Waltye Rasulala, lyric soprano, has entertained audiences in both concert halls and  theaters. She was the featured artist with the Mallarmé Chamber Players in their concert  “American Music From The Harlem Renaissance”, performed with pianist Brenda Bruce and NC Symphony flutist Pam Nelson in a “Tribute to Schubert” for the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, North Carolina Museum Concert Series, for the 50th Anniversary  of the North Carolina Art Museum and a program of an “Evening of Spain and its Influences” at Page-Walker Art Center. 

Theater performances have included the New York City Broadway Production of “Hello Dolly” as Mrs. Rose and as understudy in the role of Irene Malloy, in Los Angeles as Mrs.  Murrant in the Inner City Theater production of Kurt Weil’s “Street Scenes”. Local audiences have enjoyed her as Sister Sara in the NCCU Theater production of “Guys and Dolls”, as Heidi in Theatre in the Park’s production of Steven Sondheim’s “Follies”, in productions of “I Love a Piano” a tribute to Irving Berlin and “Serenading the Moon: the songs of Johnny Mercer” at NCSU"s Thompson Theatre. 

A graduate of Westminster Choir College of Rider University with a Bachelor of Music  in Voice and Master of Music in Choral Conducting, Waltye was a member of the famed  Westminster Touring Choir and Symphonic Choir. Performances with these choirs  included the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Princeton Symphonies under the  batons of conductors, Leonard Bernstein, Bruno Walter, Sir John Barbirolli, Herbert von  Karajan, Warren Martin and Elaine Brown. 

In New York she studied with Carolina Segera Holden and in NC she studies with Lisbeth  Carter.  

Waltye is Choir Master Emeritus at Church of the Nativity and teaches beginning piano,  voice and music theory to students at Community Music School of Raleigh. Prior to her position at Church of the Nativity as Choir Master, Waltye was Public Affairs  Director/Producer for WRAL-TV, Director of Grants for the A.J. Fletcher Foundation and  Development Director for the NC Partnership for Children. 

She received an Emmy Award for Children’s Programming in Washington, DC were she was a producer and on air talent for a daily children’s educational program at WMAL TV (now WJLA-TV), and the North Carolina News Director’s Award for outstanding Public Affairs for her work at WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC. In 1986, she was awarded the Raleigh Medal of Arts for her outstanding music contributions and support of the arts. Additionally she has been a Producer and on-air anchor for a morning show in Los  Angeles at KTLA-TV and Producer/anchor of a public affairs program at WMAL-TV  (now WJLA-TV) in Washington, DC. 

Waltye has served on numerous community boards and at the present time is President  of NCCMI (North Carolina Chamber Music Institute) founded by Associate Cellist of  the North Carolina Symphony, Elizabeth Beilman and her husband former principal  clarinetist of the North Carolina Symphony, Jimmy Gilmore. She is a former member of  the Raleigh Arts Commission, former member of the Raleigh Little Theatre, Theatre in  the Park, and present member of Raleigh Fine Arts.