Katherine Ciesinski

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Katherine Ciesinski (born October 13, 1950) is an American

stage director
, and voice professor.

Ciesinski was born to Delaware Sports Hall of Famer Roman Ciesinski and Katherine Hansen Ciesinski. She is the sister of opera singer Kristine Ciesinski (1952-2018). Her early studies in piano and voice were locally in Delaware, then at Temple University and the Curtis Institute of Music with Margaret Harshaw and Dino Yannopolous. In 1974, she won the Gramma Fischer Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the following year, the WGN Auditions of the Air. In 1977, she took first prize at the Concours International de Chant de Paris by unanimous decision of the jury, while a year earlier having won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition. Her sister Kristine won the same prize the following year at the same competition.

Opera

Her professional orchestra debut was at 16, but her first professional operatic successes came at the

Covent Garden, with Scottish Opera, and with the Paris, San Francisco, Brussels, Canadian, Santa Fe, Frankfurt, Dallas, Houston Grand, Stuttgart, St. Louis, and Chicago Lyric Operas. She performed Countess Geschwitz in the American premiere of the completed three-act version of Lulu at Santa Fe Opera
. She also portrayed the role of Cecilia March in the world premiere of
Grammy Award
for Best Opera in 2018.

Concerts and recitals

Ciesinski has also performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Symphonies of Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Houston and Toronto; and in Europe, with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, L'

Ensemble InterContemporain
in Paris.

Teaching

One of the few master performers to also become a master teacher, her visiting lectures and

New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera. She makes her home in Rochester, New York with the American conductor Mark Powell and is the Martin E. and Corazon D. Sanders Professor of Voice at the Eastman School of Music
.

Selected recordings

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