Kathryn Wright

Kathryn Wright joined the Conservatory in 2002 and is a professor of voice teaching voice and performance skills. She is also a professor of music at Berklee College of Music and, since 1996, has taught private voice lessons, pedagogy, and performance and musicianship skills, as well as English diction and composition for classical voice. 

Wright, a soprano, has performed 20th-century music and new works, collaborating with many American composers. She sang the title role in Henry Mollicone’s Starbird (Kennedy Center), performed entirely improvised music theater works with the New Music Theater Ensemble (Minneapolis) and has sung premieres in England, Scotland, the Czech Republic, and the United States, including at the avant-garde music theater venue La MaMa (New York City), to New York Times critical acclaim. She has performed leading roles with regional opera companies, including Minnesota Opera, Texas Opera Theater, and the Hollybush Festival. She has appeared with 65 orchestras in the United States and Canada, including the Atlanta, Dallas, San Jose, Syracuse, Buffalo, Utah, St. Louis, Seattle, North Carolina, Charlotte, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Denver, and National symphonies. With San Francisco Symphony, she performed Berg’s Lulu Suite, with Edo de Waart conducting.

Wright’s voice students have won or placed in national and international voice competitions, held opera apprenticeships, sung in American and European opera theaters, and signed with New York artist management.