“The composer, singer, and theatre artist Kate Soper is one of the great originals of her generation…”
Kate Soper is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice.
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Chicago Fringe Opera 2026
May 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 2026
A new production of my opera, “Here Be Sirens” will be presented by Chicago Fringe Opera in May 2026.
The Edge Theater, Chicago, IL -
Premiere by Ensemble Télémaque
April 12-20, 2026
My work “Antonin Artaud’s Drama of the Mind (Featuring Paulo Uccello)” will be premiered in a Northeast tour featuring four concerts in MA and NY -
Winsor Music Performance
May 9, 2026
l’ll perform my duo “Chutes and Ladders” with clarinetist Rane Moore on a whimsical program featuring music inspired by games
A Rome Prize fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Kate has been described as “a composer of trenchant, sometimes discomfiting, power." (Boston Globe)
As a performer, she has been praised as a "dazzling vocalist" (New Yorker) and likened to "Lucille Ball reinterpreted by Linda Blair" (Pitchfork Magazine).
Kate is a member of Wet Ink, an NYC-based new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out and promoting innovative music across aesthetic categories.
She is the Iva Dee Hiatt Professor of Music at Smith College.
