity to participate in Boston Conservatory’s Opera Intensive located in Valencia, Spain. In 2018 she toured with the Trevecca Nazarene University Singers throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. In the summer of 2022 she attended the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, for six weeks. Recently She was awarded the Stephen Feinberg Scholars Scholarship, worth $20,000, through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.