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mezzo-soprano
KATHERINE LERNER LEE
NEWS
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Instructor of Undergraduate French Diction
Katherine is appointed to the voice faculty of Manhattan School of Music, teaching Undergraduate French Diction for the 2025-2026 year.
Album Release: Susan Botti's River Spirits
New Focus Records, May 9th 2025
"Composer and soprano Susan Botti's River Spirits features her eclectic musical language, fusing elements of Renaissance motet, operatic aria, and the experimental avant-garde to create a beguiling work that floats above era and stylistic specificity. Featuring performances by Botti and her vocal colleagues Mary Bonhag and Katherine Lerner Lee, River Spirits revels in lush textures and earthy expression."
PRESS
MERKIN HALL | MAY 9th, 2025
Nina Bernat, double bass
Anthony Ratinov, piano
"Katherine Lerner Lee again sang with sublime clarity and beauty of both timbre and expression; in terms of communicating emotion through the colourings of the texts, she put me in mind such iconic lieder singers as Barbara Bonney and Frederica von Stade."
- Oberon's Grove
HIRSCHORN MUSEUM OF ART & SCULPTURE
Scott Wheeler's A Woman of Her Time (world premiere)
21st Century Consort
Scott Wheeler, conductor
"Wheeler’s sweeping suite on the life of fashion designer Coco Chanel was eruditely composed and splendidly executed by the expanded consort ensemble — a pleasure from beginning to end. Soprano Katherine Lerner Lee lent Chanel enough wry edge and dry humor to light up Wheeler’s many one- and two-liners. (e.g., “Money is like the sky: pure possibility.”)
- Michael Brodeur with the Washington Post
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