Katherine Boyce Soprano

Commended for her “expressiveness and lush vocal lines,” soprano Katherine Boyce performs regularly throughout the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area. She has recently sung Nedda (Pagliacci) and Suzel (L’Amico Fritz) with Center Stage Opera PA, along with art song performances of Rachmaninoff and Copland with Baltimore Musicales. This summer Katherine has been invited to sing with Mark Markham, long-term accompanist of Jessye Norman, in Sicily, and will also be performing the role of Suor Dolcina (Suor Angelica) with Berlin Opera Academy.

A Baltimore native, Katherine received her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Towson University and her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. During her graduate studies, she performed Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Laurie in Act III of The Tender Land, and the Siren in the premiere of Dr. Phillip Collister's Pasticcio Furioso. She has also performed several roles at Annapolis Opera through Towson University's Opera in a Can program, singing the title role in Barab's Little Red Riding Hood, Despina in Mozart/Davies' The Three Little Pigs, and Pamina in a children's version of The Magic Flute.

At Eastman, Katherine was a Howard Hanson Scholar and performed roles in multiple Eastman Opera Theatre productions, including Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Francis Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias and John Kander’s Cabaret, in addition to various solo and chamber music recitals. Katherine was also selected to be a member of Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership’s Arts Leadership Certificate Program, through which she received a grant to intern at the Washington National Opera, was a Generation E-Student Scholarship Recipient, and coordinated the rohr(BACH) event at Rochester’s Rohrbach Brewing Company. Additionally, she studied fencing and theatre at the University of Rochester, where she served as music director and performed the role of Julie in the University of Rochester International Theatre Program’s production of Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death.

A member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Katherine currently performs, studies, and teaches in the Baltimore-D.C. area and is a current student of Jennifer Casey Cabot, having previously trained with Katherine Ciesinski and Ruth Drucker. For more information about Katherine’s performing and teaching, please visit www.katherineboycevoice.com