Catherine is an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi, maintains a private voice studio and is an active performer in both classical and musical theater styles. She is a member of the Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio and is a Resident Teaching Artist and Soprano with Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre Education. She has performed as an outreach artist with the Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre Express education touring operas for the past eight seasons, most recently singing the roles of Queen of the Night/Pamina/Papagena in the 2024-2025 production of The Magic Flute. She will be performing in the upcoming new children’s opera Needlefish and Crab for the 2025-2026 season. Other roles include Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Clorinda in Cinderella. She also performed in the Hawaii Opera Theatre Studio 101 productions, “I’ll Be Seeing You” and “A String of Song for Sondheim”. Catherine is a soprano with the Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre chorus, most recently performing in the 2025 production of Carmen. She has contributed to the development of the new musical Higher! Higher! and in October of 2025, she will be premiering the role of The Love Summit. She has been a guest soprano soloist with the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble, Honolulu Chorale, BYUH Chamber Choir, Festa Italiana and at Oahu’s Iolani Palace.

Before moving to Hawaii in 2017, Catherine both performed as a soprano soloist and taught private voice in Phoenix, Arizona. She sang the role of Clorinda in Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola at the Midwest Institute of Opera in 2015, and was invited back in 2016, to sing the role of Sister Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. She also debuted the role of Lady Adela in the 2013 new musical Invincible. She has sung in numerous productions with Arizona State University’s Lyric Opera Theater and as a soloist in her native Chicago.

Catherine is especially passionate about highlighting underrepresented and underperformed historical female composers, supporting living composers, and representing languages other than the standard European canon when developing programs for both herself and her students.

Catherine holds a master’s degree in Vocal Performance from Arizona State University and completed her undergraduate music studies at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology.

Catherine is committed to championing underrepresented female composers, supporting living artists, and widening musical language representation on stage and in the studio.

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