The American mezzzo-soprano, Catharine Cloutier, obtained her degree in Music Education from the University of Maine in Orono, where she studied with Francis John Vogt and performed in many ensembles including the University of Maine Singers and Orono’s chamber choir, Euphony. She also served as director of Renaissance, the University’s premier women’s a cappella group. She obtained her Master’s degree in Historical Performance from the Longy School of Music, where she studied with Ryan Turner. At Longy, she has been a part of many performances, including soloist in Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, with the Longy Conservatory Orchestra & Choir, programs of medieval & early American music with the newly formed Calyx Quartet, and four Boston Camerata productions, including "Tristan & Iseult: A Medieval Romance in Poetry and Music" as Iseult of the White Hands.
Catharine Cloutier has toured New England, New York, Ireland, and the UK with her ensembles, and performs regularly with the Somerset Consort and Blue Hill Bach, in which she was the Marville Young Artist Fellow for Blue Hill Bach's 2017 summer festival and performed as Apollo in George Frideric Handel’s Terpsicore and Dido in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. She recently performed at Collins Center for the Arts as soloist in G.F. Handel’s Messiah and in the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert Series with her ensemble, the 415 Consort. |