Kathryn Louise Lewek graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 2008 with a Master of Music Degree in vocal performance and literature. In 2006, Ms. Lewek earned her Bachelor of Music Degree from Eastman in vocal performance, where she was also awarded the Performance Certificate in Voice. Ms. Lewek made her solo debut on the Eastman Theater stage singing the role of Gretchen in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe's Faust in December 2005. With the Eastman Opera Theater, Ms. Lewek performed the title role in Cendrillon and Giulietta in I Capuleti E I Montecchi. Ms. Lewek was the soprano soloist in Mozart’s C Minor Mass with both the Finger Lakes Choral Festival and the Eastman-Rochester Chorus. She has also performed as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, and has made solo appearances with The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rochester Greece Symphony. During the summers of 2005 and 2006, she toured the Marche and Umbria regions of central Italy singing roles in operas by Bellini and Donizetti.  

In March 2008 Ms. Lewek was named the Grand Prize Winner of the Orpheus National Vocal Competition.  Ms. Lewek recently completed her first solo album, a compilation of art songs by Rochester-based composer Cary Ratcliff, which is set to be released on Albany Records in November, 2008. 

Ms. Lewek resides with her husband in the New York City area, but will return to Rochester this fall to make her professional debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and also to reprise her role as soprano soloist with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra in their annual performance of Handel’s Messiah.  In March, 2009, Ms. Lewek is set to make her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City, as soprano soloist in a Manhattan Concert Productions performance of Mozart's Requiem.