About the​ artists

Katherine Wessinger soprano

Praised by The New York Times as a soprano with a “genuinely angelic voice,” soprano Katherine Wessinger brings freshness and uncommon musicality to a wide repertoire on the concert, opera, and recital stage, and as as studio musician. Having performed domestically and abroad, Katherine is a regular soloist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, both for services and as a member of the Saint Andrew Music Society. Katherine has also sung as as soloist for Sacred Music in a Sacred Space (SMSS,) Canticum Novum, the American Classical Orchestra and, most dramatically, made her Carnegie Hall debut stepping in on one day’s notice to sing Gabriel in Haydn’s Creation with the New York Virtuoso Singers and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. 

Katherine can be heard on the soundtracks for Noah, Zoolander 2, White Noise, and the Amazon Prime TV show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and can be seen on HBO’s upcoming season of The Gilded Age. She is on the first complete recording of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Allegro, and she is featured on Kevin Keller’s latest album, Evensong.

For more information on Ms. Matheson, please visit katherinewessinger.com

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Rod Gomez baritone

Baritone Rod Gomez most recently appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall as Die Bote in Richard Strauss’s Guntram. He has appeared with the opera companies of Manila, Glimmerglass, Sacramento, Utah Festival, San Diego, Nevada, West Bay, and Opera Pacific and also has extensive solo concert credits with the American Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Berkeley Symphony, Sacramento Symphony, the Little Orchestra Society and the Verbier Music Festival at venues such as Avery Fisher Hall, Davies Symphony Hall and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, among others. He performed the world premiere of Ionel Petroi’s Les Melodies de Sancho Pança at the Other Minds New Music Festival, and the title roles in Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Britten’s Noye’s Fludde and Billy Budd. Other New York-area performances include: Carmina Burana (National Chorale/Avery Fisher Hall); Requiem (Brahms and Faure) and Hodie (Vaughan Williams) both with the Saint Andrew Music Society; Michele in Puccini’s Il Tabarro (Taconic Opera); Tonio in I Pagliacci (Pocket Opera NY); Schumann’s Das Paradis und die Peri, Luigi Nono’s Epitaffi, and Maugiron in Chabrier’s Le Roi Malgre Lui (all with American Symphony Orchestra), Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale (One World Symphony/Great Concerts for a Great City Concert Series), Brubek’s Earth is our Mother (the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music), and Alfano’s Risurrezione (Teatro Grattacielo). He has been awarded prizes from the Metropolitan Opera National Council and the Los Angeles Music Center, among others. Maintaining an active stage directing career, he  recently staged the New York Premiere of Juana (Carla Lucero) with the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble and continues a proud relationship with Opera Essentia bringing under-reached communities Handel’s operatic masterpieces.