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Biography
About Kristin, Briefly
As an Artist and a Professional
Education and Apprenticeship
Acclaimed for her powerful lyric voice, her intensity onstage, and her well-honed vocal technique, Kristin Vogel has been honored in multiple international competitions and is sought for roles that require dramatic passion and sensitive musicality. Originally from Texas, Ms. Vogel now splits her residence between Vienna, Austria, and the
Acclaimed for her powerful lyric voice, her intensity onstage, and her well-honed vocal technique, Kristin Vogel has been honored in multiple international competitions and is sought for roles that require dramatic passion and sensitive musicality. Originally from Texas, Ms. Vogel now splits her residence between Vienna, Austria, and the Seattle area, Ms. Vogel enjoys frequent engagements with companies in the Pacific Northwest in addition to maintaining her international performing schedule.
Highlights for this season include her second Tosca, in concert with Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra; singing arias and holiday classics with Edmonds' Cascade Symphony on their December Pops concert; and her role premiere as Fricka in Das Rheingold with Tacoma Opera. Ms. Vogel sings and dances with Vien.noir in their original musical Mata Hari: a cabaret of intrigue, and will release an album of verismo arias on the ARIA Classics label, recorded with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra and acclaimed conductor, Jonathan Pasternack.
Education and Apprenticeship
As an Artist and a Professional
Education and Apprenticeship
Ms. Vogel showed promise as a versatile performer early in life, studying piano and ballet in addition to singing in children’s choruses. She went on to receive music degrees from the University of Southern California (BM), studying voice with Elizabeth Hynes, and from Manhattan School of Music (MM), where she studied under some of the na
Ms. Vogel showed promise as a versatile performer early in life, studying piano and ballet in addition to singing in children’s choruses. She went on to receive music degrees from the University of Southern California (BM), studying voice with Elizabeth Hynes, and from Manhattan School of Music (MM), where she studied under some of the nation's top music professionals, including the renowned vocal technician Joan Caplan, her primary voice teacher. Kristin's doctoral studies at the University of Washington culminated in a dissertation on Schubert's little-known opera Fierrabras, with additional specializations in the role of the body and breathing in vocal technique and American song literature.
Ms. Vogel has grown through intensive apprentice programs and study abroad, in addition to her academic education. She performed in high-caliber young artist programs at Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Dicapo Opera (NYC), and the Natchez Festival of Music, where she won the Blackburn-Killelea Award for Most Outstanding Female Young Artist. She was featured in a special Wagner birthday celebration at the American Institute of Music (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. Other outstanding honors include the prize for Acting and Interpretation at the International Competition "Cappuccilli - Patané - Respighi” in Alessandria, Italy, and second place in the Michael Ballam Concorso Lirico International Opera Competition.
As an Artist and a Professional
As an Artist and a Professional
As an Artist and a Professional
As a young professional, Ms. Vogel debuted as Donna Anna with Asheville Lyric Opera in Don Giovanni in 2014. Additional operatic roles include Tosca in Tosca, Mimi in La Boheme, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Marguerite in Faust, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, among many others.
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As a young professional, Ms. Vogel debuted as Donna Anna with Asheville Lyric Opera in Don Giovanni in 2014. Additional operatic roles include Tosca in Tosca, Mimi in La Boheme, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Marguerite in Faust, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, among many others.
Also active on the concert stage, Ms. Vogel has been repeatedly engaged by Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Helena Symphony, Cascade Symphony, Seattle’s “Inverted Space” modern ensemble, and the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra. Other orchestral engagements include Tacoma Symphony, Seattle Festival Orchestra, Northwest Sinfonietta, and the Seattle Chamber Orchestra.
As an artist, Ms. Vogel is known for her musicality, her work ethic, and her congeniality. She believes in making the timeless messages of classic operas resonate with modern audiences through musical and dramatic honesty, and is committed to the advancement of contemporary works.