Praised for her “soaring lyrical voice” and “flights of stratospheric brilliance,” (Arizona Daily Star, Miami Herald) soprano Kathryn Mueller is a versatile performer with specialties in early music and contemporary works. Kathryn has appeared as a soloist with the Washington Bach Consort, Phoenix Symphony, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Firebird Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), Albuquerque Baroque Players, and Chicago's Ars Antigua.
Solo concert works performed include Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, B Minor Mass, and Christmas Oratorio, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Mozart’s Requiem and C Minor Mass, Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, and Stravinksy’s Pribaoutki. She has sung the operatic roles of Amy in Little Women, Monica in the The Medium, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and Miss Pinkerton in The Old Maid and the Thief with companies including Arizona Opera and Bach Collegium San Diego.
Kathryn gave the world premiere of Ananda Sukarlan’s song cycle Love and Variations, commissioned for her vocal-piano ensemble, the Swara Sonora Trio. She is featured as a soloist on albums by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Tucson Chamber Artists, and Seraphic Fire, including Bach’s Cantata 84 with Seraphic Fire’s Firebird Chamber Orchestra, and Seraphic Fire’s best-selling recording of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, which reached number one on the iTunes classical chart.
An accomplished choral musician as well as a soloist, Kathryn has sung with some of the finest choral ensembles in the United States, including the Handel and Haydn Society, Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Seraphic Fire (Miami, FL), Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and the Washington Bach Consort. She also performs with the internationally-acclaimed medieval group LIBER.
Kathryn made her international debut in 2009 on an Indonesian concert tour with the Swara Sonora Trio, closely followed by concerts in Central Mexico with the baroque ensemble Capella Guanajuatensis. Her soprano duo Les Sirènes debuted on the Arizona Early Music Society series last season. This summer Kathryn will be one of four fellows in the prestigious Adams Vocal Master Class at the Carmel Bach Festival.
Upcoming performances include Kathryn’s debuts with San Francisco’s American Bach Soloists, the Winston-Salem Symphony and Durham (NC) Choral Society, and repeat engagements with Santa Fe Pro Musica, Seraphic Fire, and Albuquerque Baroque Players. In January Les Sirènes will give a featured concert on Trinity Wall Street’s Concerts at One series in New York.
Kathryn holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in music from Brown University and The University of Arizona, respectively. She spent a summer in Salzburg, Austria, where she studied Lieder at the Mozarteum. Between performing travels Kathryn directs marketing for her family's Sonoita, Arizona winery.
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