Performance Resume for Katherine L. Bryant

KATHERINE L. BRYANT
Mezzo-Soprano
klbryant@attbi.com

STAGE

ROLES

Little Buttercup: HMS Pinafore, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 2001.
Soloist ("I Read") and trio ("You Could Drive a Person Crazy"), "Simply Sondheim" (revue), 2000.
Mary Lennox: The Secret Garden (concert performance), MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 2000.
Queen of the Fairies: Iolanthe, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 1999.
Little Buttercup: HMS Pinafore (concert performance), The 2nd Great Gilbert and Sullivan Sing Out!, Rockville, Maryland, 1998
Jack's Mother: Into the Woods, Emmanuel College Theater Guild, 1998
Little Buttercup: HMS Pinafore (semi-staged production), Spontaneous Savoyards, 1998
Duchess of Plaza-Toro, The Gondoliers: Concert of Gilbert & Sullivan selections, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 1997
Athena Soap spokeslady: Ruddigore intermission feature, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 1997
Dame Carruthers: Yeomen of the Guard, Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 1995
Chauffeur/Aunt Ermyntrude/Italian Cook: Nymph Errant, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, 1990

ENSEMBLES

The Grand Duke, 2001: MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players
Iolanthe: The Sudbury Savoyards, Sudbury, MA, 1999
The Pirates of Penzance: The Footlight Club, Jamaica Plain, MA, 1998
Trial By Jury, 1998: MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players
The Christmas Revels, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996
Ruddigore, 1990: Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players

PROFESSIONAL

Solo recital, "Sly Morsels: Songs of Love and Mischief," October 2000.
Soloist and ensemble, Celtic Roads, compact disc on Revels Records. Released September 1998.
Soloist, VNA Hospice Memorial Service, 1999-2002.

BACKSTAGE AND ACCOMPANYING

Vocal Director, The Gondoliers, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, spring 2002
Choreographer, HMS Pinafore, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 2001
Music Director/Performance Pianist, "Highlights from Musicals," 2000
Performance Pianist, The Zoo, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, 2001
Rehearsal pianist, assorted productions, MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players

LITURGICAL

Christ Church (Episcopal), Cambridge, Massachusetts
Solos:

"Ain't-a That Good News?," spiritual
"Bless the Lord, O My Soul," M. Ippolitov-Ivanov
"The Call," R. Vaughan Williams
"How Can I Keep from Singing?" (trad., arr. Enya, N. Ryan, R. Ryan)
"Magnificat" and "Nunc Dimitis," William Byrd
"Magnificat," Taize chant (arr. James Armstrong)
"O Rest in the Lord," from Elijah, Mendelssohn
"Qui sedes ad dexteram patris," from Gloria, Vivaldi
"Somebody's Callin' My Name," spiritual
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," spiritual
"This Is the Day," Taize chant (duet)
"Ubi Caritas," Taize chant
Cantor for service music and psalms

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

VOCAL TRAINING

Private study with Eileen St. David, 1996-present.

GENERAL EDUCATION

B.A. magna cum laude in History and Science, 1992, and M.A. in History of Science, 1996, Harvard University.

Updated February 27, 2002.