“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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European Premiere of "Antonin Artaud's Drama of the Mind"
Sept. 15 and 17, Marseille/Cassis
Performance of “Antonin Artaud’s Drama of the Mind” by Ensemble Télémaque in Marseille and Cassis, France -
"Sirens" excerpt on Philly Fringe
September 15 and 22, Philadelphia PA
Excerpt from “Here Be Sirens” on the Philadelphia Fringe Festival -
"epithets" in Chicago
November 14, Chicago IL
I’ll be joining mycelium new music to sing my works “epithets” and “So Dawn Chromatically Descends to Day” at Constellation -
World premiere, "the goddess laughed"
December 5, Baltimore MD
Premiere of “the goddess laughed” for soprano, violin and cello with text by Euripides on “The Roaring Tides” series -
Wet Ink December mini-fest
December 12, NYC
“Songs for Robin” for voice, violin and cello and “The Rise of Heliocentrism and the Sorrows of Time” for soprano/piano on Wet Ink’s annual mini-fest! -
Rice U. Residency
February 19, Houston TX
I’ll perform selections from IPSA DIXIT with Wet Ink as part of a residency at my alma mater, Rice University
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.
