Kathryne Jennings

2005 District Judge

Kathryne Jennings, is an award-winning soprano who has performed in opera, oratorio, and recital throughout the US. She has performed over 20 major opera roles. She has sung with San Francisco Opera's Western
Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera Theatre, Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera Theatre, Greensboro Opera, Whitewater Opera, and Triangle Opera Theatre. In Massachusetts, she sang Norina with the Commonwealth Opera production of Don Pasquale and appeared as Adele in the Boston Aria Guild's staged production of Die Fledermaus.

Ms. Jennings was a prize winner in the Fourth International Vocal Competition of the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York. From 1998-2004, she was Artistic Director of Ocean State Lyric Opera (OSLO), an opera company based in Providence, RI. Ms. Jennings is on the Arts-in-Education roster of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and is Instructor of Voice at Brown University. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, conductor Paul Phillips, and her two daughters, Joanna, (12) and Alanna (3).

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