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 several times 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.

This season, Ms. Lewek made her professional debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and reprised her role as soprano soloist in The Rochester Chamber Orchestra’s annual performance of Handel’s Messiah.  

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 was released on Albany Records in December, 2008. 

Ms. Lewek resides with her husband in the New York City area, and is currently preparing the roles of Norina (Donizetti's 'Don Pasquale') and Mignon (Thomas's 'Mignon') for The Music Academy of the West's 2009 summer season directed by Marilyn Horne, in Santa Barbara, CA.