Catherine Psarakis actively performs with orchestras and chamber groups in the US and internationally. Catherine’s title operatic roles include Cunegonde Bernstein’s Candide, and The Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and she has a great interest in premiering new opera by living composers, including her performance as a title role in Jacob Shulman’s Role Playing Game. Catherine made her oratorio debut in 2017 as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Messiah Choral Society in Orlando, FL, and in 2022 made her Carnegie Hall debut in the Weill Recital Hall.  Recently, Catherine has performed concerts as soprano soloist with the Bach Festival Vocal Artists in Winter Park, FL, as well as with the Burbank Philharmonic in Los Angeles, CA. She began a musical relationship with Capella Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany and has since performed the soprano solo in Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, and will perform Schumann and Brahms duett selections in Summer 2024. Catherine received her B.A. in Chemistry and Music from Rollins College on a full merit scholarship, and her M.M. in Voice and Opera from the New England Conservatory of Music. She is a first-place winner of the Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition and Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition, and finalist of the International Brahms Competition.