Praised as “vocally and dramatically powerful” by the Washington Post and \u201cradiant\u201d by the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, soprano Linh Kauffman enjoys an active career in opera, oratorio, new music and recital. Her recent performances include Orff\u2019s Carmina Burana for the Prague Choral Festival, Carmina Burana and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Minnesota Orchestra, Ariadne auf Naxos with Minnesota Opera, Handel\u2019s Acis and Galatea for Antiqva Panama\u0301, and appearances at Festival Musica Antica Urbino, Festival Musica Antigua Panama\u0301, and Festival Musique en l\u2019I\u0302le de Paris. A prolific concert artist, Ms. Kauffman has also appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Akron Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Quad City Symphony, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She has been a festival artist at the Oregon Bach Festival, soloing under Helmuth Rilling in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach\u2019s Mass in B Minor, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Haydn’s Heiligmesse and throughout a tour of Germany with Festival Ensemble Stuttgart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Kauffman made her Latin American debut in Mozart\u2019s Apollo et Hyacinthus at the Teatro Nacional de Panama\u0301. Other appearances include Esther with Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Mitridate for Metamorphosis Opera Theater, Pocahontas: Woman of Two Worlds for Duluth Festival Opera and West Side Story with Sierra Repertory Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An active chamber musician of both early and contemporary music, Kauffman has appeared with Seraphic Fire, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Consortium Carissimi, The Rose Ensemble, and Piffaro. A native of Connecticut, Ms. Kauffman earned music degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland, and University of Minnesota where she completed her Doctorate and Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy. She also studied at the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall and the Salzburg Mozarteum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She teaches at Macalester College, is Associate Artistic Director of Antiqva Panama\u0301 and serves on the Artistic Committee of the Minnesota Bach Ensemble.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":368,"template":"","class_list":["post-2287","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2287\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}