Katharine Drexler Senior Voice Recital

Senior Voice Recital

Music student, Katharine Drexler presents her Senior Voice Recital.

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Katharine Drexler comes from Bolton, Massachusetts.  She transferred to Andrews with her fiancée just this past year, and has enjoyed taking voice lessons from Ms. Julia Lindsay since then. 

On her senior recital, Katharine will perform, among others, Song to the Moon from Rusalka by AntoninDvorak, Der Knabe und das Immlein by Hugo Wolf, and two English Folk Songs titled Scarbourough Fair and Mairi’s Wedding arrainged for voice, violin, and Piano by her mother Dr. Connie R. Drexler.

Katharine Drexler grew up in a family of musicians and knew almost from day one that she wanted to be a singer.  Although she had already taken violin lessons for eight years, she began voice lessons at the age of twelve.  By the time she was fifteen, she was studying with renowned opera singer Faith Esham, whom she studied with for the next three and a half years.  Throughout her junior high, high school, and into her college years, Katharine has toured with her great Aunt Dr. Rittenhouse and the New England Youth Ensemble as a violinist and vocal soloist; visiting such countries as Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, South Africa, Zambia, Batswana, Zimbabwe, England, Germany, Austria, and extensively throughout the United States.  Katharine attended Southern Adventist University for three years where she studied with Dr. Julie Penner before transferring to Andrews University where she now studies with Ms. Julia Lindsay.  Recently, Katharine performed the role of Belle in three productions of “The Stingiest Man in Town” with the Andrews University vocal department.  She was also a finalist in the Andrews University Young Artists competition, and received an honorable mention in Kalamazoo Bach Festival’s 2011 Young Vocalists Competition.  Currently, Katharine is finishing her last semester at Andrews University, and will be graduating in May with a Bachelors of Music with an emphasis on vocal performance.  After that, she plans to marry her fiancée Hal Conley, and begin an accelerated Bachelor of nursing degree, and then pursue a Masters in Voice.  She would love nothing more than to have a regional opera career, performing and singing for the love and joy of it.