KERRY GINGER, MEZZO-SOPRANO

Kerry Ginger, mezzo soprano, is active nationally as a performer, clinician, voice pedagogue, and scholar. Currently Assistant Professor of Voice at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, Dr. Ginger has appeared as a soloist with the Chattanooga Symphony, Music in the Mountains, The Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, Phoenix Opera, Cal Poly Bach Week, Mid-Columbia Mastersingers, and Quintessence. An avid choral artist, she performs with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Kinnara, and True Concord Voices and Orchestra. Kerry appears on Grammy Award-winning recordings by the Phoenix Chorale and True and has written liner notes for Albany Records. She maintains an active portfolio of recitals, oratorio, and vocal music research, specializing in twentieth-century music by women. Kerry also helms a professional quartet, Element, which performs dynamic historical and contemporary vocal chamber music. Kerry earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Voice and Master of Music in Opera Performance at Arizona State University. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she now resides in beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee.