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The American soprano, Keely Futterer, obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in in Voice/Minor in Theater from Arkansas Tech University (2012); and her Masster of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Literature from Eastman School of Music (2014). She is finishing her Doctoral work at the Eastman School of Music, where she studies with Kathryn Cowdrick. She was Studio Artist (2016) and Apprentice Artist (2016) at Opera Saratoga. She also participated in master-class with Renata Scotto Program/Opera in Naples (2017). She won the Trinity UM Collegiate Award, the Encouragement Award at the Arkansas MET auditions, was a semi-finalist at the Midwest Regional MET Auditions (2017), was a two-time finalist at the Tulsa Rotary Crescendo Awards (2012), and was awarded the Little Rock Music Coterie Award. She a finalist for the Jesse Kneisel Lieder Competition at Eastman (2014), and recently won first place in the Friends of Eastman Opera Competition (2016) and 2nd place in Opera Saratoga's Aria Showcase Competition (2015).
Keely Futterer has performed Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's Candide, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance at Arkansas Tech University; Mrs. Fiorentino in Street Scene at Eastman, Elle in La Voix Humaine (2015), Adina in L'elisir d'amore at Opera in the Ozarks (2013), and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. In 2016, she performed Carmela in Mese Mariano, the title role of Suor Angelica, and Countess Almaviva in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with Eastman Opera. She is an alumna of Opera Saratoga’s Young Artist program, where she sang the role of The Witch Mother in the American premiere of Philip Glass’s The Witches of Venice (2016). In 2017, she was part of the New Works Forum in New York City with American Lyric Theatre, premiering the role of Sara Turing in The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, and finished an aria concert as the guest artist with Penfield Symphony Orchestra. In the past year (2017), she covered Renée Fleming for the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ Letters from Georgia, she was the soloist for Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Eastman Philharmonia, and she performed Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. November marked her debut with the Rochester Lyric Opera, performing Isabella Beecher in Mrs. President.
In March 2017, Keely Futterer collaborated with her colleagues in the complete presentation of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), conducted by David Chin. She also sang Magnificat (BWV 243) with Third Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir in Rochester under Peter DuBois; and the Solo Cantata BWV 51 in 2014 with the Eastman School of Music: Bach Cantata Series under Nils Klykken. She currently lives in Rochester, New York. |
