Catherine Mae Cronin
Soprano

• The Choral Arts Society of Washington; member since 1997, performing a great variety of choral and operatic works ranging from early Renaissance to contemporary, and touring to music festivals in Jackson, Wyoming and Spoleto, Italy. Often selected to participate in additional reduced-chorus or solo performances at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, embassy residences and the White House. These solo and reduced-chorus performances have also been broadcast on television news programs, WETA radio, and featured on NBC's drama, "The West Wing."



• St. Alban's Senior Choir; member of this all-professional, 20-member choir since 1999, performing a cappella as well as accompanied sacred pieces from a great range of time periods.

• Beethoven, Ludwig van; Bundesleid; Kennedy Center Concert Hall
• Corigliano, John; Symphony No. 2, A Dylan Thomas Trilogy; world premiere; Kennedy Center Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall, with the National Symphony Orchestra
• Fissinger, (arr.); Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? (with the Virginia All-State Chorus, Bristol, Virginia)
• Ireland, John; Greater Love Hath No Man; Kennedy Center Concert Hall
• Stravinsky, Igor; Mass; Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (with reduced chorus)
• Thomas, Augusta Read; Ring out wild bells, to the wild sky; world premiere; Kennedy Center Concert Hall
• Vaughan Williams, Ralph; Magnificat (with the Virginia Women's Chorus, Charlottesville, Virginia)

• Adamo, Mark; Cantate Domino (world premiere, CASW commission)
• Bach, Johann Sebastian; Mass in B Minor; St. John Passion
• Barber, Samuel; The Prayers of Kirkegaard
• Beethoven, Ludwig van; Choral Fantasy and final choral movement from Symphony No. 9 (with the National Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw, conductor)
• Borodin, Aleksandr; Polovetsian Dances (Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy)
• Britten, Benjamin; Cantata Misericordium
• Glass, Philip; Symphony No. 5 (Requiem, Bardo and Nirmanakaya)
• Haydn, Joseph; Autumn and Spring (from The Seasons)
• Hoiby, Lee; Dramatic Choruses from Romeo and Juliet (world premiere, CASW commission)
• Janácek, Leos; Glagolitic Mass (Washington premiere of restored version, with the National Symphony Orchestra)
• Mahler, Gustav; Symphony No. 8: Symphony of a Thousand
• Mendelssohn, Felix; Walpurgisnacht (Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy)
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Requiem (also performed at the Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy); La clemenza di Tito (concert performance with reduced chorus for the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Mozart Festival, Christopher Hogwood, conductor)
• Pärt, Arvo; Cantate Domino and Magnificat (Grand Teton Music Festival, Jackson Hole, Wyoming)
• Poulenc, Francis; Gloria
• Puccini, Giacomo; selections from Turandot
• Rachmaninoff, Sergey; The Bells
• Stravinsky, Igor; Symphony of Psalms
• Vaughan Williams, Ralph; A Sea Symphony
• Verdi, Giuseppe; Requiem (with the National Symphony Orchestra, 1997 (Wolf Trap's Filene Center) and 2000; and at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 2000)

• Currently studying voice with Martha Ellison
• Member of the Virginia Women's Chorus, Charlottesville, Virginia (1994-1996)
• Member, musical director and arranger for a cappella pop group The New Dominions, Charlottesville, Virginia (1992-1996). My arrangements for this 15-member, co-ed ensemble included "Love Shack," (the B-52's), "Take a Chance on Me," (ABBA), "Big Time," (Peter Gabriel), "Kid Fears," (Indigo Girls), and others. This group produced three full-length recordings during my membership, and travelled occasionally to perform at other colleges on the east coast.
• Played the role of Tuptim in the Annandale High School production of The King and I
• Violin, 8 years private, orchestral, and string quartet study
• Selected to attend the Virginia Governor's School for Music, 1991

• B.A., The University of Virginia, 1996
• Annandale High School, 1992