Other roles include Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Hero (L’Egisto) and Yum-Yum (The Mikado). She has performed with West Bay Opera in Dido and Aeneas and the role of Peri in Schumann’s Oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri as the guest soprano at the University of the Pacific’s 200th Birthday Celebration of Schumann. In 2011, she attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria where she specialized in operetta. She also covered Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with ViVace Opera. In 2012, she played Papagena in The Magic Flute at the Astoria Music Festival in Oregon.

She has sung the roles of the Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel) with Solo Opera Company in 2015, Gretel (Hansel und Gretel) with the Portland Summer Opera Workshop in June 2013 and also the role of Despina (Cosi fan tutte) with ViVAce Opera in July 2013. She also sang in their 2013/2014 season for their productions of Mephistopheles (September/October 2013) and in The Verdi Requiem (October 2013). She previously performed with SF Opera in their 2014/2015 season for their productions of Les Troyens (June/July 2015) and in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (November/December 2015). Katie performed in the chorus for their productions of La Boheme (June 2017), Turandot (September & December 2017), Manon (November/ĭecember 2017), Don Carlos (June 2016), Andreas Chénier (September 2016) and Aida (November/December 2016). Katie has recently been singing with the San Francisco Opera Chorus. Her favorite role was as “Yum-Yum” in The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Katie studied with Daniel Ebbers and Barbara Paver while she attended UOP. Katie is currently a student of Catherine Cook, mezzo-soprano for the San Francisco Opera and voice teacher at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She started studying privately with Lenore Turner-Heinson when she was 12.

Katie was born and raised in Woodland, CA and graduated from Woodland High School in 2002. Katie Carlson-Cartwright received her Master of Music in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2008 and her Bachelor of Music from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in vocal performance in 2006.

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