Kate Soper

Described by The New Yorker as "one of the great originals of her generation," Kate Soper has been creating unique and uncategorizable musico-theatrical spectacles for over a decade. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Rome Prize fellow, she has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Koussevitzky Foundations and the American Academy of Letters, and has been commissioned by Miller Theatre, Alarm Will Sound, and the New York Philharmonic. Her large-scale works include the monodramas "Voices from the Killing Jar" and "IPSA DIXIT" and the operas "Here Be Sirens," "The Romance of the Rose," and "The Hunt." Praised by The New York Times for her "lithe voice and riveting presence," Soper performs frequently as a new music soprano, and has been featured as a composer/vocalist on the New York City-based MATA festival and Miller Theatre Composer Portraits series, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW series, and the LA Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series. As a non-fiction and creative writer, she has been published by McSweeney's Quarterly, PAJ, the Massachusetts Review, Theory and Practice, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. She is a co-director of Wet Ink, a New York-based new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out adventurous music across aesthetic boundaries.