In concert Miss Kierstine has appeared as guest soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic in Mozart's `Great' Mass in C, Handel's Messiah, and the Brahms German Requiem, with New York's Albany-Pro Musica in the Verdi Requiem, with the Pensacola Symphony as soprano soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and with the Colorado Symphony in Messiah. Miss Kierstine made her international debut in an all-Verdi program with the Orquestra Filarmonica de Lima.
As a distinguished advocate of contemporary music, Miss Kierstine has sung numerous times with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, performing the critically acclaimed cycle Canti lunatici by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands.
Miss Kierstine is a past Metropolitan Auditions National Finalist and winner of the Center for Contemporary Opera International Vocal Competition, under whose sponsorship she made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.
7 Oct 2002