Storytelling through Opera and Musical Theater

Name: Storytelling through Opera and Musical Theater
Start: 2025-10-03T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-03T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 645 Oak St, Jacksonville, FL, United States, Florida 32204

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

645 Oak St, Jacksonville, FL, United States, Florida 32204 | Jacksonville, FL

Join us as we journey through scenes of love, tragedy, heroism, and comedy as Katherine and Rose present arias and songs from beloved operas and Golden Age musical theater. Spanning over 250 years of musical composition, four languages, and 16 different characters, we will experience the vast range of roles and scenes that make up a mezzo-soprano’s repertoire. You will recognize familiar melodies and tunes from operas such as Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, and Romeo and Juliette, as well as musicals including The Music Man, The King and I, and Phantom of the Opera. Prepare to laugh, cry, and be transported to different worlds as we travel through the heights of musical storytelling.
Katherine is a classically trained mezzo-soprano from Jacksonville, Florida. She was most recently a resident artist with the Nashville Opera, where she performed in their main stage production of H.M.S. Pinafore as Cousin Hebe and Buttercup (cover), as well as outreach productions throughout the middle Tennessee area. She also performed with the Jacksonville Symphony as Mércèdes in Carmen. Katherine has performed with the Indianapolis Opera, Toledo Opera, First Coast Opera, Moon River Opera, MIOpera, Maryland Opera Studio, National Orchestral Institute, Florida State Opera, Seagle Music Colony, and Oberlin in Italy. Her other notable roles include Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, Flora in La Traviata, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Kate Julien in Owen Wingrave, Ramiro in La finta giardiniera, and Orphée in Orphée et Euridice. In 2023, she was awarded an Encouragement Award by the Laffont Competition.
Katherine graduated from the University of Maryland with a Master of Music in Opera where she studied with Delores Ziegler. She received a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Florida State University. Katherine is also a classically trained pianist and accomplished Christian singer/songwriter. She has produced original music, which can be found on all streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube. Katherine is an Adjunct Voice Professor at Jacksonville University, as well as the Worship Leader for Chet’s Creek Church in Palm Valley.
Rose Shlyam Grace, a Russian-born pianist, has concertized throughout the United States as a soloist and chamber music recitalist. Miss Grace has been a featured artist and guest presenter at several major conferences, including the International PAMA Symposia, the American Public Health Association Conference, the National MTNA Conferences, the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Oxford, UK, the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Madrid, Spain and the Annual State FSMTA Conferences. Since moving to Jacksonville, Rose Grace has been a frequent guest piano artist with the San Marco Chamber Players and performs extensively with the JSO musicians. After fourteen years of teaching at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, Miss Grace retired as a tenure, Full Professor of Piano to pursue a second career path as a Certified Music Practitioner, providing therapeutic music through Humanities in Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to moving to Florida, Miss Grace served on the piano faculty at the Eastman School of Music as a sabbatical replacement for Professors Barry Snyder and Tony Caramia. During the summers, Miss Grace taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts Music Festival in Michigan, the Blue Lake Music Festival in Michigan, the Castleman Quartet Program in Fredonia, New York, and since 2017, has served as a collaborative coach at the Buffet-Crampon Clarinet Academy in Jacksonville, FL. In 2022, Rose Grace was appointed as an official collaborative artist for the Florida Flute Association Conference held annually in Orlando, Florida. She can be heard on several recording labels, including a CD release on Albany Records entitled, Vibrations of Hope: Music of the New Millennium. She holds a DMA from the Eastman School of Music, an M.A. in Musicology from the University of Chicago, and a B.M from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.