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Diane Kalinowski

Instructor, Voice

Contact Information

OFFICE: D'Angelo 18
PHONE: 814-824-2637

Diane Kalinowski has been described as an artist that “stands out, possessing an enormous voice of fine quality” (Patrick C. Byrne; Belgian Opera Guide). A graduate of the Mercyhurst University voice performance program, Ms. Kalinowski is pleased to be back at Mercyhurst as an instructor. She holds a Master of Music in Opera from the University of Kansas where she was an apprentice with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. 

Ms. Kalinowski has performed the title role in Tosca, as well as the roles of Marguerite in an adaptation of Faust, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, the New Prioress in Dialogues of the Carmelites, the title role in Suor Angelica, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Frasquita in Carmen, and Yum Yum in The Mikado. She has performed in opera houses around the country including Opera Connecticut, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Annapolis Opera, New Jersey State Opera, and Rochester Lyric Opera, among others.

No stranger to the concert stage, Ms. Kalinowski has performed numerous scenes and arias from Madama Butterfly, Norma, La Forza del Destino, Aida, Boito’s Mefistofele, Der Rosenkavalier, and Così fan tutte. She has been the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, the Poulenc Gloria, the Mozart Requiem, and the Vivaldi Gloria, as well as Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Kalinowski is the recipient of numerous awards including the Top 3 of 9 possible awards at the Annapolis Opera Voice Competition; Top Prize in the American Opera Idol Competition at Opera Connecticut; Top Prize in the NH Opera Idol Competition, and Grand Prize in the LaDue Professional Recital Competition at Rochester Lyric Opera.  She was selected as one of five finalists in the inaugural Elizabeth Connell Prize, an international competition for aspiring dramatic sopranos, in conjunction with the Joan Sutherland/Richard Bonynge Foundation, in Sydney, Australia.