Katherine Clifford

• Queens Summer Vocal Institute 2024
• Schmidt Vocal Institute 2022
• YoungArts 2022 Merit Award
• NATS National Student Auditions Semi-Finalist in Upper High School Classical Treble Voice
• Schmidt Vocal Competition Finalist and Encouragement Award Winner in Boston Region
• Washington National Opera Institute 2021

Katherine Clifford is a full-lyric soprano from Burlington, Massachusetts. She is a current undergraduate student studying Vocal Performance at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montréal, under the tutelage of Dominique Labelle and Dana Nigrim. Additionally, she is an alum of Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts.

Katherine has most recently performed with the Queens Summer Vocal Institute’s Opera Division, portraying the role of Suor Genovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, as well as covering Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. She has also performed with Walnut Hill Opera, singing the title role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, and the roles of The King and Rose One in an abridged film adaptation of The Little Prince by Rachel Portman, which was awarded second place in the National Opera Association Production Competition. She has also appeared in numerous theatre productions, including Paulette Buonafonte in Legally Blonde, Chorus Creon in Antigone, Emily Hobbs in Elf: The Musical, and Mrs. Mayor in Greater Boston Stage Company’s Seussical. She has also performed in the Summer Institute for the Vocal Arts’ 2019 and 2020 seasons in their productions of Songs for a New World, Rent, and Into the Woods.

Along with performing in stage productions, Katherine has competed in several national competitions. She currently holds a YoungArts 2022 Merit Award, Finalist and Encouragement Awards in the Boston Schmidt Vocal Competition, and recognition as a Semi-Finalist in the NATS National Student Auditions Upper High School Classical Treble Voice cohort. She has also sung with the Schmidt Vocal Institute and the Washington National Opera Institute.

Katherine has been fortunate enough grow from the guidance of renowned musicians, such as Teresa Winner Blume, Elaine Smith-Purcell, and Erica Washburn. She continues to perform across the United States and Canada, singing in some of North America’s greatest halls, such as the Maison Symphonique de Montréal, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, and Boston’s Symphony Hall.