Katie Fowler, mezzo-soprano, has been acclaimed as “lovely of voice and every inch a charmer.” Recent operatic roles include Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana with The Cleveland Opera; Hansel in Hansel and Gretel and Emma Jones in Street Scene, both with Nightingale Opera Theatre; and Stéphano (cover) in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette with the Bar Harbor Music Festival in Bar Harbor, Maine. Ms. Fowler has been featured as Carmen in concert with the Heights Chamber Orchestra, as a soloist in Cleveland Opera Theater’s Opera for All and Opera Up Close, as the alto soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Christmas Oratorio with Kent State University, and in Handel’s Messiah with Bluffton University. She has been an active member of the Cleveland Chamber Choir since its inaugural season in 2015. Katie is co-creator of the cabaret show Musings of a Singing Mother with engagements throughout the Cleveland area in 2019. She completed her Master of Music in Voice Performance at Kent State University. During her tenure at Kent, she was seen as Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Juno/Ino in Semele, Ida in Die Fledermaus, as well as the alto soloist for Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb. Alongside her singing credits, Ms. Fowler is voice faculty at Kent State University, University of Akron, and Aurora School of Music. She resides in Kent, Ohio with her husband and two young daughters.