Meredith Monk Workshop Leader
Katie Geissinger has been performing with Meredith Monk since 1990, in concert and theater works including ATLAS (Houston Grand Opera, ECM), The Politics of Quiet (BESSIE winner), WEAVE (St. Louis Symphony), the GRAMMY-nominated impermanence, and most recently Indra's Net at the Holland Festival and the Park Avenue Armory. Geissinger premiered Bang on a Can’s OBIE Award-winning The Carbon Copy Building (Cantaloupe) and performed in the second world tour of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach (Elektra Nonesuch). She appeared in Jonathan Miller’s staged productions of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Julia Wolfe and Anne Bogart’s Steel Hammer, and Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians with Bang on a Can at BAM, in John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple at Lincoln Center, in Honegger’s Le Roi David under Kent Tritle at Carnegie Hall, in Pam Tanowitz and David Lang’s Song of Songs at City Center and the Barbican, and in Ann Hamilton’s the event of a thread, with music by David Lang, at the Park Avenue Armory. Geissinger’s Broadway credits include Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Boheme and Coram Boy, and she has appeared off-Broadway in many Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. She has premiered many new music theater pieces, including works by Ben Katchor, John Kelly, Marisa Michelson, Philip Miller, Mark Mulcahy, and Aaron Siegel. Geissinger has sung on soundtracks including The Big Lebowski, Joker, and The Gilded Age, and has taught Meredith Monk workshops in Estonia, Sao Paulo, San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, Lisbon and Vilnius.
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