by Richard Gray
At St. John’s, we are fortunate to have eight professional staff singers who serve as leaders within our choir. The combination of their musical skills, reliability, and spirit raises the quality of the music that we offer and contributes to creating a supportive and collaborative environment. In the coming months, we will feature brief bios of our staff singers so our congregation can come to know even more about these wonderful leaders within our music ministry.
Katie Boardman is in her second year with us as a soprano staff singer. She is a sensitive performer of music both centuries old and brand new. Twin Cities solo appearances include the Mozart Requiem and Bach cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with the Bach Society of MN, the Poulenc Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, and the Fauré Requiem. She sings regularly with VocalEssence, and has performed with the Minnesota Chorale, the Rose Ensemble, and the Boston Camerata. She appears on the PaTRAM Institute Singers’ GRAMMY-nominated recording of Kurt Sander’s Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and was a VOCES8 Scholar in 2019-20. A native of Wisconsin, she grew to love early music at the Madison Early Music Festival and holds an M.M. degree in Historical Performance from Boston University. She maintains an active voice teaching studio in St. Paul, MN.
