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The American soprano, Kathryn Summersett, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in in Vocal Performance from the University of Massachusetts in 2008 (Major Voice Professor: William Hite); her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance: Early Music Minor from the University of North Texas (UNT) in 2011 (Major Voice Professor: Jennifer Lane). At UNT, she received the Adams/Nordstrom Early Music Award given to one student per year. In addition, while at UNT, she performed the role of Despina in W.A. Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte with the UNT opera. She is currently earning her Doctor of Music from the Historical Performance Institute at Indiana University (Major Field: Performance; Minor Field: Music History). She was the first vocalist to receive a scholarship to attend the Lute Society of America conference in 2012. In 2013, she became a Certified McClosky Voice Technician in the summer of 2013 and is currently teaching in Bloomington.
Kathryn Summersett is soprano singer and historical performance specialist. She has been a featured soloist at Boston Early Music Festival in 2009, 2011 and 2013 and in 2010 she performed by invitation at the University of Cordoba in Argentina.. In the 2014-2015-season, she performed in the first American Bach Soloists’s Academy, as well as the Berkley Early Music Festival for EMA's Young Performers Festival. She topped off this busy season by directing, and performing in, the Bloomington Early Music Festival.
Kathryn Summersett solos regularly with groups such as Liber: Ensemble for Early Music, Fort Wayne Bach Collegium, Les Touches, Pro Arte: Saint Louis, Shakespeare's Ear, and Concentus Ensemble within the Jacob’s School of Music. I.U. roles include the Italian girl in J.B. Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, fairy in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Venus in John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Humilitas in Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum, and La Paix and La Sagessa in Lully’s Armide and Proserpine. In 2014, she sang for the modern premiere of Mexican Solo Cantata Murio por el pecado by Manuel de Sumuya. NPR broadcasted this performance nation wide to celebrate the 2014 Christmas season.
In addition to her solo achievements, Kathryn Summersett has extensively participated in and constructed stage productions. In 2013 she directed and produced the Purcell Project: A Masque. In 2014 she staged and produced Musica Dolce for the Jacobs School of Music EMI and 2014 Bloomington Early Music Festival. In 2015 she directed Heaven Versus Earth: A Soul's Moral Predicament, for JSOM organ conference. In addition, Kathryn directed the Medieval opera Ordo Virtutum for both Indiana University's Concentus ensemble and the Midwest Medieval Musical Conference in Terre Haute, Indiana. |
