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Kearstin Brown

Fill-in classical host/announcer

American soprano Kearstin Piper Brown is delighted to begin her 2022-2023 season with a return to Opera in Williamsburg as Musetta in La Bohème. She also headlined First Inversion's Holding on Through Song IV and made her PBS Great Performances debut in Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon’s Intimate Apparel opera at the Lincoln Center Theater.

Kearstin performed at the reopening of the Hochstein Performance Hall in Rochester, will make her debut with Santa Fe Opera in the world premiere of This Little Light of Mine, and debut with the Binghamton Community Orchestra.

Kearstin will make her Carnegie Hall debut singing the music of J.S. Bach and Margaret Bonds with the Cecilia Chorus of New York, and debut with the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Handel's Messiah.

Other engagements in 2023 include a concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, a recital at the Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, a world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and a debut with Opera Parellèle in The Shining.