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 Kathleen Roland is active as a soloist in the realms of
opera and orchestral music. A featured singer with many music
festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Britten-Pears
Institute in England, where she sang with conductor Oliver Knussen,
the Tanglewood (where she was a Fellow in 1992 and 1993) and
Cumberland Music festivals, Miss Roland has also been heard on the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella series and the Los Angeles
County Museum Sundays at Four concert series. The singer has sung
with many notable conductors, including Reinbert de Leeuw, Oliver
Knussen and Kent Nagano. Her operatic credits include the roles of
Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and Giulietta in Tales of Hoffmann.
Ms. Roland has been a lecturing professor of voice on the faculty
of the University of Southern California, where she has been a
frequent soloist with the USC Contemporary Music Ensemble. Ms. Roland
has been a featured soloist with the acclaimed Southwest Chamber
Music Society of Los Angeles, with whom she has garnered critical
praise for her performance of music of the 20th century. She has sung
as well many times, to critical acclaim, with Long Beach Opera and
the Pacific Serenades Chamber Music series. Recent performances
include concerts in 2000 and 2001 with the Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival, concerts in Stockholm of American music, and the premiere
in Los Angeles of Kurt Weill's The Eternal Road with the Los Angeles
Jewish Symphony.
She has recently been awarded an American-Scandinavian Foundation
grant, allowing her to live in Stockholm during the spring of 2002,
where the soprano was a guest artist/teacher at the Royal
Conservatory in Stockholm, performing concerts of both American and
Swedish contemporary music. The soprano was a featured soloist with
Southwest Chamber Music during their 2002-2003 season, performing
four concerts with the organization. Ms. Roland may be heard on a
recently recorded CD of the music of American composer Libby Larsen
with pianist Katarina Strom-Harg. She holds a Doctorate of Musical
Arts in vocal performance from the University of Southern California,
and is a member of the music faculty at Pepperdine University in
Malibu, California.
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