Kate Soper

Kate Soper, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2017, has won several other prestigious awards and fellowships. She has performed as a piano-based singer/songwriter, a new music soprano, and a theater musician and sound designer. In Soper's own words, her work "explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice." Her singing incorporates unusual tunings inspired by South Indian classical music, and she uses extended techniques in both vocal and instrumental writing. She joined the contemporary music group Wet Ink in 2006; by the mid-2010s the group hosted its own annual festival of new American music in New York. ~ James Manheim