mezzo-soprano
KATHERINE LERNER LEE
Winter2026
In concert: MSM Faculty Recital
Jan 22nd | 7:30pm
Manhattan School of Music. NY
New to the MSM faculty in the 2025-2026 year, Katherine joins her colleagues for an evening of song, opera and musical theater ensembles. Alongside pianist, Eric Sedgewick, Katherine performs Debussy's Chanson de Bilitis.
Fall2025
On stage: The Queen's Heart (Fraarte)
September 13/14
September 20/21
Throughout NYC!
Katherine returns to the company of Opera Essentia, to present a distilled version of Handel's Radamisto through NYC libraries and parks. For more information, visit: https://www.operaessentia.org/
In concert: Hindemith's
Die Serenaden
Oct 5 | 3pm
St. John's Park Slope, St. John's Pl
Returning to her native Park Slope, Katherine joins Concerts on the Slope to present Hindemith's little performed work, Die Serenaden, for voice, viola, cello and oboe. The program also includes works by Alexei Heiff and composer in residence, Clarice Assad.
In concert: Mozart's Vespers
November 16th | 3pm
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, NYC
Katherine performs the soprano solo in Mozart's well-beloved Vespers with the St. Andrew's Chorale and Orchestra. Also on the program is Britten's seasonally appropriate Saint Nicholas. Ticket information to be announced.
In concert: Handel's Messiah
December 14th | 3:30pm
Congregational Church of Westborough, MA
Katherine performs as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Assabet Valley Singers under the direction of Robert Eaton.
summer 2025
In Recital: Musicians on the Rise
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.
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.