Katrina conducts Inversion’s treble chorus Da Capo in a concert that centers diaspora, the communities that shape us, and the hope of belonging. She shares the podium with Inversion Artistic Director Trevor Shaw who conducts the Inversion family of ensembles. Purchase your tickets here.

Katrina sings a concert with VAMP at the Austin Community College where they will be presenting works that highlight the different voices of women then and now. More details here.

Presence is the heart of our season.

The culmination of a yearlong collaboration, Presence features music by ACG’s 23-24 Artist-in-Residence and Grammy-nominated composer Reena Esmail, and performances by the extraordinary Mexican guitarist Dieter Hennings, Austin’s super-creative and genre-bending vocal ensemble VAMP, and critically acclaimed bassoonist and UT Butler School faculty member Kristin Wolfe Jensen.  

These internationally celebrated artists will be joined by a massive guitar orchestra, conducted by ACG Artistic Director Joe Williams on stage at the gorgeous AISD Performing Arts Center. 

With premieres of music written by Reena Esmail and our community, Presence is a celebration of now and our shared experience.  Join us for this unforgettable evening! 

Tickets at this link.

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The Austin Civic Orchestra partners again with The University of Texas at Austin for the 10th Texas Rising Stars concert at Bates Recital Hall. The winners of the Butler School of Music’s String Concerto Competition perform concerti accompanied by the orchestra.

This collaborative concert between the Butler School of Music and Austin Civic Orchestra was conceived by UT professor Brian Lewis and is funded in part by the David and Mary Winton Green Chair in String Performance and Pedagogy.

This concert is free – a gift to the Austin community.  

Full program:

• Concerti, TBA

• Holst:  The Planets (selections) with interludes composed by Laura Mercado-Wright and performed by VAMP Vocals.

Katrina conducts Inversion’s youth choir, Nova, in Zoology, in its second-ever program, Zoology, where they perform new music from Inversion co-founders Adrienne Inglis, Robbie LaBanca and Trevor Shaw, among several others.

Katrina performs with pianist Benjamin Dia and trumpeter Kenken Gorder in Don’t Blink! featuring the music of Michael Flynn, Susan Kander, Steven Sérpa, and others.

Tickets available here.

KMFA’s Fall Offbeat Series include VAMP on September 8 & 9, 2023. The performance series by KMFA highlights ensembles contributing to Austin’s vibrant contemporary classical music scene using KMFA’s beautiful Draylen Mason Music Studio. Through the Offbeat Series, KMFA hopes to reach not only existing fans, but also cultivate a new audience for these exciting contemporary works. Tickets at vampoffbeat.planningpod.com

KMFA’s Fall Offbeat Series include VAMP on September 8 & 9, 2023. The performance series by KMFA highlights ensembles contributing to Austin’s vibrant contemporary classical music scene using KMFA’s beautiful Draylen Mason Music Studio. Through the Offbeat Series, KMFA hopes to reach not only existing fans, but also cultivate a new audience for these exciting contemporary works. Tickets at vampoffbeat.planningpod.com

Katrina will be singing with VAMP at Here Be Monsters: 15 performances including 11 world premieres by Austin composers featuring: Invoke, Montopolis, Kraken Quartet, Density512, Golden Hornet, LOLA, One Ounce Opera, Convergence, Goliath Was Bigfoot, Tom Echols, Less Than <10 Music, Nathan Felix, Studio A, and Tetractys New Music.

Designed to reveal and celebrate the unique culture and identity of Austin's music creators

Saturday, May 27, 2023, 5 - 10pm at Butterfly Bar, 2307 Manor Rd., Austin, TX 78702

As part of VAMP, Katrina will be singing at Page Stephens’ Doctoral Recital at the University of Texas at Austin. Lecture will discuss the importance of including new music (20th- and 21st-century) more intentionally in vocal pedagogy. Music to include works by Laura Mercado-Wright, Matthew Lyons, Mark Kilstofte, and Russell Podgorsek. Other performers electric guitarist Matthew Lyons, and pianist James Maverick.

Katrina is taking part in her first unofficial SXSW showcase at KMFA Classical’s Contemporary Day Party, March 11th, 2023! Her performances include:

• Panoramic Voices at 2:45 - singing and conducting

• VAMP at 4:48 - singing

• Inversion Ensemble at 5:50pm - singing and conducting

The event is free.

Katrina is one of the conductors for Borderland, an innovative choral experience featuring a premiere work by local composer Nathan Felix called “Austin Border Stories.” Commissioned by Panoramic Voices, this full-length, immersive choral piece is inspired by Hispanic history. It is “about borders and border stories… immigration stories from Mexico into Texas and Austin,” says the composer. Singers will be scattered across KMFA’s stunning new east side building, sharing vignettes in different installations throughout the entire space. Audiences can expect an experience akin to visiting a museum, while enjoying powerful opening and closing pieces that bring the choir together.    

Purchase tickets here.

Katrina sings the music of Strauss, Puccini, and Grainger. Composer and pianist Andrew Grainger, along with cellist Annette Eicker, and pianist Benjamin Dia

VAMP is a vocal quintet of formidable female artists touting a motley songbook and a bold red lip. This will be the quintet's very  first concert open to the public!

Tickets here!

Katrina sings with the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra in their online concert “Opera Eksena”.

April 29 @ 7pm Philippine Time • April 29 @ 6am CDT • April 29 @ 7am EDT

Katrina is thrilled to perform the world premiere of solo music by Austin composers Suzette Emberton, Andrew Grainger, Adrienne Inglis, Robbie LaBanca, Steven Sérpa, Trevor Willwock in this inaugural recital series by Inversion Ensemble.

April 9, 7:30 pm at KMFA Studios

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atmósfera3 by Brent Baldwin: Composed in 2020 for soprano Katrina Saporsantos, electronic instruments, piano, and mixed chorus, atmósfera3 is a sonic triptych that dances between the elements of light and shade. Conceived as a lamentation for those tragically lost to COVID this past year, Baldwin interweaves gentle modal solo lines among plaintive choral textures, electronic instruments (synthesizers, prepared guitars, and electrified bicycle wheel), and plucked piano strings (performed by Benjamin Dia). The dance collective ARCOS will visually dramatize the swirling sonic elements.

Tickets at https://www.panoramicvoices.org/

Katrina is proud to be one of the featured soloists of Inversion Ensemble’s Stigma: Songs of the Forgotten.

Inversion proudly presents Stigma: Songs of the Forgotten an online concert presentation.

Join us this Pride month for a powerful concert exploring the past, present, and future of the LGBTQIA+ experience. This concert features the world premiere of Steven Sérpa's dramatic oratorio, james (book of ruth). With a libretto by Zac Kline, this allegory of the late 20th century HIV/AIDS epidemic emphasizes strong themes of love, loss, and forgiveness still relevant today. Sam Kreidenweis (Baritone) plays James, a young male facing a new HIV diagnosis and the social, familial, and religious persecution it brings. His mother, sung by Mary Kettlewell (Soprano), denies James the love and compassion he needs as he watches his partner fall ill and pass away, but Ruth—an amalgam of activist Ruth Coker Burks and the biblical Ruth— sung by Katrina Saporsantos (Soprano), offers the kindness and understanding that those closest to James fail to show.
Additionally, Inversion explores the past and present of the LGBTQIA+ experience with “Pink” by Germán Barboza, inspired by the persecution and murder of LGBTQIA+ individuals during the holocaust, and “Transpose” by Robbie LaBanca, based on texts by transgender and gender non-conforming poets who explore the epidemic of violence against their community today.

Inversion was thrilled to safely congregate as an ensemble for this poignant program after a long year of virtual projects. Stigma was filmed and recorded in KMFA’s Draylen Mason Music Studio! We are also proud to have collaborated with various local and nationally-based instrumentalists, including Spectrum Ensemble.

The video for this performance will remain on YouTube until Monday, July 5th, and can be accessed from the same link that will be provided.

Please join us on Friday, June 25 at 7:00 pm for Stigma: Songs of the Forgotten.

Purchase tickets here.

In March of 2020, right before live events around the world shut down due to the pandemic, Katrina recorded the chamber opera Öcalan by Nathan Felix alongside local Austin musicians. This is the album release of Öcalan.

Katrina Saporsantos and Benjamin Dia perform a program entitled Divine Decadence, with songs by Britten, Schoenberg, Satie, Weill, Bolcom, and more. This house concert is presented by Panoramic Voices.

EVENT POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE DUE TO COVID-19.

Blanton’s first Third Thursday of the decade features Keep Composers Weird - a residency program hosted by composer, Nathan Felix, for emerging composers held in Austin, providing an opportunity for selected composers from around the world to spend a week in Austin rehearsing, recording and premiering a live rendition of new music compositions.

Katrina performs the solo soprano version of Felix’s “Love Song for Anita” from Neon Heaven, and his haunting and poignant song “Kosovo” as part of the event.

Celebrate the season and usher in the new year with Music, Friends, Joy, and Beer! Join us on December 26th at 8pm for the 4th annual LOLA at 4th Tap Holiday Spectacular!

Performances by Graham Reynolds, Liz Cass, Brent Baldwin, Carolyn Höhle, Julia Watkins-Davis, Graham Yates, Cindy Sadler, Jim James, Jeremy Osborne, Jeffrey Jones Ragona, Benjamin Dia, and more!

Tickets at $10.

Katrina sings a mini-recital with pianist Benjamin Dia featuring songs by Strauss, Wagner, Reger, Moraeus, Gordon.

Katrina performs with cellist Annette Eicker, and pianists Benjamin Dia and Andrew Grainger

WORLD PREMIERE! Alien Wanderers : Alien World : Alien Home - an opera focused around the exhibition at the Blanton entitled Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders.

Nathan Felix, composer

Trevor Shaw, conductor

Katrina Saporsantos, narrator

→ More information on the event here.

Katrina performs with pianist Benjamin Dia at Westminster Manor in Austin, TX