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| Cathleen Kenny, award-winning mezzo-soprano, was born in Jackson Hole, WY to professional musical parents; her mother was a violist, her father a French horn player, both parents achieving major symphonic orchestral careers. Raised in Quebec, Canada, New York City, Maracaibo, Venezuela, and Frankfurt and Heidelberg, Germany, Cathleen learned her love of classical music and performance from them. Earning both Master and Bachelor degrees in vocal performance with summa cum laude honors, it was while in her graduate vocal studies that she came upon the idea of forming her own singing business. With a background of fluency in five languages, a mezzo-soprano voice capable of singing a wide range of repertoire, a strong classical music grounding since birth, vocal performance degrees, gymnastic, ballet, tap, jazz, modern and ballroom dance experience as well as a family of musicians and performers extending back four generations, music and performing were a natural choice for her career. |
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Recently performing "Princess Marghanza"in El Capitan by Sousa, for which Christopher Potter of the Ann Arbor News wrote "Cathleen Kenny raged mightily as Don Medigua's fire-breathing wife..." She has also performed "Orlovsky" in Die Fledermaus, "Martha" in Faust, "Berta" in The Barber of Seville, the role of the "Impresario" from Mozart's The Impresario, "Zulma" in The Italian Girl in Algiers, "The Goddess of Virtue" in The Coronation of Poppea, and "Olga" in The Merry Widow. As the 1999 Mable Henderson Foundation Foreign Grant winner, she made her Italian opera debut as "Lucilla" in Rossini's La scala di seta at the Teatro Pacini in Pescia, Italy. Along with her MezzoVoce act, her career as a professional solo opera and concert singer has taken her to perform in operas and solo concerts in California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Washington D.C., China, Japan, Austria, France, Germany and Italy. |
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| From Mu Phi Epsilon she was awarded the 1999 Mikanna Clark Taurman National Graduate Voice Award, and served three years as university chapter president. During her Master's education Cathleen was awarded the prestigious annual Provost's Medal Of Excellence Award, The Barton Award, a graduate assistanceship, and served as Graduate Student Representative on the Graduate Council committee. As president of the Epsilon Lambda chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, Cathleen personally instigated three new concert series, including bi-annual galas, a president's concert, and annual benefit concerts. Performing in all chapter events during her three-year presidency, she was able to build the chapter membership to its highest attendance in its 50-year history. |
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| Besides her skills as a pianist and accompanist, Cathleen is also an avid harpsichord player and plans to build her own instrument in the near future. As member of the wildly popular Shabbat Sisters Trio at Temple Beth Emeth, Cathleen also loves to read British Detective novels, write short stories, speed-walk, swim, shop at H&M, wander on ocean beaches, travel on Goofy adventures with her mother, and search the ends of the earth for the finest piece of cake (Cafe Fauchon in Paris so far has the best). |
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With an extensive range of performance experience, solid musical foundation, dance, musical theatre and acting training, language fluency, devotion, hard work, love of performing and singing, her desire to share the beauty of music with the world, and a strong commitment to an art form she holds dear, Cathleen brings unique, varied and an exciting range of experiences to the entertainment world and MezzoVoce, devotedly making this unique one-woman singing act a major artistic success of the twenty-first century. |
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