voc, *1950 US
Singer / Musician of Classical
Katherine Ciesinski (born October 13, 1950) is an American mezzo-soprano, stage director, and voice professor.Ciesinski was born to Delaware Sports Hall of Famer Roman Ciesinski and Katherine Hansen Ciesinski. She is the sister of opera singer Kristine Ciesinski. Her early studies in piano and voice were locally in Delaware, then at Temple University and the Curtis Institute of Music with Margaret Harshaw and Dino Yannopolous. In 1974, she won the Gramma Fischer Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions and the following year, the WGN Auditions of the Air. In 1977, she took first prize at the Concours International de Chant de Paris by unanimous decision of the jury, while a year earlier having won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition. Her sister Krist
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Pique Dame = The Queen Of Spades | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Mirella Freni, Vladimir Atlantov, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Maureen Forrester, Sergei Leiferkus, Katherine Ciesinski, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | 2016 | Album |
Love Songs And Folk Duets | Katherine Ciesinski, Grayson Hirst, John Ostendorf, Rudolph Palmer - Antonín Dvořák | 1993 | Album |
Regina | Marc Blitzstein - John Mauceri Conducting The Scottish Opera Orchestra And Scottish Opera Chorus, Katherine Ciesinski, Samuel Ramey, Angelina Réaux, Sheri Greenawald | 1992 | Album |
The Vocal Works (1975-1981) | Elliott Carter - Speculum Musicae With Katherine Ciesinski, Jon Garrison, Patrick Mason, Jan Opalach, Christine Schadeberg | 1989 | Album |
Sapho | Charles Gounod, Katherine Ciesinski, Eliane Lublin, Alain Vanzo, Sylvain Cambreling, Alain Munier, Frederic Vassar | 1985 | Album |
Songs By Lili Boulanger And Alma Mahler | Lili Boulanger And Alma Mahler-Werfel - Kristine Ciesinski • Ted Taylor • Katherine Ciesinski | 1983 | Album |
Messiah (Highlights) | Georg Friedrich Händel : Musica Sacra, Richard Westenburg, Judith Blegen, Katherine Ciesinski, John Aler, John Cheek | 1982 | Album |
Lieder | Katherine Ciesinski, John Ostendorf, Rudolph Palmer - Clara Schumann / Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel / Josephine Lang / Pauline Viardot | 1981 | Album |
Sapho | Charles Gounod, Katherine Ciesinski, Eliane Lublin, Alain Vanzo, Sylvain Cambreling, Alain Munier, Frederic Vassar | 1979 | Album |
Three Romances, Op. 94 / Sonata In B♭ / Music From "Songs Without Words" / Six German Songs, Op. 103 | Robert Schumann / Johann Baptist Vanhal / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Louis Spohr - John Russo, Lydia Walton Ignacio, Katherine Ciesinski | 1977 | Album |
Camerata Bariloche | Ned Rorem / Benjamin Britten / Rodolfo Arizaga - Katherine Ciesinski, Andres Spiller | Album |