VOCAL MASTERCLASS with Prof. Kaitrin Cunningham

The Bel Canto Chorus, Nairobi will be hosting a vocal masterclass by Prof. Kaitrin Cunningham from Calpoly University in California, USA.

Requirements to participate:

• You must be a voice major graduate or a prospective in the same field.
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• You must have at least 1 year experience singing solos and arias at university or in any recognized ensembles.

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About Prof. Kaitrin Cunningham

Soprano Kaitrin Cunningham hails from Spokane, Washington. She holds a BA in English literature and French from Seattle University. A love of language and music sparked a passion for opera, and led her to study voice. She earned a BA in music performance with a minor in Italian at Gonzaga University, where she sang the role of Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and won the Gonzaga University Concerto Competition. She completed her Master of Music at the University of Arizona, performing Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and winning the Amelia Rieman Opera Competition.Soprano Kaitrin Cunningham hails from Spokane, Washington. She holds a BA in English literature and French from Seattle University. A love of language and music sparked a passion for opera, and led her to study voice. She earned a BA in music performance with a minor in Italian at Gonzaga University, where she sang the role of Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and won the Gonzaga University Concerto Competition. She completed her Master of Music at the University of Arizona, performing Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and winning the Amelia Rieman Opera Competition.

Upon completing her master’s degree, Kaitrin moved to Europe. As part of La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy, she sang Bianca in La rondine. In the summer of 2014, she moved to Vienna, Austria and made her Viennese debut in the role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro in 2015. As a featured soloist with Sound of Austria and Oper in der Krypta, and a member of the St. Stephen’s Vocal Ensemble, she performed Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, Annina in La traviata, and was the soprano soloist in a number of classical and contemporary masses, including Britten’s Missa Brevis, Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli, Schubert’s Mass in B-flat Major, and Gottfried von Preyer’s Dankmesse.

As a member of the Grammy Award-winning Arnold Schoenberg Chor, she has performed concerts and operas throughout Europe and Asia, including L’opéra royal de Versailles, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, and the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki. Over the course of eight seasons in the Theater an der Wien opera chorus, she premiered fourteen new opera productions and performed numerous small solo roles, including Drittes Mädchen in Werner Egk’s Peer Gynt and Annette in Gottfried von Einem’s Der Besuch der alten Dame.

Kaitrin has shared the stage with such renowned singers as Marlis Petersen, Gerald Finley, and Michael Schade, and has worked with celebrated conductors and directors including René Jacobs, Cornelius Meister, Bertrand de Billy, Peter Konwitschny, Claus Guth, and Keith Warner. 

She currently teaches voice at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California.