“The composer, singer, and theatre artist Kate Soper is one of the great originals of her generation…”
Kate Soper is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice.
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Five College New Music Festival
September 11, 7:30pm
“The Rise of Heliocentrism and the Sorrows of Time” for soprano/piano at UMass Amherst -
European premiere of "Antonin Artaud's Drama of the Mind"
Sept. 15 and 17
Performance of “Antonin Artaud’s Drama of the Mind” by Ensemble Télémaque in Marseille and Cassis, France -
"Siren" excerpt on Philly Fringe
September 15 and 22
Excerpt from “Here Be Sirens” on the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
A Rome Prize fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Kate has been described as “a composer of trenchant, sometimes discomfiting, power." (Boston Globe)
As a performer, she has been praised as a "dazzling vocalist" (New Yorker) and likened to "Lucille Ball reinterpreted by Linda Blair" (Pitchfork Magazine).
Kate is a member of Wet Ink, an NYC-based new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out and promoting innovative music across aesthetic categories.
She is the Iva Dee Hiatt Professor of Music at Smith College.
