Reviews
Kate Soper, sang her own "cipher," an exotic score in which her vocal settings of text fragments from Wittgenstein, Freud, Jenny Holzer, Michael Drayton and Sara Teasdale closely matched, in timbre and gesture, a brash violin line played energetically by Joshua Modney." The New York Times, 1/30/11
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"Another surprise was Kate Soper, vocalist and composer; a remarkably agile vocalist with impressive bell-like highs to deep contralto tones....Her "cipher"... explored unison and the colors and microtones within that unison, and from that sonority, weaved patterns in an intimate connection between voice and instrument...." Sequenza21.com, 12/14/11
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"Kate Soper's duo for soprano and flute with Erin Lesser certainly ensnared me...[Soper] made the distinction between spoken and sung pitches with the agility and assuredness of a tight-rope walker." CVNC, The Online Arts Journal of North Carolina,12/9/11 (
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"No group was more bracingly thought-provoking and expansive than the Wet Ink Ensemble. These seven New York musicians/composers are fearless in testing the limitations of what instruments or musical forms can be....That played out powerfully in the unnerving but entrancing two movements from Voices From the Killing Jar, written by vocalist Kate Soper." The San Francisco Classical Voice, 11/14/11
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"Kate Soper....presided over her "Door" (2007), an exquisitely quirky setting of six poems by Martha Collins." The New York Times, 6/17/10
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