Kathryn Barnes-Burroughs has enjoyed success in opera, recital, and concert engagements across the country with roles ranging from Santuzza and Azucena to Offenbach’s Grand Duchess. She toured with New York City Opera’s National Company and has performed with New Orleans Opera Association, Hawaii Opera, Anchorage Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Pensacola Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Shreveport Opera, among others. In her career since serving as a Louisiana Opera Intern, she has worked in productions with composers and conductors such as Gian Carlo Menotti, John Corigliano, Imre Pallo, Klauspeter Seibel, and Anton Coppola. Her concert engagements have taken her from the Anchorage Concert Association, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Connecticut Choral Society, to performance as featured artist with Santo Domingo’s Orquesta Sinfónica Nacionál. Recent engagements include multi-media performances at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Rhode Island Chamber Music Series, SUNY Binghamton’s New Music Series, Georgia Southeastern’s Chamber Recital Series, and the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities.

Her continuing contracts include appearances with The Lubbock Chorale’s Messiah; University of Hawaii’s Concert Series in recital; The Cambridge Choral Institute’s Mozart Requiem, Meridian Symphony Orchestra for the title role in Carmen; with the Festival Escuela Superior in Matamoros, Mexico as featured multi-media recitalist and vocal master class clinician; and master class presenter at Houston’s American Festival for the Arts. She recently presented research at the Austrian Voice Institute in Salzburg, serving also as Featured Master Teacher for the Institute’s Seventh International Voice Symposium: On the Mozart Voice, as well as teaching on faculty with the Voice Foundation’s Annual International Symposium in Philadelphia both as a pedagogical researcher and 2006 workshop presenter of: Go with the Flow: the Breath and Beyond, and in 2007: Sing What You Are Saying.

Named the recipient of the 2006 Alumni New Faculty Award for the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University where she served as associate professor of music, Dr. Barnes-Burroughs continues to incorporate technology in her performance and teaching. She earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and has served as Coordinator, Vocal Applied Studies and Director of Opera at the University of South Alabama where she was named the 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Artist of the Year. Also the recipient of the 2007 Van L. Lawrence Fellowship from the Voice Foundation and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, she is now director of Southern Institute for the Performing Voice – A Creative Center for Education and Research – and enjoys her appointment to the Editorial Board of Journal of Voice. Her newly released song cycle The Memory of Splendid Music, can be heard on Contemporary Record Society’s CD: Contemporary Art.