They have performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Royal Academy of Ballet and danced at the Lyric Opera House and the Baltimore Washington Arts Festival.
But that barely scratches the surface of the dance, vocal and academic achievements of sisters Kriste and Jennipher Belt of Owings Mills.
Kriste Belt, 21, who was recently inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi academic honors society, is one of 640 undergraduate students who will graduate from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on Thursday.
Kriste Belt, who will graduate magna cum laude, decided to attend UMBC over Fordham University after UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski personally invited her to consider the public liberal arts university.
"She's taken advantage of a variety of opportunities, she's a leader on campus and, quite frankly, she's inspired other students," Hrabowski said.
Jennipher Belt, 18, will graduate with a bachelor's degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia next summer.
Their parents, Ogden and Patricia Belt, interrupt each other when talking about them, prodding one another to be accurate. Kriste Belt laughs at her parents' enthusiasm, filling in dates or instructors' names when her parents are unsure.
But she lets them have the spotlight as they tell the story of their daughters' successes, only jumping in when crucial details are overlooked. Like when Jennipher Belt, at 16, first considered studying abroad.
Mom's reaction? "She freaked," Kriste Belt said. Patricia Belt doesn't deny it.
Sometimes some of the sisters' many friends chimed in. Shane Fitzgerald recently remembered recording a CD with the girls a few years ago.
Kriste Belt, a Linehan Artist Scholar at UMBC, studied with world-famous performers last summer at the Broadway Theatre Project in Tampa, Fla., while Jennipher Belt continued her studies at the Melbourne institute, where she is studying economics and finance.
"We've got a couple of young ladies here who I'm obviously prejudicially proud of ... and something tells me it's just beginning," said Ogden Belt.
If the second act is anything like the first for these sisters, they're well on the way to fulfilling their father's expectation.
Both sisters will open a new chapter in their lives and head to graduate school next year. Kriste Belt will continue her voice training, the next step on what she hopes will be a path to Broadway. Jennipher Belt plans to study law and business.
But the sisters weren't always winning awards.
Their parents remember when the sisters used to organize their young friends and relatives and put on performances in their home, using the fireplace as the stage. But even then, they seemed determined to succeed, often spending an entire day upstairs rehearsing for the show.
"It just gets better and better," their father said.