Kimberly Gelbwasser

Soprano Kimberly Gelbwasser recently graduated with her Doctorate in Vocal Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). During the 2009-2010 academic year, Kimberly served as Visiting Professor of Voice at the University of North Florida. As a soloist, Kimberly most recently appeared in concert with the Coastal Symphony of Georgia as well as in recital at Cañada College in California. Kimberly’s operatic roles include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Despina in Così fan tutte, and her concert repertoire includes Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Kimberly has promoted twentieth-century music through her vocal chamber music performances at various festivals. At the Grandin Festival, she was featured as a soloist in Bright Sheng’s Three Chinese Love Songs, coached by Warren Jones. With the contemporary ensemble, Café MoMus, she performed Reich’s Tehillim, and with summer festival, Music X, she performed Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians for the composer himself. Kimberly has spent numerous summers studying and singing abroad. During the summer of 2009, she received a Mercer Scholarship from CCM as well as a scholarship from the Università per Stranieri to study Italian at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy. Two summers prior, she attended the Goethe Institute in Freiburg, Germany, where she received her Zertifikat Deutsch (German Certificate). While Kimberly is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kimberly continues to serve as High Holy Days Cantorial Soloist at Temple Sholom in Cincinnati.