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In addition to frequent appearances with the New Mexico
Symphony, Miss Clawson has been guest soloist with the Symphony
Orchestras of Dayton, Evansville, Grand Rapids, Midland, North
Arkansas, Sacramento, San Juan, Santa Fe and Syracuse, among
others, as well as the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Calvin College
Oratorio Society and the Orchestra of San Antonio. Her opera credits
include the Banff Festival of the Arts, The Dallas Opera, The Santa Fe
Opera, New England Lyric Operetta Inc., Four Corners Opera, Dallas
Lyric Opera, Southwest Opera and Theater Basel. She presented the
World Premiere of Lanham Deal's Weather Songs at the Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival accompanied by Janos Starker, has recorded De
Falla's El Amor Brujo for a recent United States tour by Maria Benitez'
Teatro Flamenco and sung the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music with
Debby Boone across America and Japan. She made her New York debut
at Lincoln Center as soloist in A Herbert Centennial with The Little
Orchestra Society with whom she later starred in a rare performance of
Herbert's Cyrano de Bergerac and on several occasions as the Mother in
Amahl and the NIght Visitors in their annual fully-staged production
of the Menotti classic at Avery Fisher Hall
Kathleen Clawson received her training at the Curtis Institue of Music in Phildelphia,
the University of Southern California and the University of New Mexico and participated
in the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera and the Banff Centre Fine Arts Opera
Program. She was a Metropolitan Opera Auditions National Finalist and won the Dewar’s
Profiles in Performance Award.
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