Mezzo-soprano Kathryn Weld has performed extensively
throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. She has made two
solo appearances with the New York Philharmonic, one with Charles Dutoit
conducting de Falla's Three-Cornered Hat, and the other under the direction
of Kurt Masur in Grieg’s Peer Gynt. She made her Carnegie Hall debut to
critical acclaim in a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor with Musica
Sacra. Other highlights of her symphonic work include Mahler’s Songs of the
Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) with the Olympia Symphony,
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony with the Seattle Youth Symphony, and Berlioz’
Les Nuits d’Ete with Orchestra Seattle. This year is Ms. Weld’s second
appearance with the Mahler Festival.On the stage, Ms. Weld has appeared
with the Seattle Opera, the Regensburg Opera Theater in Germany, Opera
Carolina, Tacoma Opera, and the State Repertory Opera of New Jersey, among
others. This August she will present the one-woman opera Bon Appetite by Lee
Hoiby in the Annas Bay Music Festival. She was a National Semi-finalist in
the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. A recent opera review had this to say;
"Weld has a remarkable voice, an expressive mezzo with an unusual timbre:
full and warm with depth and a light vibrato shaping it" Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
While living in Germany, Ms. Weld was a featured soloist with such
prominent ensembles as the Bavarian Radio Choir (Bayerischen Rundfunkchor),
the Consortium Musicum of Munich, and the Prague Philharmonic. She has also
been featured with the St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra, the Sapporo Symphony and the Osaka Chamber Orchestras in
Japan. Other Northwest appearances include those with the Oregon Symphony,
Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Tacoma
Symphony, and the Bellevue Philharmonic.
Ms. Weld has won recitals on both coasts, including the YWCA Lieder
Competition in New York and the Northwest Young Artists Competition in
Seattle. This season of recitals includes a solo concert of 20th century
English art song to be presented at Poncho Theater in Seattle and later in
the year in Paris, France with internationally renowned accompanist Laurana
Mitchelmore.
Weld serves as an Affiliate Artist Voice Faculty at the University of
Puget Sound and at Cornish College of the Arts.
