Member
Brunswick, Maine
Website:
https://schwalbeandpartners.com/michele-kennedy-soprano
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Early Music Skills & Interests
Voice - Soprano
Early Music Affiliations
Advocate, Educator, Performer
Biography
Praised as “an excellent and impassioned” soprano possessing "a graceful tonal clarity that is a wonder to hear" (San Francisco Chronicle), MICHELE KENNEDY is a versatile specialist in early and new music. Her recent concert venues include Carnegie Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, The Getty Museum, Lincoln Center, and Washington National Cathedral. She is the Winner of the 2025 Berlin Classical Music Competition and the 2023 American Prize in Voice.
In high demand across the country, Michele has been a featured soloist in Bach’s St. John Passion with Voices of Music and The San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with Washington Bach Consort, Handel’s Messiah with Trinity Wall Street Choir, Poulenc’s Gloria and Handel’s Messiah with The Bach Society of Saint Louis, Bach's Magnificat with Portland Baroque Orchestra, and in her Carnegie Hall mainstage debut with The Hollywood Film Orchestra. Her singing is highlighted on a new recording of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with The Thirteen and Dark Horse Consort, and in her solo debut album with AGAVE – called In Her Hands – showcasing an extraordinary range of female composers from over the ages, from Barbara Strozzi and Pauline Viardot to Florence Price and Margaret Bonds.
A lifelong advocate of new works, Michele has sung premieres with Seraphic Fire, Experiments in Opera, Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble, The Crossing Choir, and The New York Philharmonic. She joins Lorelei Ensemble in an ongoing world premiere tour of Julia Wolfe’s Her Story – an outspoken celebration of women’s civil rights – in concert with the Nashville, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. Most recently, she returned to Carnegie Hall as a soloist in Dan Forrest's Requiem for the Living – truly a piece for our time.
Michele completed her musical studies at Yale University, Yale School of Music, and New York University. A lover of redwood groves and bay vistas, she lives with her husband, visual artist Benjamin Thorpe, and their daughter, Audra May. Please find more at www.michele-kennedy.com.
