2024

16th March @ 4:00PM Eastern Daylight Time

SUORE Project

has been selected to present two interpretations of nun composer Emahoy Gebru’s compositions

for Ethiopia’s Piano Queen, an online celebration hosted by

the Emahoy Music Foundation

                        


11th February @ 3:00PM

Stony Brook University’s BAROQUE SUNDAYS AT THREE presents

SUORE Project

The ecstatic and the divine: Music from convents

Staller Center Recital Hall

Stony Brook, NY

Information here



2023 WORLD PREMIERE!

Read The Hunt’s rave reviews!

The New York Times

The Wall Street Journal

Parterre Box

Oberon’s Grove

Classical Voice North America

Columbia Spectator

12 & 14 October @ 8:00PM

MILLER THEATRE presents

THE HUNT

by Kate Soper

Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway

NYC

Get Tickets here!

2023

August

Artists’ Residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute

SUORE Project

Avaloch, NH

2023

8th, 9th & 10th August @ 7:30PM

SoHIP Summer Concert Series presents

SUORE Project

The ecstatic and the divine: Music from convents

Three Boston-Area Concerts

Tuesday in Lincoln / Wednesday in Andover / Thursday in Boston

Get tickets

2022-2023

I am a Fulbright Fellow on joint-country research in Greece and Turkey

Read more at Fulbright Greece’s website

Read more at Indiana University website

Read my essay in the Turkish Fulbright Commission’s Spring Newsletter

2023

23 May 16:30 Workshop, 18:30 Concert

The “Days of Greek Music” Pearl Festival presents

Osia Kassia: a concert and dramatization on the works and life of St. Kassia

Prokopio Polydnamous Church Center

of the I.M. of Kalamaria and Nea Krini

Thesssaloniki GREECE




2023

14 January 19:00

Concert:

T’Αηδόνια της Ανατολής και τα Πουλιά της Δύσης

(Τhe Nightingales of the East and the Birds of the West)

Cultural Center of the Holy Church Laodigitria

Thesssaloniki GREECE

2022

June

Artists’ Residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute

SUORE Project

Avaloch, NH


30 March 2:30PM (GMT +3)

The Conservatory of Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi presents

Reimagining Kassia

Istanbul, Turkey

For the Zoom Link, click “tıklayınız” at the bottom of this page after clicking here



25 January @ 5PM

The Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University-Bloomington presents

Tracing Kassia

Grand Hall of the Cook Center for Arts and Humanities in Maxwell Hall

Maxwell 101

Bloomington IN


TBA (World premiere postponed)

WET INK Ensemble presents Kate Soper’s new opera The Romance of the Rose (Lady Reason)

Click here for updates.



2019

MERCURY ARTS presents Judgment of Paris 1701: opera burlesque (brett as Pallas Athena)

a comic musical

filmed in BASEL Switzerland


2019

30 March @ 2PM

SIREN BAROQUE presents

The Life of Antonia Bembo: Woman in Exile

Olive Free Library

4033 NY-28A

West Shokan NY



2019

28 March @ 6PM

SIREN BAROQUE presents

The Life of Antonia Bembo: Woman in Exile

The Little Theatre

St John’s University

Queens NY

2018

9 April @ 6pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Suore: Rare music from the convents of 17th-century Europe

St Thomas More Church, St John's University

8000 Utopia Parkway

Queens NY

Click here for reservations and parking information. 

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2018

6 January @ 2PM

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Cold Genius: A Baroque Winter

Olive Free Library

4033 NY-28A

West Shokan NY

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2017

16 November

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Übergang: The Passage from Baroque to Classical

St John’s Memorial Episcopal Church

Ellenville NY

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2017

11 September @ 8PM

SEMMELWEIS

Concert premiere of this new opera by Ray Lustig

Semmelweis is a haunting and powerful new work performed by nine singers and an ensemble. The composition is inspired by the tragic, true story of visionary 19th-century Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), who discovered the simple antiseptic solution to overcoming devastating childbed fever epidemics through hand washing, but was misunderstood and died alone in an asylum. The upcoming 200th anniversary of his birth presents a moment to reflect on his ever-timely story of truths too hard to bear.

The National Arts Club

15 Gramercy Park South

NYC

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2017

25 July

BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS presents

A Night at Niblo’s Garden

an immersive 19th-century pleasure garden and theater

Green-Wood Historic Cemetery

Brooklyn NY



2017

June

SIREN BAROQUE presents

The Life of Antonia Bembo: Woman in Exile

Queen of the Hudson Concert Series

Newburg NY

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2017

9 & 16 May @ 7pm

St Michael's Church

99th and Amsterdam

NYC

&

15 June @ noon

Gordon Chapel, Old South Church

645 Boylston St

BOSTON, Mass

BEMF Fringe Event

New York Continuo Collective presents The Zarzuela Project Concert

A staged production of scenes from Spanish Renaissance and Baroque musical theater (zarzuelas),

including Sebastian Durón and Juan de Navas’ Apolo y Dafne (c. 1705), Juan Hidalgo’s Celos aun del

aire matan (c.1660), and Durón’s, La Selva Encantada de Amor. Directed by Grant Herreid; Paul

Shipper, stage director.

FREE ADMISSION

2017

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Suore: Rare music from the convents of 17th-century Europe

(Music by Sisters for Sisters)

The Chapel of St Teresa’s

Motherhouse of the Carmelite Sisters

Germantown NY

2017

28 and 29 April @ 9pm

MERCURY ARTS presents

Judgment of Paris Opera-Burlesque

A Baroque opera in English tongue and modern disguise, featuring the music of Daniel Purcell,

John Eccles and John Weldon

Sääli zum goldenen Fass

Hammerstrasse 108

BASEL Switzerland

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2017

11 February @ 9pm

Carnegie Hall’s La Serenissima Festival

featuring

COMPANY XIV and Dances of Vice: Venetian Valentine Masquerade

Grand Prospect Hall

263 Prospect Ave

Brooklyn NY

2017

7 January 1:00pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Suore: Rare music from the convents of 17th-century Europe

The Firehouse Space

246 Frost Street

Brooklyn NY 11211

2017

5 January 7:00pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Suore: Rare music from the convents of 17th-century Europe

Olive Free Library

4033 NY-28A

West Shokan NY 12494

2016

4 October @ 8pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents

BOCCHERINI: Chamber and Vocal Works

featuring cellist Elinor Frey

Second Presbyterian Church

6 West 96th St

NYC

2016

18 September @ 2:30pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents

In Grief and Gladness

Greenwich House Music School

46 Barrow St

NYC

2016

28 & 29 April @ 9pm

MERCURY ARTS, in collaboration with MORNINGSIDE OPERA, presents

The Judgment of Paris

a baroque opera in English tongue & modern disguise featuring the music of Daniel PURCELL,

John ECCLES, John WELDON

Sääli zum goldenen Fass

Hammerstrasse 108

BASEL Switzerland

 

2016

5 March @ 8pm

End-of-Winter "Die Schöne Müllerin" Party

Join the creators of the OBIE-winning play "Three Pianos" for their now-annual boozy Schubertiad with special guests, in a benefit to support JACK's artistic and community efforts.  This year, the tuneful trio of Rick Burkhardt, dave malloy and Alec Duffy will be delving for the first time into Schubert's song-cycle "Die Schöne Müllerin" ("the beautiful miller girl"), joined by other musical mights, including Justin Hicks, Alaina Ferris, Brent Arnold, Brian McCorkle, Jean Rohe, Amirtha Kidambi, Gelsey Bell, Nick Choksi, Sam Kulik, Meaghan Burke, Ross Karre, Alice Teyssier, Or Matias, Jadele McPherson, Starr Busby, Kim Mayo, Lacy Rose, Catherine Brookman, Ian Axness and Brett Umlauf, who will be offering their own interpretations of songs from the cycle. 

TICKETS: $20 in advance, $25 at the door

JACK

505 1/2 Waverly Ave

Brooklyn NY




2016

4 February @ 7pm

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG

David T. Little & Friends

Kate Soper, Gelsey Bell, Brett Umlauf, Justine Aronson, sopranos

Eve Gigliiotti, mezzo-soprano; Matt Worth, Ted Hearne, baritones 

Michael Barrett, piano; Ayano Ninomiya, Danbi Um, violins

Composers: David T. Little, Colin Read, Kate Soper, Jeff Myers, Ted Hearne

OPERA America's National Opera Center

330 Seventh Ave (at 29th St)

NYC

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2016

16 January @ 12pm

SIREN BAROQUE and Daniel Swenberg present

the music of Antonia Padoani Bembo

St. Peter's Church

619 Lexington Ave (at 54th St)

NYC

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2015-2016

25 November - 17 January

COMPANY XIV presents

Nutcracker Rouge

Minetta Lane Theatre

NYC

2015

22 September - 15 November

COMPANY XIV presents

Cinderella (brett, evil stepsister)

Minetta Lane Theatre

18 Minetta Lane (bt MacDougal and 6th)

NYC

2015

11 May @ 7:30pm

Music Mondays presents

Hearing Voices: Music of Kate Soper

read Zachary Woolfe’s NY Times review

Kate Soper, soprano | Gelsey Bell, soprano | Brett Umlauf, soprano | Erin Lesser, flutes | Ian Antonio, percussion | Joshua Modney, violin

FREE ADMISSION

Advent Lutheran Church / Broadway United Church of Christ

2504 Broadway (at 93rd St)

NYC

Doors open at 6:45pm


2015

16 April @ 5pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents 

An Evening of Music and Art featuring Baroque music by and for women

Paul Robeson Campus Center at Rutgers

350 Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd

Newark NJ



2015

15 March @ 4:30pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents 

Siren Songs: Women of the Baroque Era

Celebrating Women for Women's History Month

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum 
895 Shore Road

Pelham Bay Park

Bronx NY

tickets here:  http://j.mp/BPMMSirenBaroque



2015

19 February @ 1pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Vivaldi’s Fire

at

GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE'S MIDTOWN CONCERT SERIES

St Bartholomew’s Chapel

325 Park Ave (bt 50th and 51st St)

NYC



2015

12 February - 1 March

COMPANY XIV presents

Cendrillon: A Baroque Burlesque Ballet

428 Lafayette St (between Astor Pl. and East 4th)

NYC

Buy tickets HERE



2015

16 January @ 7:30pm and 17 January @ 9:30pm

MORNINGSIDE OPERA and SIREN BAROQUE present

Stabat Mater & La Serva Padrona

a double-feature of Pergolesi's most famous works as you've never seen them before! 2 shows only, Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Visit www.morningsideopera.com for more info.

Alchemical Theater Lab

104 West 14th St

NYC

2014-2015

13 November - 31 January

COMPANY XIV presents

Nutcracker Rouge

428 Lafayette St (between Astor Pl. and East 4th)

NYC

2014

28 October

SIREN BAROQUE presents 

Siren Songs: Women of the Baroque

Presented by St John's University

Long Island NY

 

2014

25 October @ 7pm

SIREN BAROQUE presents

SIREN'S Captives Series

Featuring Christof Huebner & Doug Balliet

and Brandenburg Concerto no.6!

Presented by: Washington Heights Musical Society

Cocktail Reception after performance

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2014

5, 6, 12 & 13 September @ 7:30PM

MORNINGSIDE OPERA presents

HERE BE SIRENS

by Kate Soper

read Steve Smith’s NY Times review

Dixon Place Theater

161A Chrystie St

NYC

(get tickets)

 

2014

2 September - 1 November

COMPANY XIV presents

Rococo Rouge

428 Lafayette St (between Astor Pl. and East 4th)

NYC

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2014

8 June @ 8PM

Syzygy presents

SIREN BAROQUE with Danielle Eva Schwob and The Knells

Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St
NYC
$15 in advance / $20 day of

Information here

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2014

5 June @ 1:15PM

SKID ROCOCO presents

From Pastoral Idylls to Hangovers: Rococo Music from France and Sweden

GEMS (Gotham Early Music Series)

Midtown Concerts

St Bartholomew’s Chapel

325 Park Ave (bt 50th and 51st St)

NYC



2014

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Jordan McClean, composer

The world premiere of Jordan McClean’s PANGRAM

commissioned by SIREN Baroque

Gershwin Hotel, Flatiron

7 E 27th St

NYC



2014

February

SIREN BAROQUE presents

From Courts to Convents: Women All-Stars of the Baroque II

GEMS (Gotham Early Music Series)

Midtown Concerts

St Bartholomew’s Chapel

325 Park Ave (bt 50th and 51st St)

NYC

2013

November

THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM presents

Company XIV at

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

200 Eastern Pkwy

Brooklyn NY 11238

2013

7 October @ 8PM

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Fyer Fyer!

Gershwin Hotel, Flatiron

7 E 27th St

NYC

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2013

COMPANY XIV at

The Harvard Club of New York Foundation’s Masquerade

35 W 44th St bt 5th and 6th Ave

NYC

2013

6 June

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Women All-stars of the Baroque

Boston Early Music Festival Fringe

Boston MA

2013

4 May

SIREN BAROQUE presents

SIREN Captives Series

In His Court featuring Marc Destrubé (violin)

DiMenna Center for Classical Music

450 W 37th St

NYC

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2013

24 February @4:30pm

SKID ROCOCO presents

Music of CM Bellman: a staged musical entertainment

for the book launch of

Karen Engelmann’s The Stockholm Octavo

(“a full deck of piquant pleasures” -Washington Post)

Sponsored by THE AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETY and THE HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS’ CENTER

Sleepy Hollow NY 10591

2013

Poetry in Song: Larry Lockwood Vocal Music

The Tenri Cultural Institute

43A W 13th St

NYC


2013

March

MORNINGSIDE OPERA presents

Dido & Aeneas (Brett Umlauf as Belinda)

featuring SIREN Baroque

Dixon Place Theatre

NYC


2013

14 February

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Women All-stars of the Baroque

NYC


2012

30 November

SIREN BAROQUE presents

The Venice Connection

NYC


2012

November

MORNINGSIDE OPERA presents

¡Figaro! 90210 (brett, producer)

in concert at Dixon Place Theatre

NYC

 


2012

31 October - 9 December

COMPANY XIV presents

La Fête (brett, Madame)

Bond Street Theatre

Brooklyn NY

(halted by Hurricane Sandy)



2012

28 October

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Vivaldi and Friends

NYC



2012

3 August

Art after 5 presents

SIREN BAROQUE featuring Company XIV

Twilight in Arcadia

in tandem with the exhibit

Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Philadelphia PA



2012

May

COMPANY XIV presents

Judge ME Paris (brett, Pallas Athena)

Bond Street Theatre

Brooklyn NY

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2012

27 April

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Counter Culture

Featuring cellist Katie Rietman and Concerto Grossi

Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist

171 MacDougal Street (off 8th bt 5th and 6th Ave)

NYC

2012

March

SIREN BAROQUE presents

From Courts to Convents

Festival de Música Barroca

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico


2012

24 February

SIREN BAROQUE presents

The Course of Love

The Tenri Cultural Institute

43A W 13th St

NYC

2012

MORNINGSIDE OPERA presents

Stabat Mater Fabulosa (brett, soprano)

Dixon Place Theatre

NYC


2011

4 November

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Surround Sound: Early Italian Antiphony

The First Presbyterian Church

124 Henry St

Brooklyn NY



2011

30 October @ 6pm

MORNINGSIDE OPERA presents

MYSTERIEN or, Mysteries of a Barber’s Shop

Morningside Opera pairs the Weimar-era silent film “Mysteries of a Barber’s Shop” (text by Bertolt Brecht) with a klezmer/grunge band,  several pairs of small leather shorts,  and a soprano with a few arias to get off her chest.

Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street (between Bleeker and West 4th)

A/B/C/D to West 4th, 1 to Christopher Street

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2011

Bellman om Bellman

featuring Karl Nyhlin (lute)

Ovanmyra Kulturhus

Sweden





2011

Bellman om Bellman

featuring Karl Nylin (lute)

Musikvalvet Baggen

Svartmangatan 27

Gamla Stan

STOCKHOLM Sweden





2011

February

MORNINGSIDE OPERA presents

Atra, ossia l’Amore Ricordato (brett as “T”)

a new Handel pastiche

Ailey Citigroup Theater

NYC

 



2011

SKID ROCOCO presents

Music of CM Bellman

for the Swedish Women’s Educational Association (SWEA) of New York

Cruise Around the Hudson

NYC





2011

30 August

MORNINGSIDE OPERA presents

Judgment of Paris: A Pasticcio (brett as Athena)

with music of Weldon, Eccles and Daniel Purcell

Jimmy’s #43

NYC





2011

22 March

SIREN BAROQUE presents

Women Superstars of the Baroque Era

Caffe Vivaldi

32 Jones St

NYC





2010

COMPANY XIV presents

Le Cirque Féerique

Bond Street Theatre

Brooklyn NY





2010

Bellman om Bellman

Folkkultur Centrum Hjorthagen

STOCKHOLM Sweden





2010

Columbia University’s Department of Germanic Languages presents

Make Room for Ulla: Women’s Voices in Bellman, a lecture by Brett Umlauf

Deutsches Haus

420 W 116th St (bt Amsterdam and Morningside Dr)

Columbia University

NYC





2010

Bellman om Bellman presents

Barock-Kavalkad: Music for a Summer’s Evening

Gideonsberg Church

Prästkragegatan 1

Västerås, Sweden



2010

Elisa Palomino Spring Collection

(featuring live soundtrack by Brett Umlauf, Shien Lee and Amber Youell)

NY Fashion Week

NYC







2009

21 October @ 9PM (8PM reception)

Manhattan Mermaid, a film by Tristan von Christann

(brett, Queen Dido)

Screening, first sketch at

The National Arts Club

15 Gramercy Park South

NYC

2009-10

COMPANY XIV presents

Snow White

Bond Street Theatre

Brooklyn NY

 

2009

TedX presents

COMPANY XIV

City Winery

155 Varick St

NYC


2009

April

OPERAREPO (now MORNINGSIDE OPERA) presents

Alcide al bivio (brett as Edonide)

a new staging of Hasse's and Metastasio's 1760 allegorical opera Hercules at the Crossroads, a battle between Virtue and Pleasure

Casa Italiana

Columbia University

1161 Amsterdam Ave (bt W 116th and 118th St)

NYC


2009

August

Bellman om Bellman presents

Thirsty I Gaze on My Sun and My Star

featuring Magnus Andersson (lute)

Musikvalvet Baggen

Svartmangatan 27

Gamla Stan

STOCKHOLM Sweden


2009

25 February @ 7PM

Bellman om Bellman presents

Thirsty I Gaze on My Sun and My Star

featuring Daniel Swenberg (lute)

Deutsches Haus

420 W 116th St (bt Amsterdam and Morningside Dr)

Columbia University

NYC