Performance
As a soloist and ensemble performer, I am passionate about artistry as a means of communication. I specialize in repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries, and actively champion works by women.
Media
Dr. Kerry Ginger, mezzo soprano with Dr. Lisa Campi Walters, piano
Béla Bartók, "Anynyi banat” from Eight Hungarian Folksongs (BB47)
Dr. Kerry Ginger, mezzo soprano with Dr. Zachary Zwahlen, piano
Judith Cloud, "Cassandra" from Botany for the Gods (2016)
Dr. Kerry Ginger, mezzo soprano with Dr. Bernadette Lo, piano
Evelyn Faltis, "Sprich" from Lieder fernen Gedenkens (1939)
Dr. Kerry Ginger, mezzo soprano with Dr. Bernadette Lo, piano
Alma Mahler Werfel, “Lobgesang” from Fünf Gesänge (1924)
Upcoming Performances
May 21, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. EDT: The Modern Woman: Tracing a Viennese Legacy
Join Kerry for a virtual presentation for the Boulanger Initiative, an organization advocating for women and gender-marginalized composers. The lecture explores women's contributions to the vocal music of early twentieth-century Vienna; the challenges which shaped their participation and ongoing reception; and the musical legacy they carried outward to worlds near and far. Register for this free event here!
May 2024: True Concord records Jocelyn Hagen
Kerry joins maestro Eric Holtan and True Concord to record two major works by American composer Jocelyn Hagen: the feminist tour-de-force Here I Am and the iconic Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
June 7-8, 2024: Kinnara at Chorus America
The vocal artists of Kinnara and director J.D. Burnett celebrate Kinnara’s 15th anniversary season with a special concert presentation at the Chorus America national conference in Atlanta, GA.
June 13, 2024: Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Path of Miracles
Three-time GRAMMY-Award nominated ensemble Skylark performs Joby Talbot’s celebrated Path of Miracles at the Hispanic Society of America in New York, NY, under the baton of artistic director Matthew Guard.
June-July 2024: Oregon Bach Festival Chorus
Kerry returns to the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus for her 9th season, performing Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered with Craig Hella Johnson, as well as Mozart’s C-minor Mass and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with Jos van Veldhoven.
July 14-August 3, 2024: Santa Fe Desert Chorale Summer Festival
The voices of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale assemble under maestro Joshua Habermann for three eclectic programs, community outreach, a Gala event, and more. Visit the Desert Chorale to learn more about Songs of the Americas, Out of the World, and The Great Romantics!
October 11-12, 2024: French Masters with True Concord and Phoenix Chorale
Kerry reunites with two groups that shaped her ensemble career in a combined concert of Duruflé and Martin. With Christopher Gabbitas and the Phoenix Chorale, Eric Holtan and True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and Johnathan Vaughn, organ.
November 2024: Voice Recital in Oaxaca, MX
Kerry joins bass-baritone Dr. Mario Vazquez Morillas and pianist Ron Guthrie for a recital of art song at the Universidad Autónoma “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico.
December 2024: Santa Fe Desert Chorale Winter Festival
January 17-19, 2025: True Concord: Handel and Vivaldi
March 2025: Santa Fe Desert Chorale at the National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association
Recent Engagements
April 5-7, 2024: True Concord Voices and Orchestra: Poulenc and Bernstein
Kerry returns to the Grammy-nominated ensemble of True Concord for two treasures of the twentieth-century repertoire, Poulenc’s Gloria and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.
December 2023: Santa Fe Desert Chorale Winter Festival
Kerry returns to the acclaimed Santa Fe Desert Chorale for seasonal performances of Candlelight Carols.
November 2, 2023: Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
Kerry joins the Bach Vocal Artists and conductor John V. Sinclair as a soloist and chorister in Orlando, FL for a performance of Handel’s Roman Vespers of 1707.
October 19, 2023: Element Quartet at UAH Constellation Series
The all-faculty Element Ensemble returns to the University of Alabama at Huntsville for a concert of exquisite vocal chamber music, In Bloom, a program celebrating the natural world in all its splendor.
October 18, 2023: Concert for the Installation of the Vice Chancellor of Sewanee
The University of the South Music faculty and students celebrate the installation of Sewanee’s 18th Vice Chancellor, Robert Pearigen, with an evening of operatic arias and instrumental show-stoppers. 10/18 at 7:30 p.m. in Guerry Auditorium on the Sewanee campus.
October 3-5, 2023: Spivey Hall Choral Fellows at Clayton State University
Kerry joins a quartet of professional singer-clinicians to coach and perform with the next generation of regional high school singers at Atlanta’s storied Spivey Hall. Directed by Dr. Sean Vogt of Clayton State University.
September 30, 2023: Kinnara Ensemble
The vocal artists of Kinnara and director J.D. Burnett celebrate Kinnara’s 15th anniversary season with concerts of beloved ensemble works, including Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir. 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, 9/30 at Emory University’s Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church.
9/10/2023: Chattanooga Bach Choir: Bach and Byrd
Kerry sings Cantata BWV 25 and excerpts from Byrd’s Mass à 4 with David Long and the Chattanooga Bach Choir.
July-August 2023: Santa Fe Desert Chorale Summer Festival
Kerry joins Joshua Habermann and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale for three programs of world-class choral music: The Tudors and the Medici, The American Immigrant Experience, and The Ecstasies Above. Kerry performs solos in Cavalieri’s sixth La Pellegrina intermedio and Tarik O’Reagan’s modern meditation, The Ecstasies Above.
June-July 2023: Oregon Bach Festival
Kerry returns to the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus for her 8th season, performing Talbot’s Path of Miracles with Craig Hella Johnson and the 25th anniversary celebration of Penderecki’s Credo with Anna Sulkowska-Migon.
May 2023: True Concord Voices and Orchestra records Runestad
Kerry joins maestro Eric Holtan and True Concord to record two major works by American composer Jake Runestad: the monumental, Emmy-winning Earth Symphony and Dreams of the Fallen.
4/12/2023: Faculty Recital, Reddit Relationships and Other Love Duets
Kerry joins tenor Erik Gustafson and pianist/composer Doug Harbin in Sewanee, TN to premiere Harbin’s 2020 commissioned work, the Reddit Relationship Cycle, along with romantic duets from the operatic and art song literature.
3/30/2023: Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Requiem
Kerry sings the alto solos in Mozart’s masterwork with the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and chorus at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, TN.
3/2-4/2023: Music By Women Festival
Kerry performs works by early twentieth-century Austrian and German women at the Music By Women Festival, an international symposium on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women.
2/24-26/2023: True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Haydn Creation
True Concord performs Haydn’s great oratorio in venues across Tucson, AZ.
2/10-11/2023: Element Ensemble, Wild Kingdom
Kerry performs an engaging chamber program of vocal quartets with fellow Element founding member Erik Gustafson and colleagues from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, along with student side-by-side guests. Concerts in Sewanee, TN, and Huntsville, AL.
1/27-29/2023: True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Here I Am
True Concord Voices and Orchestra joins composer Jocelyn Hagen, operatic soprano Susanna Phillips, and the Tucson Girls Chorus in a program featuring the world premiere of Hagen’s Here I Am in Tucson, AZ. In partnership with the Tucson Desert Song Festival.
1/22/23: Chattanooga Bach Choir, Cantata 111 and Hassler
Kerry sings Baroque and Renaissance treasures by Bach and Hassler with David Long and the Chattanooga Bach Choir. Sunday, 1/22 at 5:00 at Christ Church Episcopal.
12/10-22: Santa Fe Desert Chorale Winter Festival, A Ceremony of Carols
Kerry joins the Santa Fe Desert Chorale for her seventh winter season (and its 40th year) in Santa Fe, NM for a program including Benjamin Britten’s enchanting work for chorus, soloists, and harp.
12/1: Carmen with Sewanee Symphony Orchestra
Kerry collaborates with Maestro Mario Torres, tenor Erik Gustafson, and Sewanee students and faculty to perform iconic aria scenes from Bizet’s 1875 tour de force, Carmen.
10/20 and 21: Recital, The Modern Woman, and Masterclass at UAH
Kerry performs works by early twentieth-century Austrian and German women composers with pianist Dr. Bernadette Lo (University of the South) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She will also conduct a masterclass with collegiate singers from the UAH Music program.
10/8 and 9: Mid-Columbia Mastersingers, Mozart Requiem
Kerry sings the alto solos in Mozart’s masterwork with the Mid-Columbia Mastersingers in Kennewick, WA.
9/23: College Music Society National Conference
Kerry performs works by early twentieth-century women composers with pianist Doug Harbin (Concordia College) at the CMS National Conference in Long Beach, CA. The performance, entitled The New Woman: Music from Austria and Germany, brings to light women’s participation and leadership in Viennese musical modernism and related milieux.
9/15-17: Kinnara Ensemble, Path of Miracles
Kinnara takes on Joby Talbot’s monumental Path of Miracles, illuminating the experiences and mysticism of the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. In Chattanooga, TN, Greenville, SC, and Atlanta, GA. Preview here.