Upcoming Performances
- 09/24/10 - 09/26/10 NYS Baroque in Syracuse/Ithaca/Elmira at St David’s Episcopal Church
- 09/29/10 Evolution Music Series in Baltimore at An Die Musik
- 10/23/10 - 10/24/10 Bach Sinfonia in Silver Spring, MD at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College
- 11/13/10 - 11/14/10 Vivre Musicale in Baltimore and Washington D.C. at TBA
- 12/06/10 Evolution Music Series in Baltimore at An Die Musik
About the Artist
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Praised for her “warm alto sound” by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and voice of “sweet clarity” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, mezzo-soprano Kristen Dubenion-Smith enjoys an active performance career in oratorio, opera and recital where she specializes in music of the renaissance and baroque eras. A native of Michigan, she is a graduate of Alma College in Michigan as well as the Peabody Conservatory of Baltimore, Maryland.
Recent engagements include performances with the Catacoustic Consort of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Magnificat of San Francisco, the Berkeley Early Music Exhibition, the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Bach and Baroque Ensemble of Pittsburgh, the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble, the Peabody Consort and Baltimore’s Shakespeare Festival.
As an operatic soloist, Ms. Dubenion-Smith has performed more than a dozen opera roles in Baltimore, Washington D.C, Chicago, New York City, Bloomington, Indianapolis and Princeton with the New Jersey Opera Theater and American Opera Theater. Some of her more notable roles have included Endimione in La Calisto, Hecuba in La Didone and Cupid in Venus and Adonis with American Opera Theater, Humility in Ordo Virtutum with the Peabody Early Music Department, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Peabody Opera Outreach and La Baronne in Chérubin with New Jersey Opera Theater.