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Kara Kane, soprano |
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Soprano, Kara Kane, is a Chicago native who has performed the Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Italy’s Operafestival di Roma, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) with Houston’s Opera in the Heights, and various roles at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music where she earned her master of music and bachelor of arts degrees in vocal performance. Kara has been a recent soloist with the Bridgeport Choral Society for the their presentation of Schütz’s St. Matthew’s Passion, appeared with Light Opera Works in Fiddler on the Roof, and with the Savoy Aires as Cousin Hebe (H.M.S. Pinafore). Other solo concert performances include excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae solennes. A regional finalist and semifinalist in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, Kara has attended the Aspen Music Festival, Operafestival di Roma and the Austrian American Mozart Academy as a young artist. In summer 2005 she performed at Songfest in Malibu, California participating in a workshop for composer John Harbison performing his song “Encounter” (Milosz Songs) prior to its premier by the New York Philharmonic with Dawn Upshaw. Kara is committed to educating individual singers and audiences at large through her position as a voice instructor at the University of Notre Dame and as artistic director for the Illinois Hunger Coalition’s annual spring benefit concert “Operafest”. This event brings together local artists performing to raise money for this tireless hunger advocacy organization. Additionally, this fall Kara was selected as a Britten-Pears Young Artist at the esteemed Aldeburgh Music participating in their Education in Training Programme. Here Kara collaborated with London’s Streetwise Opera facilitating and creating music and improvisation sessions with clients at various homeless shelters in Ipswitch, England. Building off of these lessons learned, she started “Music Mondays” at Casa de Providencia, an after school program for teens and pre-teens in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. Kara has been an Information Technology consultant specializing in strategic decision support systems and helping clients leverage the benefits of technology for their specific business needs. She has worked for Ernst & Young, LLP, Continental Airlines and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Fusing her musical and IT project management skills together, Kara served as the Director of Education & Outreach for Chicago Opera Theater for several seasons. Duties included the management of Opera for All, COT’s artist residencies in the Chicago Public Schools, as well as COT’s adult education initiatives including the innovative, interdisciplinary festival India Blooms in Chicago celebrating John Adams’ newest operatic masterpiece A Flowering Tree. |
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