ANNE-KATHRYN OLSEN (soprano) is a versatile singer with a passion for historical performance practice. She recently made her European concert debut touring Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, and Hungary as a soloist with the Desert Spring Chorale, performing Mozart's Credo Mass with conductor Janos Czifra at the Salzburger Dom. This summer she participated in the Tafelmusik Summer Baroque Institute in Toronto, Canada where she was a soloist in Charpentier's Messe des Morts under the baton of Ivars Taurins. Ms. Olsen has performed as a soloist with the Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Ballet, American Bach Phoenix, Phoenix Early Music Society, Arizona State Baroque Ensemble, and with Stephen Stubbs at the Academy of Baroque Opera in Seattle. Locally she has appeared with Voices of Music (as a winner of their Young Artist Competition,) San Francisco Choral Artists, Oakland Civic Orchestra, Opera San Jose, and in the Starlite Vineyard Chamber Music Series. Ms. Olsen's operatic credits include Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and Oberto in Alcina with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Baroque Ensemble, as well as Lucy in Telephone and The Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel. She is a member of Liaison, a small chamber group specializing in French baroque repertoire. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the Herberger School of Fine Arts at Arizona State University and a Master's degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music.