Renowned for her versatility and captivating stage presence, Canadian soprano Katy Clark has appeared across North America as a soloist, chorister, teacher, lecturer, and director. She has appeared as a soloist with groups including the Amici Chamber Ensemble, the Kitchener-Waterloo and Windsor Symphonies, Michigan Opera Theatre, and the Elora, Indian River, and Stratford Summer Music Festivals, singing in opera, oratorio, recital, and musical theatre. A specialist in new works, Katy appears as a soloist on the 2022 album A Woman’s Voice, which features the vocal music of Canadian composer Alice Ping Yee Ho. She also appears on numerous albums released by the Elora Singers and Opus 8, and is featured as a soloist on the Elora Singers albums To the Ground from the Sky and In Beauty May I Walk. She is a member of the Elora Singers and of Opus 8, and has sung with the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, and the Canadian Opera Company Chorus.

Katy won the City of Brandon Prize for Best Performance of the Commissioned Work, and placed second overall, in the 2023 Eckhardt-Grammaté National Music Competition. She was the 2019 winner of the Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize in Song, and was a recipient of the 2017/18 Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency through the Royal Conservatory. She was the runner-up in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition, and the winner of the Sheila and Marla Zack Competition.

An active teacher, lecturer, and clinician, Katy holds a DMA from the University of Toronto, where her research focused on regionalism in the operas of Canadian composer John Beckwith and Canadian playwright James Reaney. Katy has taught Foundational Vocal Technique at Laurier University, and Singing and Voice Pedagogy at McMaster University. She gave the 2023 James Reaney Memorial Lecture as part of Wordsfest Creative Arts Festival, and operates an active teaching studio in London, Ontario. She made her directorial debut in 2023 with AlvegoRoot Theatre’s production of the Canadian play february: a love story.