“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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NPR Classical
June 6, 1pm
“Antonin Artaud’s Drama of the Mind (Featuring Paolo Uccello)” to be broadcast on NEPM -
Etchings Festival
July 5-12
Teaching and performing at the Etchings Festival in Northampton MA!
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.
