Katherine Calcamuggio Donner  is an award-winning mezzo-soprano who has been featured in important role  and company debuts across the United States, eliciting kudos for her  “soaring, rich voice” ( The Miami Herald ), her “polished musical and dramatic characterizations” ( Kurt Weill Newsletter ) and her “fine coloratura technique” ( Philadelphia Inquirer) .

Equally at home on the operatic, concert and recitals stages, she has a diversified performing portfolio, however, favorite roles and works include the comic and light-hearted operatic roles of Buttercup in  HMS Pinafore  (Union Avenue Opera), Julia Child in  Bon Appetit!  (Opera Lynchburg), Hansel in  Hansel and Gretl  (Syracuse Opera) to the more serious concert roles of the mezzo-soprano soloist in Verdi’s  Requiem , Beethoven’s  Ninth Symphony , and performing the soprano soloist in John Corigliano’s  Mr. Tambourine  with eighth blackbird. As an active recitalist, she has travelled across the United States with the Piatigorsky Foundation, performing nearly one-hundred recitals over the last ten years.