Kate Soper

Kate Soper, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2017, has cultivated a career that includes composition, performance, education, and ensemble management. Soper was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1981, and first studied piano pedagogy at the University of Michigan there. She went on for a master's degree at Rice University and a D.M.A. at Columbia University. Soper has received prestigious awards and fellowships including those from the Guggenheim Foundation (resulting in the composition of the 2012 opera Here Be Sirens), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the...