Soprano Karen Cook, a Tennessee native, is active as a choral artist with ensembles across the country. She sings regularly with the Berwick Chorus of the Oregon Bach Festival, the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus, the Baroque on Beaver Festival, sounding light, Audivi, LancasterChorale, Vox GR, The Union, 21V, Detroit Concert Choir, Beyond, Beyond Chamber Choir, Choral Artists of Michigan, Toledo Opera, Mariners’ Church of Detroit Choir, and Christ Church Grosse Pointe Episcopal Choir. She has also performed with the Taylor Festival Chorus, Tennessee Chamber Chorus, Knoxville Choral Society, Knoxville Chamber Chorale, Knoxville Opera, and the Dallas Choral Festival.

Karen has been featured as a soloist in performances including Bach’s Magnificat, Schubert’s Mass in G, Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate, and McGlynn’s Celtic Mass. She is principal soprano at the Baroque on Beaver Festival where she has performed as soloist in numerous works such as Mozart’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s Christ lag in Todes Banden, and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music. Karen also enjoys performing in the opera chorus and has appeared with Toledo Opera in productions of Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Verdi’s La Traviata, Puccini’s La Bohème, Verdi’s Macbeth, and Barber’s Vanessa; with Knoxville Opera in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s Otello and Il Trovatore, Boito’s Mefistofele, and Puccini’s Tosca; and with Spoleto Festival USA in Barber’s Vanessa and Yuval Sharon’s reimagining of La Bohème.

Highlights of her career include being selected for the Voces8 US Scholars Programme and performing multiple concerts with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in both the US and Europe. Karen earned her Master of Music in Voice Performance from Eastern Michigan University.

Upcoming engagements include the live premier of Beyond Choir, Bach’s Magnificat with LancasterChorale, concerts with VoxGR, Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Detroit Concert Choir, Gounoud’s Roméo et Juliette with Toledo Opera, and Bach’s St. John Passion with sounding light.

Karen lives in Ypsilanti, MI with her husband, Matt, and six other ladies: two dogs, three chickens, and a hedgehog.