Kristin E T Dauphinais

Biography

Mezzo-soprano Kristin Dauphinais is highly regarded for her artistry and versatility. She has worked in a variety of genres including musical theatre, opera, concert, oratorio, chamber music and solo recitals. Her performing career has taken her throughout United States as well as internationally with orchestras such as Orchestra Sinfonica Nova Amadeus in Rome and Florence, Orchestra Accademia Vivaldiana in Venice, Australia’s Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, The Canberra Choral Society and a concert tour of China as the soloist with the Southern Arizona Symphony. Recent national concert performances for Dr. Dauphinais include Manuel de Falla's Siete canciones populares Españolas, El amor brujo and Messiah with the Tucson Symphony, El sombrero de tres picos and El amor brujo with the Phoenix Symphony, Alban Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, El amor brujo with the Catalina Chamber Orchestra, Easy to Love - a program of the works of Richard Rogers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern with the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate with the Apperson Strings and again with the Cadillac Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist Dr. Dauphinais has performed song and operatic repertoire in the accross the United States and in Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, and Spain and has premiered works by Randall Shinn and Ken LaFave. On the operatic stage, her recent roles include Dorabella in Così fan Tutte, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, the title role in Handel’s Xerxes and the role of Ottone in the American professional premiere of Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa for the 2007 Arizona Vivaldi Festival. Dr. Dauphinais holds a BFA from Western Michigan University and her MM and DMA from Arizona State University. She recently served on the voice faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria and is currently on the faculties of The Unversity of Arizona and the Saarburger Serenaden-International Chamber Music Festival.

More:

• More information on Kristin Dauphinais
• Voice Area web site

Degrees

• D.M.A. Vocal Performance
• Arizona State University
• M.M. Vocal Performance and Pedagogy
• Arizona State University
• B.F.A. Musical Theatre Performance
• Western Michigan University

Awards

• The Roy A. & Stardust K Johnson Faculty Mentoring Award
• Arizona Arts, Spring 2025