Taylor Caruso Kirk

Taylor Kirk, soprano, is a graduate (Cum laude) of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, and currently studies with Neil Semer. She recently appeared in the role of Linfea, in La Calisto, with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, this past summer. She was a 2017 finalist in the Career Bridges Grant Competition, the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg International Voice Competition and the 2016 Mario Lanza and Elaine Malbin competition. She made her dell’Arte Opera debut as Poussette in Manon, and Bianca in La Rondine. Having a great passion for art song repertoire, she participated in the Art Song Preservation Society’s “Spring Into Song” program, with both Thomas Grubb (Poulenc) and Frank Daykin (Debussy). She has performed the roles of Micaëla in Carmen and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with the Purchase Opera. She has performed solo concerts with the Westchester Korean Choral Society and the National Repertory Orchestra. She appears on Purchase Opera’s recording of Lee Hoiby’s The Tempest, and participated in the world premiere of Paul Lustig Dunkel’s Casey at the Bat. She was Frontier Airlines’ New Artist of the West, upon the release of her debut album, Simple Gifts. She was a special guest artist performing “Somewhere” with Steph Carse on PBS, and was also signed to Sony Classical.