In this episode we will be interviewing a Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, a highly regarded concert soloist, well known for her interpretation of the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Kathleen is the author of a new anthology of Swedish art song, Romanser: 25 Swedish Art Songs with Guide to Lyric Diction.
Kathleen has been a featured singer with many music festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Britten-Pears Institute, and the Tanglewood Music Festival and has performed with many prominent conductors, including James Conlon, Kent Nagano, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Oliver Knussen. Kathleen has been a frequent soloist with the Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music Society of Los Angeles, with whom she has garnered critical acclaim for her performances. Kathleen is a Fulbright senior scholar and an American Scandinavian Foundation grantee. She is a frequent master clinician for some of the country’s premiere young artist programs and universities, including Songfest, Tanglewood, University of Southern California, and Manhattan School of Music. She has written a number of articles for the Journal of Singing and Classical Singer magazine and is the editor of the National Opera Association’s newsletter, Notes. Upcoming performances include concerts in Indiana, California, New York, Cambodia, and Sweden.