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summer 2025

In Recital
May 9th | 7:30pm
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center

Katherine joins double-bassist, Nina Barnet and pianist, Anthony Ratinov in a recital co-presented by Concert Artist Guild and Kaufman Music Center. The program includes Alan Blank's Poems of the Holocaust as well as a world premiere by Lara Poe. Barnet and Ratinov will also perform works by Mendelsohnn, Beethoven, Bach, Fauré and Prokofiev. 

The Queen's Heart (Fraarte)
May 23rd- 24th, 31st & June 1st
Various locations across NYC

Katherine joins NYC's Opera Essentia for a second season, performing the role of Fraarte in a distilled version of Handel's Radamisto. Opera Essentia brings free baroque opera to NYC parks and libraries, this season it will be at Green Oasis Community Garden in the Lower East Side, Marcus Garvey Park and the Dweck Center for the Performing Arts at the Brooklyn Public Library. 

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In Recital
June 21st, 2025
Fleischmanns, NY 

Katherine reprises two of her recent world premieres alongside both composers in a concert in upstate New York. She performs Scott Wheeler's Coco Chanel Sings and Tim Mukherjee's So Ist Mein Herz with each of the composers at the piano. 

winter-spring 2025

In Recital: Debussy, Wheeler & Bolcom
April 27th | 4pm
Mt. Vernon, NY

Katherine presents Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis and selections of Bolcom's Cabaret Songs alongside pianist, Eliza Garth. She also reprises Scott Wheeler's Coco Chanel Sings, accompanied by the composer. 

Greta the Fearless (world premiere)
April 12th | 5pm 
Hirschhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture, DC

Jon Deak's Greta the Fearless is a continuation of Ingmar and the Bear, a piece Katherine premiered with the 21st Century Concert in 2023. Alongside Aaron Engebreth and under the baton of Christopher Kendall, Katherine appears with the Consort for the third time.

Opera Essentia Preview
March 1st| 3pm
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Brooklyn based opera company, Opera Essentia, presents the winter preview for their upcoming production of Handel's Radamisto. Distilled into an hour, Opera Essentia presents lesser-known Handel works for free across New York City. Katherine will perform the role of Fraarte in their May/September production. 

Woman of Her Time
(world premiere)
February 1st | 5pm
Hirshorn Museum of Art and Sculpture, DC

Katherine returns to the 21st Century Concert in Washington, DC for the world premiere of Scott Wheeler's A Woman of Her Time based on the life of Coco Chanel. The program also features Mikhail Johnson's Ton yo han mek fashan, Boulanger's D'un matin du printemps and Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps for four-hands. 

fall-winter2024

Evening of New Works
September 14 | 7pm
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Katherine presents an evening of premieres by Scott Wheeler and Tim Mukherjee, collaborating with the composers themselves. The program comprises So Ist Mein Herz, by Tim Mukherjee with texts of Hermann Hesse, followed by A Woman of Her Time: Coco Chanel Sings, a cabaret song cycle by Scott Wheeler. 

Art Song Recital
October 19 | 3pm
Van Buren Hall, Kinderhook NY

Joined by pianist, Sophia Zhou, Katherine presents a full length recital of romantic and modern art song. The program includes Debussy, Schoenberg, De Falla, Korngold and Peter Lieberson's Rilke Songs. This recital is presented by Concerts in the Village, led by conductor and pianist David Smith. 

Handel's Admeto | Trasimede
September 14-15
September 21-22

Opera Essentia presents a distilled version of Handel's lesser known opera, Admeto. Performed with period ensemble, Opera Essentia travels to public gardens and libraries throughout New York City to bring opera and theater to unconventional spaces. 

Goethe Unbounded
November 3rd 
Cincinnati Song Initiative 

Katherine joins pianist, Kelly Kuo for a recital of Goethe settings with Cincinnati Song Initiative. Katherine and Kelly join up with tenor, Daniel McGrew and pianist, Sophia Zhou for this full length recital, presenting songs of Schubert, Liszt, Ives and Grieg, among others. 

Past Appearances

In recital: Shandelee Music Festival - August, 2024

In recital: The Stissing Center w/ Sophia Zhou & Daniel McGrew - June, 2024

In recital: Downtown Music at Grace with Erika Switzer - May, 2024

Marjorie Merryman's Two Elegaic Songs with Concerts on the Slope - February 2024

In recital: Songs of Sibelius, Nils Gade & Agathe Grøndhal w/ Neilson Chen - February 2024

World premiere: Jon Deak's Ingmar and the Bear w/ The 21st Century Consort - December 2023

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