Katherine Eberle
Professor
Voice
Phone: (319) 335-1675
Office: 144 CSM5
k-eberle-fink@uiowa.edu

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Katherine Eberle

Katherine Eberle is an active and versatile mezzo-soprano soloist. Her career includes a wide array of professional and collegiate engagements in both the United States and abroad. She specializes in oratorio, chamber music, art song, and opera.

In the past 10 years Eberle has performed in more than 45 professional engagements with orchestras, choral organizations, and chamber music groups. Concert credits include solo performances with the symphonies of Detroit, Lansing, and Saginaw (Michigan) and Atlanta, Macon, Rome, and Valdosta (Georgia). She has sung in master class recitals at the 'sHertogenbosch International Vocal competition in the Netherlands, the Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel, California, and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. In opera, she has performed the roles of Julia Child in Bon Appetit, Joan of Arc in Jehanne de Lorraine, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring, Dame Quickly in Falstaff, and the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Eberle has appeared at the Academy of the West Opera, Santa Barbara, California; the Aspen Festival Opera Theatre, Aspen, Colorado; and the Opera de Lille, France.

Eberle made her New York debut at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall in 1994. She has given over 50 solo recitals as a guest artist in 18 states and in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Korea, Peru, St. John and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Trinidad, and Tobago. She served as an Artistic Ambassador for the United States State Department in 1994 and 1995.

Eberle's extensive performing schedule has not deterred her active work as a clinician and master class teacher. Since 1990 she has given 17 college-level master classes in 10 states as well as in Argentina, Korea, Peru, and most recently Brazil. Another 16 high school-level vocal workshops in Iowa have introduced young, aspiring artists to her pedagogical ideas. The past four summers she has given master classes at The University of Iowa All State Music Camp for singers. She also taught three summer sessions for the Evening and Weekend College at The University of Iowa where the focus was on methods of teaching vocal technique, style, diction, and repertoire to high school singers. In 2002 Eberle returned as guest lecturer at the Summer Vocology Institute at the National Center for Voice and Speech at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Ms. Eberle's competitions and vocal awards include honors from the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Atlanta Pro-Mozart Society, and the University of Michigan. At The Universities of Georgia and Iowa she was awarded a Lilly Fellow Grant in 1989, and an Instruction Innovation Award in 2002 for her research on teaching with video camera. She was also awarded a Sarah Moss Grant in 1990 for her study of opera and art song at the Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.

She was the State President of the National Association of Teachers of Singing from 1998 to 2000, and has adjudicated for the past 20 years at various vocal competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Eberle has earned degrees from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory (BME), The University of Cincinnati (MM), and The University of Michigan (DMA), where she studied under Beverly Rinaldi. Her academic expertise has led to invitations to serve as guest voice instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Ohio (1977), and at Chennam University in Kwangju, Korea (1995). She is currently a Professor at The University of Iowa, where she chaired the School of Music Voice Area from 1998 to 2000. Previously she taught at The University of Georgia School of Music for five years, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Camp for seven years.

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