Bio

Since her 1994 New York debut, soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn has dedicated her performance career to presenting contemporary vocal repertoire, premiering and interpreting works of our time, without neglecting the traditional fare. Regarding Norin-Kuehn’s UK premiere of Milton Babbitt’s Du, Phyllis Bryn Julson said, "She puts a little Schubert in her Babbitt, and vice versa."

Norin-Kuehn has performed under the batons of Peter Bay, David Hayes, Aaron Jay Kernis, Oliver Knussen, and been featured throughout the US, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, and Italy with orchestras, ensembles and select artists including Collide-O-Scope, the Emperian Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Singers, pianists Jeffrey Jacob, Margaret Kampmeier, Marilyn Nonken, and Thomas Rosenkranz. She has performed the roles of Pamina, Musetta, Mrs. Gobineau, and Anna Gomez on the opera stage, has been guest artist at the Eastman School of Music and at such venues and festivals as Composers, Inc., June in Buffalo, and the BGSU New Music Festival. Her discography features recordings on the Living Artists, New Focus, Open Space and SEAMUS labels.

A student of the late Todd Duncan, Gershwin’s original Porgy, at the Curtis Institute of Music (Artist Diploma), Norin-Kuehn holds vocal performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music (DMA, MM) and has studied and performed at the Aspen Music Festival, the Britten-Pears School, the Chautauqua Institute, and the Lake Placid Institute. A voice professor for over a three decades, she is currently on the faculty of Heidelberg University, and resides in Sylvania, OH, where she maintains a private studio.

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