Globe and Mail
“A lush voice and hidden reserves of power.”
The New Yorker
Kathleen Flynn has performed a repertoire spanning five centuries and in locales ranging from Japan to Aldeburgh. A Sullivan Foundation award winner, Ms. Flynn has sung under the baton of Seiji Ozawa, Julius Rudel, Robert Spano, Christopher Hogwood, Mario Bernardi and Jane Glover. She has performed diverse roles such as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, the title role in Handel’s Agrippina, Mrs. Grose The Turn of the Screw, Elvira in Don Giovanni, Sylvia/La Messagiera in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Bianca and the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Ermingarde in Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner, the Mother in Kurt Weill’s Der Kuhhandel, La Heine in Gluck’s Armide Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Dido and the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Lucy in John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Mrs. Sedley Peter Grimes, La Natura in La Calisto, the Fairy Queen in Iolanthe, La Marchande in Les mamelles de Tirésias. She has sung with Chicago Opera Theater, New York State Baroque, at the National Arts Center of Ottawa with the Winnipeg Ballet, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Juilliard Theater and The Kennedy Center.
She is also an accomplished recitalist having performed in many chamber music programs and solo recitals in such locations as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Center Theater, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and Harris Concert Hall at the Aspen Festival of Music. These performances included a benefit concert in Saranac Lake to preserve a former home of Bela Bartok. Ms. Flynn’s recent concert work includes her first Winterreise at Middlebury, Vermont with pianist Leo Erice, the alto soloist in a five voice version of Bach’s B minor mass at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Pales in Bach’s Hunt Cantata and Storge in Jephtha with the New York State Baroque Orchestra, mezzo soloist in Verdi’s Requiem and Clérambault’s solo cantata Léandre et Héro. Ms. Flynn was honoured to sing in the national broadcast of Robertson Davies’ memorial service.
In 2007, Ms. Flynn completed her DMA at SUNY, Stony Brook. Previously, she completed her residency at the Juilliard Opera Center, after having received a master of music degree from Juilliard. She received a diploma in operatic studies from the University of Toronto’s Opera Division and a bachelor of music degree from Dalhousie University, and has performed in summer festivals at The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, Tanglewood, Aspen and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo. Ms. Flynn is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including the Sullivan Foundation Award, Juilliard Scholarships, the Bori Grant for Language Study Abroad, a Canada Council Grant, Scholarships from the Canadian Opera Woman’s Guild, several Nova Scotia Talent Trust awards and the Portia White award.
Recent engagements have included the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Castres, France, La Messagiera in Orfeo with Stony Brook Opera for the four hundredth anniversary of the work, a workshop presentation of the chamber opera in progress, dreamseminar/drömseminarium, in Sweden, Schubert’s Winterreise at the Festival in Ribadeo, Spain and a performance of the same work in Malaga, Spain, The Sorrows of Young Werther: A Romantic Liederabend with the Ensemble for the Romantic Century in New York City, a Sing for Hope recital in Pullman, WA, recitals of late Romantic Lieder in Madison, New Jersey and of Early 20th Century French Music, Longy, Cambridge MA, a world premiere with New York’s Argento Ensemble and her Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah. Upcoming performances include Dream Seminar/Drömseminarium, Sweden, June 2009, and the Carmel Bach Festival, August 2009.
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