Dr. Kathryn Barnes-Buroughs 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 GianCarlo 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, and Georgia Southeastern’s Chamber Recital Series. Her continuing professional performance and directing contracts for 2003/2004 include appearances with Choral Society of Pensacola for the Dvorak Stabat Mater, Bach’s Magnificat in D with the 2004 Choral Masterwork Festival in Troy, Alabama, Calhoun County Civic Chorale for Handel’s Messiah, and engagement as stage director of Opera Providence’s premiere of her updated, condensed version of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte for school-age audiences, entitled Everybody Does It: Così! She also appeared with Meridian Symphony Orchestra as featured artist for the symphonic multi-media world premiere of Clark’s Sensation of Music. In October 2003, she served as Convention Artist and Clinician/Adjudicator for the 2003 State Convention of Mississippi Music Teachers Association where she presented her multi-media lecture recital Words of Women.

Named Phi Kappa Phi’s Artist of the Year at University of South Alabama in 2003, Dr. Barnes-Burroughs continues to incorporate technology in her performance and teaching. Kathryn 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. Also a former adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice with the USA Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Dr. Barnes-Burroughs is active in vocal area research. She is currently co-author on three articles in The Journal of Voice and one in Logopedics, Phoniatrics, and Vocology. In addition, she served again on faculty with The Voice Foundation’s Symposium on the Care of the Professional Voice in Philadelphia, presenting current research in June 2004. Committed to lifelong learning and performance research, Kathryn’s most recent expansion of the developing applied vocal program at University of South Alabama was The Voice Institute at USA: An Interdisciplinary Center for Voice and Research. She served as founding executive director for the summer institute, designed for regional professional outreach and service.

Dr. Barnes-Burroughs enjoys her current appointment to the faculty of Texas Tech University School of Music as Assistant Professor of Music in Voice and Opera.