Katherine Wiswell is a wonderful and accomplished lyric mezzo-soprano who has sung a wide range of both operatic and concert performances in the New York Metropolitan area. Ms. Wiswell was pleased to recently make her international debut in Berlin, Germany as Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro under the baton of Maestro Peter Leonard and the stage direction of Nina Brazier with the esteemed Berlin Opernfest. ThePrickle – Smart Arts Reviews said of Ms. Wiswell in that performance: “Katherine Wiswell’s Marcellina was particularly adept at merging technical mastery with truth in storytelling. A veritable trove of young operatic talent who impressed by tackling the mammoth production head-on.”

Ms. Wiswell’s versatility is well evident by the many roles she has performed including: Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), La Principessa (Suor Angelica), Annina and Flora (La Traviata), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Mallika (Lakme), Nutrice and Valetto in (L’incoronazione di Poppea), and Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor), amongst others.

Ms. Wiswell shows herself equally versatile in her concert repertoire. She was the mezzo soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in David Geffin Hall at Lincoln Center. She has also performed the mezzo solos in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominos, Mozart’s Requiem and Regina Coeli, and in Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

A notable concert credit was having the honor to sing backup vocals for Josh Grobin in several of his NYC tours.

Although Ms. Wiswell is a current resident of New York City, she is a proud native of rural upstate New York where she was raised on a small dairy farm. She holds a Master of Arts in Classical Voice Performance from Queens College in NYC and earned her Bachelor of Music from Nyack College, also in New York. Ms. Wiswell studies with internationally acclaimed soprano, Shelley Jameson.