Kathy Kessler Price, soprano

Kathy Kessler Price, soprano, has performed as soloist in such distinguished venues as the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, as well as in a solo concert tour of the Czech Republic (Southern Bohemia Music Festival) and at the St. Moritz Music Festival in Switzerland. As a founding member of the Washington Vocal Consortium, she has helped pioneer team-teaching techniques in voice and may be heard on the Vehicular Vocalizes recording, as well as the recording Sweet and Strange as a soloist and director of the acclaimed ensemble, Philomela. Ms. Price has performed and taught vocal workshops throughout the United States and is currently a voice professor at William Jewell College in Missouri. Her operatic roles include Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone, Miss Silverpeal in Mozart's The Impresario, Marenka in Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Adele in Die Fledermaus, title roles in both The Merry Widow and Naughty Marietta, Polly in The Beggar's Opera, Jenny in Weill's Down In the Valley, Mrs. Which in Larsen's A Wrinkle in Time, Josephine in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore and Yum-Yum in The Mikado. In American Musical Theater she has enjoyed such roles as Anna in The King and I, Guenevere in Camelot, Fiona in Brigadoon, Carrie in Carousel, Marion in The Music Man, and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. For many years Ms. Price performed with the Washington Opera, the last six being under the artistic direction of Placido Domingo. She has appeared with numerous orchestras as a soloist including the Alexandria Symphony, McLean Symphony, and the Atlantic Jazz Orchestra in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, San Francisco, and at Disney World and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

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