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Kate Soper is an Associate Professor of Music and the Iva Dee Hiatt Professor at Smith College, where she teaches in the Department of Music within the College of Arts and Sciences. As a composer, vocalist, and performer, she has established herself as a significant figure in contemporary classical music and music theater.
Her research interests focus on the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the continuums of expressivity and intelligibility, and the eclectic landscape of the human voice. Soper's work consistently explores philosophical questions related to epistemology, the nature of reality, and the complex relationship between text and music.
Her recent compositions and performances reveal trends toward increasingly ambitious interdisciplinary projects that blend opera, theater, and philosophical inquiry. Works like 'The Romance of the Rose' and 'The Hunt' demonstrate her growing focus on large-scale music theater that engages with historical and mythological themes while maintaining contemporary relevance.
- Rome Prize Fellow
- Pulitzer Prize Finalist (2017 for IPSA DIXIT)
- Guggenheim Fellow
- American Academy of Arts and Letters awardee
- Koussevitzky Foundation commission recipient
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellow
Soper is a co-director and performing member of Wet Ink, a New York-based new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out adventurous music across aesthetic boundaries. Her performances as a new music soprano have been featured in premieres of works by prominent contemporary composers, and her distinctive vocal style has earned praise as a 'dazzling vocalist' (New Yorker) and been likened to 'Lucille Ball reinterpreted by Linda Blair' (Pitchfork Magazine).
